Kortni’s Kitchen: Prickly Pear Cupcakes!
I have been experimenting with new ingredients. This week I worked with prickly pear, or cactus. Most people don’t know you can eat some…
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Book Review: The Elements of Eloquence by Mark Forsyth
Which sounds better? An obnoxious, little old circular red European paper flying kite Or… An obnoxious, old little European red flying circular paper kite…
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Paris, Anselm Keifer, Musée Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou
View: Paris mid-April from Centre Pompidou. Going up. Mid-April in Paris, during its last days, I was fortunate to see the retrospective exposition of the…
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Kortni’s Kitchen: Carrots
The other day while I was watching Movable Feast, the host mentioned these delectable carrots he makes. They looked so good, I just had to try…
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Perth Students “Fix, Freeze, Feast, Fiesta”
The new ‘do it yourself’ approach to free food in Perth, where a little goes a long way.
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Kortni’s Kitchen: Madeleines
Madeleines have always been one of my favorite cookies. It is like eating tiny cakes, even the batter is similar to a sponge cake batter!…
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Pasadena Film Flash! Florence & The Uffizi Gallery, 4.25 & 4.26, at the Laemmle
This next week on Monday night at 7:30pm and Tuesday at 1pm, there is to be a special showing of a new film, “Florence…
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Kortni’s Kitchen: Ravioli
Like the old adage, “When in Rome do as the Romans do.” Unfortunately, the only time I was in Rome I had the pizza,…
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Cinema Review: The Good Lie
The Good Lie is a film about the Sudanese refugees that came to America in the early 2000’s. Although this is a work of…
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April and the Extraordinary World – A Film Review
Do you remember the first time you rode Space Mountain at Disneyland? If you haven’t ridden, it’s a roller coaster enclosed in a dimly-lit…
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Kortni’s Kitchen: Bundt Cake
When I was young my mom would make my birthday cake every year, and she was amazing at it. You know the ones you…
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – Kathryn Andrews: Run for President!
On a snowy Chicago day in April (!) I was fortunate to stumble into a timely exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art…
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