Amsterdam in the summer has an annual treat for classical music lovers of all ages. Grachtenfestival will feature some 70 performances from August 17-21 along the city’s canals, including the Prinsengracht concert on a floating stage. But there’s more to this festival than just beautiful music. There will be free performances in and around private…
These are some of my recipes that I want to share with you. I hope you will find them interesting COOKS TIPS To peel Garlic: first crush them with the back of a cleaver, the skin just falls off .
Starting in November, the Hotel Roger Williams in New York will offer wine and cheese tastings. Max McCalman, a cheese expert who hopes to “spread the curd” about artisanal cheeses, will organize and attend some of the tastings. Each wine and cheese tasting will cost $25 per person and will be held the first Tuesday…
Paris Hilton and Beyonce´are just two of the celebs who have been throwing away their Euros this summer on $17,000-a-day yachts in Saint-Tropez. Once a quaint French fishing village, it’s now a jet-set playground for the richer and famous like Usher, Tara Reid, Naomi Campbell, The Beckhams, Mischa Barton, Denzel Washington, Bruce Willis and Bono.
Summer time means salads and eating light. Whats your favorite Summer salad?
Ingredients: 1 cup granulated sugar 6 eggs 1 can (12 ounces) evaporated milk 1 can (14 ounces) coconut milk 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract or 1 shot of rum or brandy
This easy-to-make, versatile bread can be served as soon as it is cool enough to slice for sandwiches, as a sweet with coffee, or even as a dessert. It is good just plain, or it can be embellished with cream cheese or butter. It freezes well. Yield: 1 loaf
Ropa Vieja — “Old Clothes” Cuban Shredded Beef Serves 6 – 8. This Cuban beef recipe is easy to make (although a bit time consuming) and very delicious. Make sure you cook the flank steak until very tender. They say that this dish is called “old clothes” because the shredded beef frays on the ends…
Ingredients 1 chicken (cut in small pieces) 1 tbsp Vegetable oil 2 Cloves garlic, chopped 2 Scallions, chopped 1 tbsp Curry powder 1 tbsp Allspice 1 tsp ginger
Not only is soybean curd, AKA tofu, being celebrated in LA’s Little Tokyo next weekend, but it’s actually the 10th Annual 2005 Tofu Festival. Or, as the presenters like to call it… Tofuzilla, “When Giant Tofu Takes Over Little Tokyo.” And its roots go back even further as the 65th Annual Nisei Week Japanese Festival.
You may not believe in the concept of energy choreography, but the bets are on you might feel its benefits if you stayed at Toronto’s latest designer hotel, the Cosmopolitan. Sylvia Noble, energy consultant to stars such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ron Howard, is the woman behind the cosmic circuitry of the 97-suite hotel, which…
If the Maori culture intrigues you, stick out your tongue, stomp your feet and beat your chest at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from August 5th through the 14th. Here, you can view America’s largest exhibition of contemporary Maori art and culture from New Zealand. It includes The Eternal Thread, a world…