Monthly Archives: July 2026

A mystery custard, a stubborn Jell-O salad, and a search for the forgotten women behind a 1967 An Apple A Day cookbook.  This week I continue my journey through An Apple a Day, the classic 1967 vegetarian cookbook compiled by the wives of physicians from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. If you missed last ...

One of my all-time favorite book-turned-movie is Julie & Julia by Julie Powell. The premise is simple: Julie is pushing thirty, living in a rundown apartment in Queens, working a dead-end secretarial job, and feeling completely stuck. Now, I’m well past thirty and closing in on sixty. I used to be a secretary in what ...