The traditional coffeehouse is never to be confused with the recent proliferation of corporate-owned and operated cookie-cutter chain coffee shop/cafes brought to us by Starbucks and others. If you think a Starbucks is a “coffeehouse,” try dressing down, taking your guitar and smokes with you into one, sit down and light up and start to [...]
If there is one thing that really gets to me, it’s not being able to get to the last remaining delicious scrapings of jam, peanut butter, or Vegemite out of the jar it’s sold in. When I was a kid, companies used to offer their products in highly sensible glass containers like tumblers with a [...]
The two tractors pulled up side by side, two elderly farmers discussing the harvest, and the effect of the weather on the grapes. Their trailers, one full, one empty, who’s grapes were already being crushed and filtered finished their conversation and departed on their John Deer tractors.
Like many noncooks, I have a distinct yearning for the taste of yester-year. Martha has compiled a cookery book of recipes that appeal to our palette as well as our memories. I hate recipes where I have to know what is what and where to find it and which wine to serve with it. All [...]
If there was ever a food product to invoke fond memories of youth and brotherhood in ex serviceman, it can only ever be one thing – Bully Beef. At the time, like me, you grew heartily sick of the sight, smell and taste of it. Back then that was the norm among servicemen. You were [...]
Chocolate Consumption The chocolate industry is an $8 billion-a-year business. The United States is the world’s leader in the production and importation of chocolate candy. Most women in the United States prefer to get chocolate instead of flowers, especially women over the age of 50. In the U.S., females 30 to 39 years old and [...]
My wife, Ms Cami, forwarded an email to me with the subject line “EAT LOTS OF SWEET POTATOES”. These are the emails that want you to send to all your friends so futrue spam mails will arrive at their in-box. However, since I love to cook and learn about food, this one intrigued me. SO [...]
With Christmas day barely a month away, celebrity chefs and supermarket chains here in the UK are already sparring with each other for the consumer’s hard earned UK pound. Now read on… “A rare Heston Blumenthal Christmas pudding for Waitrose is open for bids on eBay, but it’s not the only supermarket Christmas fare that’s [...]
Every year hundreds of thousands of people are sickened by food poisoning and in the U.S., 5000 people die. Improper food handling is the number one cause of these illnesses and fatalities. And the holiday season is prime time for food poisoning. Every year methods circulate about unconventional ways to cook a turkey. These are [...]
Not counting the rare exception, I would say that my diet is almost completely vegan. I know, saying I’m “almost” vegan, is like saying I’m a “little” pregnant, but there is a complex history to this situation. For those unfamiliar with the term, a vegan is someone that does not eat meat, dairy or animal [...]
