I've been a dietitian for over 20 years and follow the Mediterranean diet, but I don't love cooking. bulgar, precooked hard-boiled eggs, and frozen pizza from Trader Joe's make my life easier. I also pick up Envy apples, pistachios, and vegan creamy dill dressing for a number of meals. When I tell people I've been a registered dietitian for more than 20 years, the assumption is that I love to eat nutritious foods and cook them myself. Read More...
MoviesObituaryLinden TraversGifted actress who moved comfortably from femme fatale roles to light comediesAmong the many questions film-goers ask themselves while watching Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1939), the penultimate film of the director's British period, is what on earth the exquisite brunette Mrs Todhunter sees in the pompous and pusillanimous Mr Todhunter (portrayed by portly Cecil Parker).
So passionate and sympathetic is the lovely Linden Travers, who has died aged 88, that we can only be pleased for her when Todhunter is shot by the Nazis as he tries to make a run for it. Read More...
One year ago this August, the Taliban raised their white flag over Afghanistan's capital for the second time, pulling down the tricolor flag of the republic that had endured for the two decades between.
Their victory gave the radical religious movement supreme power over a country with a median age of 18 — which means most citizens weren't alive for the Taliban's violent years in power from 1996-2001. The young people on the left of this photo above had never seen such a change of power. Read More...