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 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 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 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.
Posted in Drink, Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, News, Travel on September 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
In my usual scan of the New York Times Dining & Wine section today I saw the headline “In Portland, a Golden Age of Dining and Drinking” and I thought, “Cool - um, I mean, really? A golden age of dining and drinking right in nearby Portland, Maine?” But, no. Alas, the story is about Portland, Oregon. [...]
