Practice a little moderation now and then to increase the pleasure of the blow-outs. - advice given to writer Adair Lara by her father

Since August:

• It took 45 minutes for Olive Garden to sell out of their promotional $100 for 49 days of The Never Ending Pasta Bowl.
• The lucky winners paid a hundred bucks and get to eat as much pasta, salad, bread, ( Read more... )

April: Well, the cranberries were easy. I just had to open the can.
Eugene: [needing support from his wife] Evette?
April Burns: [sensing Eugene's outrage] What? Oh, come on. Everyone likes it from the can.
Eugene: No one likes it from the can. - Katie Holmes and Isiah Whitlock Jr, "Pieces of April," 2003The forces of good and evil are at work ( Read more... )

Femme de Joie has not done any scientific polling, but she suspects the most-hated pie in America is mincemeat. Perhaps it's partly the name - there's something sinister going on with that - perhaps its unyielding dense stickiness, perhaps the intensity of dried fruit & spice. Maman de Joie was a big mincemeat pie fan - the only mincemeat fan ( Read more... )