Got a letter from a film festival today. They didn’t want my film, which I get. It happens. The one thing that did erk me was that this particular email declining my film went on forever. It went on and on about how great the quality of the films that were submitted, how many there […]

I have to say, I’m enjoying these Zoom meetings. I’ve never done it before this pandemic, and like so many other people, I have taken to interviewing people and having online face-to-face, which normally would have taken place over the phone. But certainly a new dynamic to the usual interviews that I do, and it’s […]

Think I need a new camera or at least figure out how to use the one I currently have…And, while I am at it, I also need to find my tripod.

I was sorry to hear about the passing of Michele Roux. Without argument he, along with his brother Albert, are and will be among the leading and most influential chefs in the UK. Despite the dismal, and previously well deserved, reputation of British cooking at the time he and his brother had relocated to the […]

There’s nothing more discouraging to starting an interview off with the wrong bit of information. The other day I was interviewing a chef. I mentioned his hometown of Nashville. He looked at me oddly and said, “I wasn’t born there.” That really was a bit embarrassing. A little hard to dig out of such a […]