Category: The Beat
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Your Fave Could Never, Banana Bread Recipe
I don’t like fruit much except they are in smoothies or in some sort of other activities they should or should not be involved in, but it took me a long time to get into banana breads… I admit to being one of those people during lockdown who was perfecting her banana bread recipe and…
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HOME TOWN COMFORTS
I love a good home show, I love seeing how visions of homes come together and the purpose the home will serve. I enjoy doom scrolling Instagram pages of interiors people and magazines to get a sense of how homes function and the purpose each room, each corner serves. The vision home people create and…
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Ferrari, The Movie
In the end what the film was missing was the humanity of a wife who built an empire with her husband and how she saved him, because, in the end, we have the legend that is Ferrari as it is today, because of Laura. There were flashes too brief flashes, but we did not see…
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MUNCH- MISERY & MELANCHOLY
When the Munch exhibition came to London, I saw it at the Coulthard, and when it went to Paris as a larger exhibition, I headed to the city to see it on a short hop and skip of a plane ride away. I’ve admired the works of Munch for as long as I can remember…
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DIRTY DAISY
A summer cocktail that is a riff of the mojito and the daiquiri, so go along with me for a minute. It strawberries, big fat juicy strawberries because strawberries in the summer are my absolute everything, at their peak, it is a superior fruit and they really ought not to be consumed in any other…
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THE POWDER ROOM – A BRIEF HISTORY
In William’s guard chamber, King William III of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and in his mind, of France, (he was never the king of France but he spent his whole life fighting with King Louis for the Kingdom) in Hampton Court palace, stands a couple figures of his Yeomen standing on ceremony and on guard,…