Perfect Guacamole Whether you’re plotting your Easter menu, planning a bridal shower brunch for the upcoming wedding season [insert collective groan here] or need to create a Mother’s Day menu, spring flavors are in the air – and beginning to work their way into our kitchens. While there is no substitute for farmer’s market asparagus [...]

Working in public relations is tricky. Sometimes you find yourself working for a client whose product or service you don’t necessarily align with or believe in (for example: one of my first clients’ had a line of lingerie for plus-sized women that was sold in WalMart. Was I the target demographic? Not quite). However, sometimes [...]

The first time I drank alcohol (you know…on my twenty-first birthday…) I drank Kahlua. I was with three of my girlfriends at a sleepover that was not so much different from the other sleepovers that we had in high school where we would eat junk food, watch movies and talk about the boys we liked. [...]

  There were some foods that I just didn't like as a child but in recent years, have developed a taste for. Olives are one of those foods. I used to pick them off vegetable pizza and eat around them in sauces or stews but lately, I've begun to embrace the sharp, salty flavor of [...]