Comfort with Every Bite by Elizabeth Brown, MS, RD

For the Love of the Game…and my mom

The third week of June 2008, two very big events took place: the end of the NBA playoffs and my mom visited me in Santa Monica. Both events brought a little pleasure and pain. The pleasing part of the playoffs was watching the Lakers get to game six, the painful part: the loss. Ow! Sorry Laker fans.

My editor asked if I had a recipe to fix a broken heart. At first I thought, “Who hurt him? Poor thing”. But then he admitted that his heart was broken over the Laker’s, not over the loss of Love. So typical of a man, to be more upset over sports than a woman. I can’t really judge though, B-ball is or was my game. I played most of my young life until I hit high school measuring in at only a bit above five feet tall. I simply could not hang, so I hung up my “semi-pro” sneaks and opted for powerfliting. I still shoot hoops though, even perfected my three pointer.

Sushi goes Vegan by Elizabeth Brown, MS, RD

Opposites Attract

Sushi and dating: they go together, at least they use to, until I realized that if I went to a sushi restaurant on a first date, there was never a second. The lack of date number two was my choice so I could not help but feel that perhaps the pretense of a high end sushi restaurant skewed my decision whether or not to go out again.

Was I really giving these gentleman a fair shake by putting them under the gun of the sushi-sphere; the atmosphere whereby beautiful people eat raw fish, drink sake and attempt to make conversation over the unyielding clamor in a restaurant where you use chop sticks instead of silverware? What would make a sushi restaurant so noisy anyway?

Sex & the City Popcorn by Elizabeth Brown, MS, RD

Movie Theater Popcorn Make-Over

I did not watch Sex and the City when it first aired although I knew about the hype of this show where Carrie (Sara Jessica Parker) wrote a column about her dating experiences and spent hundreds of dollars on each pair of shoes.

I started watching the show when I began my cross country move from a little resort beach town called Ocean City, Maryland to Berkeley, CA. I watched the show as a way to inspire me to follow a dream; a dream to develop and host a nutrition science based cooking show, a 20 year dream coming to fruition, or so I thought.