FRIED COFFEE

“Because I believe that homemade bread offers benefits on many levels, and that it is neither demanding nor difficult to make—that it doesn’t have to disrupt the rhythm of your life but can become part of it—I begin without ceremony.“ The lead paragraph above sets the philosophy of Jack Black as he begins a four [...]

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POPCORN SCHOOL You aughta know by now that taking shortcuts is a recipe for trouble and popcorn is no exception according to Lou Bendrick, <(read this).  I just can’t imagine buying the microwave popcorn packages myself. I get concerned about the hydrogenated part of the nutrition label.  Actually, I don’t eat popcorn for nutrition, I [...]

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BENJI LANYADO takes us to a small village in Kent, near London, in a wonderfully written piece in the NYT Travel section.  I tasted the oysters and chased them with Guinness then got hungry all over again as I read.  The article is in black ink on white newsprint, but I promise you food and [...]

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In my previous post “ Howard Beale Lives” I linked to a clip of Peter Finch, as news anchor Beale, in Network that became an iconic film moment.  That movie was produced in 1976 but the message and topic of the clip is, perhaps, more timely today  than it was 33 years ago. I suggest [...]

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There’s only one reason for winter and it’s not the pursuit of a perfectly crafted snow angel or an injury waiting to happen while strapped onto moving things that speed down nastily sloped and narrow passages through the woods.  It doesn’t require a motor or demand hours camped on ice with a string dangling through [...]

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Dina Berta caught me in the office a few weeks ago and found the concept of per diem Chef services interesting enough to write an article about us in Nation’s Restaurant News. The benefits of temporary Chef services are apparent to large food service operations like Aramark, Sodexo, or Compass.  The costs of hiring and [...]

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It is my belief that the majority of people in the world wish for nothing more than a fair shot at personal growth and a modicum of success.  No matter what geographical position we inhabit,  or lifestyle we pursue,   we all accept the presence of a higher power. It is my prayer that we [...]

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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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