The 5min Blog

I’m a classic girl, so although I think it’s fascinating, the whole Bizarre Foods trend is not my thing (especially when they involve a living creature). It might work for some, but when I tried to play extreme and ate some traditional food on the streets of Central America, all I got was stomach [...]

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So the dictionary tells me gourmet equals involving or purporting to involve high-quality or exotic ingredients or skilled preparation. I always thought Gourmet equals French! However, turns out there’s a little more to it than feasting on frogs or speaking with a Parisian accent. Gourmet can be anything from fine dining to mac (yes, that [...]

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I always wanted to be a bartender. Well, I always wanted to be an astronaut too, but always is a very flexible word. Let’s say it like this: one night, five years ago, I almost became a bartender. But alas,  vanity was my downfall. It involves a very interesting and embarrassing story which I’m not [...]

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Okay, there’s just no elegant way to escape saying this – I have a huge, throbbing, aching Internet crush on Chef Billy Parisi. There, I’ve said it – now I can move on and focus on explaining what it is that drew me in, and what it is that sets Billy and Fix My Recipe [...]

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Samuel Gompers, founder of the American Federation of Labor, said: “Labor day differs in every essence from the other holidays of the year in any country. All other holidays are more or less connected with conflicts and battles of man’s  prowess over man, of strife and discord for greed and power, of glories achieved by [...]

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I’m proud to say that yes, I love chick flicks. I can watch Love Actually, Something’s Gotta Give and When Harry Met Sally many times, and always cry.  Not to mention Fried Green Tomatoes, one of my top 10 of all time. The movie has it all, including Mary-Louise Parker. (yes, how could you Billy!)
I [...]

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I always thought that my taste for honey made me some sort of  Winnie the Pooh-but it seems that there’s way more than sweetness and fuzziness involved: honey can make your love life sweeter, if you know how to cook with it.
Like Tita from Like Water for Chocolate, it seems that choosing the proper ingredients [...]

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I don’t believe that people should define themselves constantly, but if you ask me, yes, I’m a Summer person.  As long as Summer includes pools and cocktails, of course. If not, Summertime can be the roughest time…
And when it comes to cocktails, I’m not that easy to please. That’s one of the reasons that I [...]

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If I had to define myself with a drink, I’d go with whiskey. But of course, when it comes to drinks, you can’t be entirely monogamous.
You will have to do some cheating in between: it’s better to pair that delicious brie cheese with a Casa Lapostolle’s Clos Apalta wine, make yourself a White Russian [...]

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Like many children all over the world I remember falling in love with “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” which became one of my all time favorite books. Long before Tim Burton and Johnny Depp forced their Freudian theories down our throats I used to read it over and over again visualizing all of Roald Dahl’s [...]

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