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For the next 12 months, I'll be inviting you to my table. Sharing stories, anecdotes, lessons from the kitchen and, of course, recipes from my new cookbook, "Molto Batali" (ecco, 2011). And it's all about family meals.

Dear Laptop Computer,

I wonder what Sada Coe might say to our Sacramento politicians

The focus currently in the news seems to be on war and violence. A civil war in Syria during which the Syrian government used poison gas against its own citizens has brought the United States to the brink of entering that conflict.

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If most people (kids included) were asked where history ranked

Luis Bravo, the creator and director of

Gerard Alessandrini created “Forbidden Broadway” in 1982 and has developed this spoof on Broadway musicals into 19 award-winning editions that have spread humor around the world. It’s had an unprecedented 31-year run in New York.

In London in 1976, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice released an album of a show that would be called “Evita.” By early 1977, the album took the world by storm and when “Evita” premiered in London in June 1978, everyone was humming "Don't Cry For Me Argentina." In September 1979, “Evita” opened on Broadway to a sold out run and won seven Tonys, including Best Musical, Score, Book and Director. “Evita's” Broadway run went on for four years.