From the monthly archives:

March 2009

I have a temptation, whenever I come across an easy recipe like this, to add, embellish and play with it until it’s no longer simple. When I saw this noodles-and-broth recipe in the New York Times last week, I immediately thought how great it would be with some steamed bok choy or shrimp or leftover [...]

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So you’ve all heard the news by now? Sad. But, though the others weren’t made public, Aniston and Mayer’s union wasn’t the only one to be undone by e-indiscretions. The real reasons behind some other celebrity splits:
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Lopez was enraged by Affleck’s juvenile adoption of the tabloid nickname “bennifer” as his password [...]

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Friday Quickies, Vol. 8

by eliz on March 27, 2009

1. A few weeks ago I was stopped in my tracks at the grocery store by the cover photo of Julia Louis-Dreyfus on Shape magazine (and admiring Michelle Obama’s guns, too), and now it’s Valerie Bertinelli, also 48, who has me in awe on the cover of People. And in Allure magazine, wearing only soap suds, is 43-year-old Cindy Crawford.
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