I’ve always been a cat person. I got my first kitten as child. I named him Cinnamon. He became a big, fat ginger who was so mellow that he seemed perpetually stoned. I dressed him up in my doll ...

I would never have learned to cook if it weren’t for the TV show, “Chopped.” This long-running reality show on the Food Network pits against each other four successful chefs, who race to cook ...