by Liz Gumbinner | Oct 14, 2015 | Shopping Finds
Sometimes you see a product and it’s instant love. That was my reaction to the Sugar House sugar bowl from Peleg Design. It looks like those snow globes from airport gift shops that our kids know and love (and that the TSA confiscates from your carry-on bags...
by Liz Gumbinner | Oct 12, 2015 | Shopping Finds
I don’t drink a lot of soda, but I admit that when I reach for one it’s generally as a pick-me-up. Well, a new Venice Beach (of course) company called Just Chill is heading in the opposite direction. If you like the idea of a beverage made for more...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 17, 2015 | Columns
I have this growing obsession with Instagram food art accounts. It kind of blows my mind to see plates as canvases, only instead of watercolors or pastels, the media of choice include fruits and veggies, candies and cookies. Not that I’d ever present these as...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 8, 2015 | Recipes
This past week, I I joined Stacie and her husband at a wonderful ramen restaurant, where everyone at the table was flipping over a fantastic shishito pepper appetizer. (And fortunately, our children didn’t look at the word on the menu long enough to start...
by Liz Gumbinner | Sep 3, 2015 | Columns
When I first watched the FED UP documentary, produced by Laurie David and Katie Couric, I admit that some of the info I knew, lots I didn’t, and lots more made me squirm. But then, that’s what a good documentary should do. I have such a heightened...