FRIED COFFEE

Paul Caron responded to my previous post asking for suggestions for post-Thanksgiving remnants.  I am mystified as to why anybody feels a need make leftovers complicated.  If you have done your Google search for “left over turkey” or derivatives thereof, you get over 1,000,000 options, all of which offer ideas on dealing with the remains [...]

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Butterball dished out bird cooking advice to more than 11,000 callers with only 6 overwhelmed phone operators when it started its toll free telephone help line 27 years ago in 1981. They’ve come a long way since then and have added Web 2.0 technology so you can sign up for timely turkey advice to be [...]

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We are strong supporters of recycling and were quite taken when we saw the new bathroom fixture by Caroma. The Profile Smart is a hand sink mounted atop a toilet to reuse hand washing water.  The benefits are obvious.  Though I’ve never counted the number of times I wash my hands throughout the day, as [...]

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Keeping a sanitary kitchen is paramount for all of us in the food service industry.  As professional Chefs we are on the front lines in that battle.  The Wausau Daily Herald reported on an outbreak of food-borne illness that sickened 40 to 50 people and might be linked to food served at a high school [...]

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The weather, dry, sunny and cool has brought us spectacular displays of color. With fall comes a thirst for the cider my neighbors make on the creaky old press that’s been in their family for generations. I’m not sure what it is about cider that captivates me, but I must indulge and I like to [...]

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Over the last four years photographer Paul Mobley traveled the United States and met more than 300 farmers.  You can see a few of them here.  Paging through the book,  American Farmer,  one feels the warm, gritty soil and the sun, hard on your neck. The book shows us the heart of the U. S. [...]

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Back in 1992 I predicted the short life-span of karaoke and bottled water.  It takes drinking to support either. I was mistaken about both but to this day I am astonished that people spend $11 Billion yearly on the same commodity that flows freely out of the tap in my house.  Producers of these expensive [...]

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I was wandering around the Internet curious about the dilemma of what is or is not environmentally correct about the choices I make in my daily life.  Welllll…….   it’s not that simple. I ran across this post which made me realize that I need to first attain PhDs in Biodiversity, Chemical Engineering, Ecological  Economics, [...]

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