Isabel Cowles

Most Recent Articles by Isabel Cowles

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  Happy Birthday, Osamu Tezuka, Japan’s “God of Comics”
  Osamu Tezuka has been called the “god of comics” in Japan. After writing his first comic strip in third grade, Tezuka published his first professional manga while studying at medical school. His innovations to the field of Japanese comics and animation are evident through the 700 works he produced, which include more than 150,000 pages of manga.
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  Happy Birthday, Auguste Escoffier, Innovative Chef and Inventor of the Chef's Hat
  Modern cuisine owes many of its practices to the great French chef Auguste Escoffier. In addition to inventing the chef’s hat, Escoffier changed public dining in hotels and restaurants worldwide by creating systematized kitchens, serving dishes in a specific order instead of all at once and emphasizing the freshness and flavor of the ingredients used. We celebrate Escoffier’s culinary vision on the anniversary of his birth.
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  Halloween Candy: Past and Present Favorites
  Make your house a favorite of trick-or-treaters with information about and links to suppliers of the most popular fruit-flavored and chocolate Halloween candies. You’ll also find resources for retro favorites and candy recipes. Put those treats in your bowl and get ready to answer the doorbell.
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  Planning a Halloween Party
  Spice up your Halloween party with help from a variety of Web sites that offer both traditional and original decorating, craft, costume, recipe and pumpkin-carving ideas.
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  Happy Birthday, Truman Capote, Investigative Journalist and Author
  Writer Truman Capote emerged from the small town of Monroeville, Alabama to become one of the most visible writers of the 1950s and ’60s. His book “In Cold Blood” inspired a new form of reporting that came to be called New Journalism, while his short stories and novels, like “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” often reflected the cultural landscape of New York City society.