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Waverly Inn in New York City is quickly becoming the Studio 54 of its time. Anyone who is anyone seems to make an appearance at the restaurant, especially if they are a celebrity with a movie coming out or want to rejuvenate their career. Broadway actress Bernadette Peters showed up the other night [...]

Bored with your favorite restaurant these days? There’s a man named Michael Hebberoy out in Oregon who knows your pain. But rather than sit around the kitchen table and kvetch about the problem, he stuck his finger in the burner and created a dinner concept designed to invigorate the soul while nourishing the belly. He [...]

Knowing whether a new product or service causes cancer requires years of use before drawing any conclusions. When a company introduces a new product, especially a food product, they are required to demonstrate there is no obvious link between the product and harmful effects. A new product, though, introduces elements that a company may have [...]

A superhero by nature performs without much choice in whether she wants to place her life in jeopardy or not. Instinct rules the mind and propels the body into action against the badass villains. In the case of a Vietnamese grandmother, reduced “school dinner services and cutting down on food portions” tipped the scales of [...]

Senior citizens living in Albany, New York rejoice! There is an organization designed to cater to your needs as you grow older. Senior Services of Albany offers the following:
* Adult Day Care
* Caregiver Connection
* Community Dining
* ElderSource Line
* Enrichment Programs
* Meals on Wheels
* Shopping Assistance & Visits
* Transportation
* Volunteer Services
Senior Services of Albany
25 Delaware Ave
Albany, [...]

Growing older usually means losing the ability to perform all your daily living functions with the same energy and enthusiasm that once existed. The thought of getting in the car to drive to the grocery store, for example, can be a logistical nightmare for someone who has poor vision, arthritis, or worse, early dementia. Fortunately [...]

Looking for a good goulash recipe? Check out Annerloo’s short video that documents a meal with her grandfather. Someone commented that the goulash is too pale and needs a touch of paprika. We kind of like the paintings on the wall. Just the right touch of music, though!

After reading about how the Catholic church continues to pay out record sums for child-unfriendly priests, it was nice to read how gay parents are taking their kids to the Provincetown Family Week celebration for a summer at the beach. But it’s not all fun. The celebration also includes workshops like…
The Toughest Questions Workshop by [...]

When labor is cheap and the standard of living is low, then it’s possible to have delivery men known as dabbawallas bring hot-cooked meals to Indian office workers instead of letting them wander down to their local cafeteria or neighborhood restaurant. Globalization only works when there’s a disparity between standards of living. It’s probably just [...]

One of the simplest kinds of videos you can make for your grandkids is the how-to video. Pull out that recipe file box and start cooking while your grandson or granddaughter films you. Then think up a catchy title like Feed Me Bubbe and you’re off to the Youtube film festival.

It takes a Master to sell hotpockets. Meet Master ReDai. He knows your irritable bowel syndrome.

Nice to see Andy Griffith scoring some work in the new movie, Waitress, starring Keri Russell of Felicity fame. If you like pie, the kind you eat, then this is your movie. The names of the pies are devilishly whipped up and served with a desperate eye on the cherry prize of love.
Watch the trailer

As people get older, the ability to perform daily routines like preparing meals becomes a real chore. In some cases, even the task of grocery shopping is burdensome; seniors may end up eating so poorly it poses a threat to their health. This is especially true for seniors living alone.
The Meals on Wheels program [...]

Do you ever get the feeling that pharmaceutical companies are run by former dictators from renegade countries? We sure do. Any company that needs to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to hire gorgeous women to traipse into a doctor’s office to get her to write prescriptions sure isn’t selling a product on its merits [...]

If bird flu ever crosses over into the human population, then the ability to survive off the grid just might determine whether you live or die. In order to do that, though, you need food and water. Sounds simple, right. Just go to the grocery store, buy the food and store it in your basement. [...]

If you come from a big family, the way most Italian Catholics do, then spaghetti becomes a way of life. Why? It’s cheap and easy to make and serves a table of ten at the pass of a bowl. The sauce, of course, is where the foodies will duke it out over taste. Read with [...]

When you visit a vacation place as a kid, the chances of returning to that place as an adult with your own kids is pretty much a gimme. Disney has known this forever. They hook your imagination as a kid with cute characters and then wrap your emotions around a million products in the likeness [...]

Sundance Channel offers up a program series called Iconoclasts. The idea is to pair two creative people and hope everyone learns something fun from them. The fact that it’s sponsored by Grey Goose vodka makes for an interesting mix of personalities.
The pairing shown above is the dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov and food junkie Alice Waters. We’ll [...]

Tired of Orville Reddenbackers’ microwave popcorn? Try Fat Jack’s Old Fart Korn.

First sentence: The Old Man has cooked elegant meals for family and friends since I was a kid.
Sometimes the title says it all. Forget Alice Waters and her back to basics organic approach to cooking. Rocky Fino serves up William Reich’s sexual energy as orgone delicacies.