Yes folks, it’s that time of year for……..THE BLACK WEBLOG AWARDS!

Grab your remotes, get set, go! The 2008 Summer Olympics begin on Friday with the flag-waving pageantry of the opening ceremony. To mark the occasion, how about cooking up the Kung Pao Chicken from Appetite for China? Just click this post's title for the recipe.

A week ago today, the NYTimes startled the food world by lauding the taste of chocolate chip cookies baked after first chilling the dough for 12 hours, 24 hours, all the way up to 36 hours. Joy the Baker had to know and launched a live taste test. Is it worth the wait?

Screenwriter and author Amy Ferris (guest posting on Women & Hollywood) tells us what she initially loved about Charlize Theron's character in Hancock, and explains why her love had waned some by the film's end.

To boycott or not to boycott can be a tough decision, depending on which set of personal principles trumps the other. Click the title of this post to see what prompted one food blogger to change her usual anti-corporate fast food stance.

It's obvious that Jennifer Mattern is a professional writer, even if you don't click over to read her about page. In this post she writes about her very recent divorce with all the mixed emotions of it showing through her words: "There is a divorce epidemic, I am now convinced. It is spreading like wildfire, like the plague. This morning, I bring coffee and donuts and children to his place. The four of us eat breakfast at his counter. When the girls run off to play, D and I talk about this epidemic, about all the couples we know who are splitting.