Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Life, Travel, Uncategorized on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Foregoing the delights of the Waffle House we continued our tour Tuesday with a visit to the University of Mary Washington. Like Johns Hopkins the day before, UMW has a lush green campus and is covered with brick colonnaded buildings (with a few examples of more modern institutional architecture thrown in, like other schools, often not [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Life, Uncategorized on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Day One (yesterday)
Left about 40 minutes behind schedule this morning. Not bad for us, actually. Stopped at the supermarket to pick up a couple last minute items. And we got to Baltimore only a little later than I expected, allowing for a couple of rest stops.
A few observations about the trip down:
People don’t seem to [...]
Posted in Books, Drink, Food and Drink, Health and Wellness, Life, Wellness, Writing on April 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another book that’s gotten a lot of attention over the last few months. The director of our public library suggested I read Michael Gates Gill’s How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.
Reading some of the online reviews and reader comments it seems people often miss the point [...]
Posted in Cooking, Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Humor, Life on February 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Proof that cabin fever is reaching epidemic proportions: Mark Bittman featuring a tomato as “guest host, good friend and colleague” for his segment as “The Minimalist” on roasted tomato soup.
Talking to, and speaking as the voice of Mr. Tomato Face? Clearly evidence this interminable winter has taken its toll. Now I don’t feel so bad about [...]
Posted in Books, Computers and Internet, Cooking, Drink, Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Hobbies, Internet on January 13, 2008 | 6 Comments »
For almost ten years Mark Bittman has been writing for The New York Times as “The Minimalist.” Though I have been a regular (mostly online) reader of the Times for a while now, it’s only recently that I have really paid any attention to his writing and online video. (Never let it be [...]
Posted in Computers and Internet, Food, Food and Drink, Internet on January 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Baked eggs for New Year’s brunch. Mmmm. The picture, above, is not of the ones I cooked, alas, because we ate them right up.
I used the method demonstrated by Mark Bittman of the New York Times’ “The Minimalist with Mark Bittman” (see here, or look on the NYT site for the video).
Instead of prosciutto, tomato, and [...]
Posted in Drink, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Hobbies, Life, News, News and Politics on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few years ago a co-worker gave me a copy of Big Shots: The Men Behind the Booze for Christmas. It’s an interesting little book full of witty, earthy, and sometimes sophomoric, anecdotes involving some of the legends and actual history of liquor. Now, I’m not sure this is a good thing, but the nuggets of [...]
Posted in Cooking, Drink, Food, Food and Drink, Life on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. Like so many other holidays it has been almost, but not quite, completely overtaken by our consumer culture. As a holiday grounded in thankfulness for the harvest, food is even more central to its celebration, and even more rigidly bound to a particular canon - roast turkey, potatoes, [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Humor on November 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Apparently this is not a recent innovation in kitchen technology. And to think I’ve still been cooking bacon the hard way.
Posted in Automobiles, Drink, Entertainment, Food and Drink, Hobbies, Life on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Oops. Too much time on StumbleUpon last night while watching football and then watching videos from Jay Leno’s Garage after open house at the high school following the schedules of our junior and sophomore. Good thing it would take 180 cups of coffee to do me in.
At least the Patriots won.
