Sandra Lee as “Semi-sane”

I knew something was up with Food Network.  It doesn’t take a culinary mind like Alton Brown to see beneath the thin veneer of cheerful “family-ready” personalities that the Food Network celebrities exude is just stuff for the televisions.
Alton Brown dishes the dirt on the co-workers he barely knows.  The only person he seems to [...]

Dinner Time

I’ve been wondering about the pending death of “the family dinner.”  Since the late nineteen nineties, there’s been quite a bit of press about the gradual disappearance of family time around the dinner table against the backdrop of the current dizzying lifestyle of capitalism.  By that I mean, you read about stories that lament about [...]