The Way Back: Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

The Way Back: Polish Pierogi Casserole Recipe  🥁🥁🥁🥁

If you can survive the freezing wind, the Russian criminal gangs running the barracks are ready to stab you for your threadbare sweater, and then there’re the mines, great sulfurous pits where every breath is a taste of fire. Those Cyrillic letters on the archway above the Siberian prison camp might as well say, “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”

Read More

Australia: Tim Tam Cheesecake Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2

This sweeping epic is what the big screen was made for – a country of austere beauty, its cruelty and benevolence as capricious as the rough souls that inhabit it. Unabashedly bold, brash, and romantic, the saga stampedes across the screen with nary a nod to nihilism or nuance, pausing only to tip its hat to a bit of self-aware irony.

Read More

Midnight in Paris: Hemingway’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Midnight in Paris: Hemingway’s Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Woody Allen’s 2011 tale is a love story of sorts, but the real object of his affection is not a girl but an entire city. Cobbled streets compel a stroll, sidewalk cafes invite a conversation, and lighted fountains are the song of sirens, luring us into their watery depths. Is it any wonder there is even more magic after midnight?

Read More

Quigley Down Under: Aussie Meat Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁

Tom Selleck, all 6’4” of his manly magnificence, is at his prime in this often-overlooked iconic Western. Remember when masculinity was not considered “toxic?” A man was as good as his word, he defended the helpless with firearms and his fists, and he didn’t back down from a fight.

Read More

Before the Rains: Indian Lime Rice Recipe

Charged with that oppressive atmosphere that is only released with a torrential downpour, this period piece is awash in seething tensions and passions. Set in Colonial India of the1930s, the ostensible focus is the torrid and doubly adulterous love affair between a British spice master and his Indian servant girl, but its real beauty is how it affects his second in command, Indian born but British educated.

Read More