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 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 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 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. [...]
Posted in Food, Food and Drink, Government, Health, Life, News, News and Politics, Politics on September 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In my mail at work the other day I received a copy of “For I Was Hungry,” an editorial series run this summer by the central Maine newspapers the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel. The series is about hunger in Maine, manifested in what has come to be called “food insecurity.” Food insecurity is, depending [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Food and Drink, Photography on September 19, 2007 | 1 Comment »
From “The Gallery of Regrettable Food” it’s food styling circa 1959 with, clockwise from the top left, “Holiday Salad” (anything pink with fruit in it was a sure show-stopper, apparently, especially with what look like - I think - green candied cherries on top), “Chicken Curry Salad” (is that what that is?), and the ever-popular [...]
