Tag: Lupita Nyong’o

Eat the Rainbow

Eat the Rainbow

Even though I did not like 12 Years A Slave, I LOVE looking at Lupita Nyong’o and am proud of her Oscar win. In honor of her beauty and fashion sense, tonight I prepared a colorful dish – Mahi Mahi with Pineapple Salsa. Here’s the 

Hollywood, please

Hollywood, please

Django, The Butler and 12 Years A Slave leave me none too impressed with Hollywood’s portrayals of African-American women. Partly because I was weaned on 1970’s classics Coffy and Cleopatra Jones – the strong, savvy, sexy, generally peace-loving black women, who would kick an ass