Food Trance: (Beet Cake)
This is gonna make your day, I promise. The visual equivalent of a long, fragrant bath in a giant claw-foot tub. Check it out! beet cake from tiger in a jar on Vimeo. Hat tip to Virginia Warfield
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Why We’re a No Soda Household
Soda makes you fat Gum chewers. Giant screen TVs. People who spell a lot “alot.” It’s just one of those things that makes me twitch: noticing how often grossly overweight people are clutching liters of...
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Changing of the Tea?
Changing of the Tea? Seems Twinnngs has changed the recipe for Earl Grey tea. Where I come from (this side of the pond, I mean) this is what we’d call a hangin’ offense. You just don’t mess with a...
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Don’t Piss off the Food Bloggers
This made me laugh. About everything; Big Corporate Food, public relations, social media and yes, even food bloggers. A select group of food and mommy bloggers were invited to what they thought was a...
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Bad Home Cooking is Five!
Five Years of Bad Home Cooking John Lennon once remarked that life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans. And blogging, I would like to add. I started writing Bad Home Cooking in...
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PETA goes Porno?
Save the animals? This just has to be a stunt. A brilliant, evil PR stunt designed to go viral and nothing else. Radical animal rights group PETA says it is launching a porno/gore website to attract a...
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The French Difference: School Lunches in France
The French are Different (image by Henri Cartier-Bresson) We knew the French were different. Their famed style, their way of thinking, their politics and of course, the way they view the making and...
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The Twinkie Defense
Happy Childhood Memories Quick! When you think of your childhood kitchen, what are the foods you see? What were your favorite things to eat? What were the treats? What pops into your mind first. Don’t...
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Julie and Nora
Originally published 9/9/09 (wow). Nora Ephron died today. She was 71. By now anyone who’s reading this blog has seen Julie and Julia, the film about Julia Child’s years in France and the modern-day...
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Evolution: Starbuck’s $5 water soon to be extinct
Good. But not $5 worth of good. The lesson here should be: ask before you guzzle. The morning after my high school reunion and I stood in line at my regular Starbucks for my morning cuppa. The night...
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