The first time I tried cooking something I could barely reach the stove or the sink, but the smell of the cake in the oven and my father’s reaction to my making his favorite cake made me come back for more.
That was a long time ago, back when I was 11 years old. Now I’m 36 – I might not have grown much (5’3”!), but my passion for food definitely has. :)
As a teenager I loved being around pans and pots, but my friends thought that was sort of weird. So can you imagine how wonderful it was for me to discover the world of food blogs? So many people like me out there, who think that making food for the people we love is absolutely fun. And they were kind and welcomed me in such a warm way – I was spoiled for life. :)
I started blogging in English in November, 2006; all the recipes posted here have been prepared, styled and photographed by me. I have no professional training, nor work with anything related to food, but have learned a lot trying, reading, researching and with the help of my blogger friends. I’m addicted to cookbooks and magazines, too. :)
Most of my posts are sweet recipes, because I think desserts are the best part of a meal. I’ll choose a fruit dessert over a chocolate one anytime and citrus flavors are my thing – give me anything lemony and you’ll put a huge smile on my face.
Up until this post I used a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-P200; from this post until now I’ve been using a Nikon D40 with the lenses that came with it (18-55mm). I also use a very simple tripod and a large piece of Styrofoam to reflect the light; I don’t post process much, but when I do I use either Picasa or PicMonkey. I always, no matter what, use natural light and never use flash.
Besides cooking and photographing my food, I’m also crazy about movies – hence the name of the blog. Martin Scorsese is my favorite director; I don’t give a damn about the Oscars but every year I get mad because of all the talented people that never win it. I love TV shows as well – "Damages" and "Breaking Bad" are the best I've ever seen. And even though I’m not a comedy kind of gal "Seinfeld" has a very special place in my heart.
To me, Smiths are the best band in the whole world - I started listening to them in 1987, the same year they broke up, and haven’t stopped ever since. Silverchair is #2 in my list.
Comments and emails make my days even better - you can reach me at patricia (dot) scarpin (at) gmail.com or follow me on Twitter.
Movies I love (alphabetically ordered):
21 Grams
(500) Days of Summer
A Clockwork Orange
A History of Violence
A Room With a View
A Simple Plan
Alien
Amelie
American Beauty
American Psycho
Angel Heart
Angela's Ashes
Before Sunrise
Black Swan
Blade Runner
Blindness
Brokeback Mountain
Candy
Cape Fear
Carancho
Casino
Clash of the Titans
Creation
Damage
Dangerous Liaisons
Dead Ringers
Dracula
Dragonheart
Eastern Promises
Edward Scissorhands
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Fight Club
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Full Metal Jacket
Gladiator
Gods and Monsters
GoodFellas
Heat
Heaven & Earth
Hidalgo (first movie my hubby and I watched together ♥)
Highlander
Hollow Man
House of Sand and Fog
In Bruges
I've Loved You So Long
In the Cut
In the Name of the Father
Inception
Inglourious Basterds
Jude
Kinsey
Labyrinth
Ladyhawke
Leon - The Professional
Let Me In
Little Children
Little Women
Luna de Avellaneda
M. Butterfly
Mary Reilly
Mary Reilly
Match Point
Memento
Miami Vice
Midnight in Paris
Mighty Aphrodite
Monster's Ball
Naked Lunch
Nine Queens
Notes on a Scandal
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Of Mice and Men (one of my all time favorite books)
Primal Fear
Quills
Quiz Show
Raging Bull
Requiem for a Dream
Restless
Road to Perdition
Romeo & Juliet
Rosemary's Baby
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Seven
Shadow of the Vampire
Shutter Island
Sin City
Slumdog Millionaire
Stay
Stir of Echoes
Sunshine
Superman Returns (Kevin Spacey is the best Lex Luthor EVER)
Taxi Driver
The Baby of Macon
The Believer
The Constant Gardener
The Crucible
The Crying Game
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
The Departed
The Descendants
The Elephant Man
The End of the Affair
The English Patient
The Four Feathers
The Ghost Writer
The Gift
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
The Insider
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Mission
The Mothman Prophecies
The Name of the Rose
The New World
The Others
The Painted Veil
The Piano
The Pledge
The Prestige
The Road
The Royal Tenenbaums
The Secret in Their Eyes (El Secreto de Sus Ojos)
The Shining
The Sixth Sense
The Social Network
Son of the Bride
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Tree of Life
The Untouchables
The Usual Suspects
Thelma & Louise
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
True Grit
Traffic
12 Monkeys
Up in the Air
Watchmen
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
Willy Wonka & Chocolate Factory
The Wrestler
X-Men
X2
X-Men: First Class
XXY
Movies I like for certain actors and performances:
American History X
(Edward Norton)Apt Pupil
(Ian McKellen)Blood Diamond
(Leonardo DiCaprio)J. Edgar
(Leonardo DiCaprio)Little Miss Sunshine
(Steve Carell)Misery
(Kathy Bates)My Left Foot
(Daniel Day Lewis)Planet of the Apes
(Tim Roth kicks some seriously ass even with tons of make up on his face)Schindler's List DVD
(Ralph Fiennes)The Contender
(Gary Oldman)The Other Boleyn Girl
(K. Scott Thomas and Eric Bana)The Scarlet Letter
(Gary Oldman)The Woodsman
(Kevin Bacon)This Boy's Life
(Leonardo DiCaprio)What's Eating Gilbert Grape
(Leonardo DiCaprio)
