"New AmErykah, Part One (4th World War)" is the first full-length album in eight years for the R&B singer Erykah Badu. She is also planning a sequel record, due in the summer, and an unrelated retro-minded album, "Lowdown Loretta Brown," scheduled for the fall.
ome people think soy sauce is a solution for everything. Pour it on, and you can drown out any taste that's unfamiliar -- which is the approach my 80-year-old father takes with everything from eggs to steak, much to my mother's chagrin.
I'm Gayle Bass, the Click Chick, and this is my daily blog of what's weird, wacky and wild on the good old world wide web. 3/6 - A Very Special Birthday Message: The Countdown begins in 365 days, the Click Chick turns 40. I was thinking I'd have a big party next year but instead, I'm going to go on a trip.
Conversations about Szechuan peppercorns sound more like discussions about a drug than about a spice. The addictive, mouth-numbing ingredient, banned for years in the U.S., is now fairly easy to find.
Note: This is the first in a series of stories profiling home cooks on the North Coast. Fortuna resident Joy Frasier learned to cook from her mother and father, Mary and Em Boehm.