From the monthly archives:

December 2010

Jinks!

by kara on December 12, 2010

The groundbreaking “Huckleberry Hound Show” (the show that put Hanna Barbera on the map, the first half-hour animated show to succeed in the TV market and the first cartoon to ever receive an Emmy), was my favorite show when I was 5 or 6. God I loved that cordial, slow strolling blue dog in the […]

The Tea Party Problem.

by kara on December 10, 2010

This is reprinted from a piece I wrote for The Huffington Post in December, 2009. Link to original post How delightful it is to learn, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, that the Republican Party would lose serious ground in an election held today if it had to face off against an as […]

  100 years before the Hiltons, the Trumps and the Spellings desecrated America with their gross junk, a Chicago utility czar named Cornelius Kingsley Garrison Billings, gave the most ridiculous dinner party ever recorded. In 1901, the 40 year old President of the People’s Gas, Light and Coke Company of Chicago retired, pulling up stakes and […]

From the Files of Adventures in Eating

by kara on December 4, 2010

If you like food like I do, if you like reading about food like I do, if you like talking about food like I do, and if you like reading about wacky, idiotic, fantastic or asinine things people did with food throughout history like I do, then you will enjoy the site called “Restaurant-ing Through […]