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Alton Brown Author, Food TV Show Host Thursday, June 6, 2002; Noon EDT Food TV's "Good Eats" blends wit with wisdom, history with pop culture, and science with common cooking sense that our grandmothers took for granted. Now in its fifth season, it prides itself on being a show for people who'd rather understand their food than follow a recipe. Host Alton Brown's first book, "I'm Just Here for the Food," Read More...

Is it wrong to force a child to eat?

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Q: Is it psychologically damaging to force a child to eat? I was born in 1952, and my mother forced me to eat whatever she put on my plate for dinner every night. If I didn’t eat what was on my plate, she would make me sit at the dinner table until I finished, even if it was for hours. Or she would set a little manual timer for 15 minutes, slam it down in front of me and yell at me, “If you’re not done eating everything on your plate by the time this timer goes off, then you will be spanked and sent to bed! Read More...

SIGNALIS review: An artful but oblique throwback to Resident Evil 2

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Available on: PC, Xbox Series X and Series S, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch Developer: rose-engine | Publisher: Humble Games, PLAYISM Release: Oct. 27, 2022 This review contains spoilers for “Signalis.” “You will be able to dream yourself into the world of dark shadows.” In 1880, the Swiss artist Arnold Böcklin promised this much to Marie Berna, who had requested a monument to her late husband. Berna wanted something “to dream by. Read More...