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The GuaranBEEd to Get You Laid Omelette…Go ahead, read on…
This post first appeared last spring. I’m bringing it back after a stressful week with no power and a deep need for easy BEEasy comfort food. Even better, I’m gearing up to announce a “Jule The Bee Magic Pan” giveaway. Stay tuned! In 1997 my father, after much begging, agreed to send me to culinary…
BEEat The Heat BEEauty
Why do women love skincare so much? Is it because as little girls we watched our mothers, our grandmothers, our sisters digging into their jars, their lotions, their potions, looking over their shoulders at their reflections in their vanity mirrors? I can remember my mother’s face, lit up, washed in pale gold light from her…
Ask The Bee: A Virus in Vera Wang
Dear Bee, As cliché as it may sound, I was always the girl who dreamt of her wedding…the big white Vera Wang gown, the overabundance of flowers, the signing of the Ketubah, you name it, I have thought it out in perfect detail. Fast forward 31 years. I met my forever in the most unexpected…
Stray Dog Fish Tacos
Dale Botwick was my Gammy’s sister. Where my Gammy was elegant, Dale was brash. Where Gammy was Elizabeth Taylor knock-your-socks-off beautiful, Dale was, well Dale was not. Tall and large, with a lemon chiffon shock of blond hair that looked like spun sugar, Dale was loud and crass and wore flowing caftans and massive jewelry…
Love & Lobster Salad
Need the perfect beach cover-up while eating Love & Lobster Salad on the beach? I am obsessed with Bette and their boho, BEEachy vibe. They’ve been so generous to me, I wear their caftans religiously and now I get to give you a gift of 20% off of your order (even sale items!) at shopbette.com…
Ask The Bee: Love or Loyalty?
Hi Jule, I hope this note finds you well! I’m reaching out as I’d love your perspective on my current dating situation. A few months ago, I was fixed up with a guy through a mutual acquaintance of ours. Before our first date, we spoke on the phone for over an hour so I was…
Star Spangled BEEger
I was not a hamburger kinda kid. The exception was a burger from “The Stuffed Shirt” in my hometown of South Orange, NJ. As a kid, Monday evenings were my family’s “late night.” After hours of Mr. Tamal’s rigorous ballet class at The NJ School of Ballet, we would head straight there for dinner. On…
Ask The Bee: Moral Compass
Hi Jule, I need some guidance. These past few weeks have left my heart heavy and sad. Seeing how our black community is being treated in this country breaks my heart. As a white privileged woman, I have never had to experience anything like this. I work for an older white female who claims to…
Forever Summer Salad
It was a hot day in early June when I came home from school to find a note from my mother left for me on top of my white eyelet comforter. The note was attached to a copy of the coveted, and in many households, and even libraries, forbidden “Forever” by Judy Blume. The note…
The Bee’s aBEErol Spritz
Non si puo pensare bene, Amare bene, Dormire bene Se non si e mangiato bene. One cannot think well, Love well, Sleep well, If one has not dined well. -Virgina Woolf A good cocktail never hurt either… ~JTB I am terrified of the ocean. Really any open moving water fills me with Natalie Wood-like terror.…
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