Watching Others Cook
Collins, Kathleen. (2009). Watching What We Eat: the evolution of television cooking shows. New York: Continuum. ISBN: 0-8264-2930-0 I’ve learned so much about food and cooking from watching cooking shows on television. As a teenager I would watch and long to be able to make the kinds of recipes being shown; dreamed of having a [...]
Favorite Movies About Life During War Time
I’ve been reading so many novels with war as a theme lately that it has made me think about some of my favorite movies with the same theme. My favortie war movies actually deal with the “home front,” how ordinary civilians deal with war and its aftermath. Gone With the Wind (1939), is the big [...]
Flash of Genius More Like Splash of Rain
I was excited to go see the preview of Flash of Genius because it had two actors that I really admire and think are talented: Greg Kinnear and Lauren Graham. I also enjoy period films that really get into the details. This film gets that right, and I was savoring images of a dining table [...]
Elizabeth and the Golden Age
I have always thought the defeat of the Spanish Armada to be one of the best stories of history. This movie gives us a dramatic visual portrayal of that event, and also an inkling of what the political climate was at the time. It seems a bit skewed in some ways, for modern audiences, because females [...]
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