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  • Suggestions for your 2016 Oscar party menu

    Snacks Devilled eggs (Room) Crackers and brie (Room) Entrees Sushi (The Revenant) Potatoes cooked any method (The Martian) Drinks Bloody Mary (Mad Max: Fury Road) Irish whisky / Guinness (Brooklyn) Dessert Milk tart (Mad Max: Fury Road) Bear claws (The Revenant)

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  • Thematic food for your 2014 Oscar party

    The below are suggestions for thematic food to serve while watching the Academy Awards on Sunday, March 2. All are inspired by the nine movies nominated for Best Picture, and I’ve linked to recipes where possibly needed. Why? Because brainstorming party food based on pop culture themes is one of my favourite things to do.…

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  • An Oscar-worthy Menu: 2012

    Oscar parties without thematic food are lame. But thinking up a whole menu can be difficult (especially if you haven’t seen the movies), so here are a few suggestions for inspiration. [If you actually make any of these, please send me photos. Thank you.] I also did this last year, for the sake of reference. Hors…

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  • Two steps forward, two steps back

    Let’s do some feminist math, in honor of (the last hour of) International Women’s Day: Book is published that shows it’s possible to turn female oppression into opportunity – now in its 20th printing: +1 It’s called Half the Sky, and it’s written by New York Times superheroes Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof. Read it. Gold…

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  • An Oscar-worthy Menu

    Planning an Oscar party? Need some best picture-themed food? Now that there are 10 best picture nominees, instead of 5, trying to devise an entire menu of themed foods is going to be twice as difficult this year. So let me help, and try a few of these ideas on Sunday, March 7. Warning: Lots…

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