Category: The Beat
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Carrot Cake; an old soul
When you think about it, Carrot cake really is an old soul, that goes to an old school of thought with life lessons are passed down… it is like grandma. I’ve always stayed shy of a carrot cake because I find it needs a deft hand, but I also don’t particularly like vegetable oil in…
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Listen – Fix You by Cold Play
A song steeped in a love so deep it is binding. Carrying the weight of your hopes and dreams, your fears and heartbreak. Your grief and loss. Reportedly Chris Martin wrote this song for Gwyneth Paltrow upon the death of her father, and I do hope it’s true because what a tribute it is to…
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Watch – People We Meet On Vacation
Poppy is running away from whatever it is, the fear of being ordinary, the fear of a predictable life in her small town of Linfield Ohio because in her words, once a small town defines you that is it, that is all of it. Alex is a guy who seeks home, seeks grounding, seeks the…
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KERRY JAMES MARSHALL – THE HISTORIES
Blacker than black with layers of complexity and richness. Our history loud and full, quiet and beautiful. I couldn’t love this exhibition any more than I do, so much so, I saw it twice in one day then went back the next day to see it again. I stood in awe and was moved to…
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Summer Berry Cake – La Fantasia
It was the last week of summer, and I wanted to round it up it with a delight and nothing is more delightful than cake. I love cake. To know me is to know most manner of baked goods brings me joy, except custard in tarts. Custard in general I find gross; any kind of…
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Watch: Tucci In Italy
In Searching For Italy, Stanley Tucci took us to the heart of the big hits in Italy a country I love dearly. In Tucci in Italy, he takes us to the skirts of the land that is forever synonymous with its food; a place where food is as crucial an identity as the person itself.…
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LONDON QUICK & DIRTY | THE HIP HOP EXHIBITION
Spend an hour or two at the Saatchi gallery on the Kings Road at the Hip Hop exhibition titled Hip-Hop – Living A Dream, which I think is a play on It was all dream. It is a collection of photographs by Jamal Shabazz, Joseph Rodriguez and Gregory Bojorquez and the stories about how those…
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Pink Crab Tagliatelle
Yet another spaghetti you say? Why yes, yes this is because spaghetti, pasta are spring summer foods; easy food and I love it, I love making it, so simple and it makes me feel accomplished when throwing things together AND, they are accompanied by typically easy ingredients that you have knocking about in your pantry;…
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The French 75: 3 ways
I am something of a cocktail connoisseur; I love a good cocktail. I have had the best daiquiri in the world, I was that cliché in Havana going to El Floridita, Hemmingway’s old hangout, the cradle of the daiquiri, to try out the drink and true to form I have not found anything quite like…