Up until last year, of course, I was obliged to laugh at Pi Day, because – as any fule kno – the date is properly written 14/3, not 3/14. However, hubris is its own reward, and here I am in … Continue reading
Tag Archives: In Your Food
I really hadn’t expected this, when I moved from the UK to California. I knew that some ingredients would be hard or impossible to come by, just as some would be utterly new – but a cow’s a cow, right? … Continue reading
Preserves, conserves. Jams and marmalades (anyone for onion marmalade? or oxtail marmalade?). Pickles and chutneys. Canning and bottling and smoking and drying and salting and and and. Every nation has its own methods and traditions, its own terminology – and, … Continue reading
Some call it emigration or immigration, depending on their point of view (and PoV, as we know, is all-important). Some call it exile, or translocation, or fleeing-the-country. Whatever you choose to call it, the facts remain: we have shifted two … Continue reading
The treats discussion got me thinking about other convenient foods. I like fresh fruit, but if I’m traveling I may have to settle for something in a package. POP QUIZ: Which is healthiest – chocolate fudge pudding, strawberry gelatin, or … Continue reading
Ah yes – the annual question: what to give the ghoulies that will soon be at the door. The traditional offering is, of course, heaps of sugar. Some of these contain corn syrup or other forms of corn. Others are … Continue reading
Been a busy week. Lots of reading. I haven’t had time to check out all these articles. Interested in the GMO discussion, because of my friend’s problem with GMO corn. Don’t know which if any of these are good articles, … Continue reading
Before I begin, here’s a sobering link I spotted yesterday: Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? There’s no question that the average American diet (or what this article calls the Standard American Diet, or SAD) includes way too much sugar. That’s … Continue reading
This week’s post is a little different. I wanted to talk about an important news story that broke yesterday. Here’s a link to it at dailymail.co.uk, one of the first papers to report. Man wins $7MILLION in ‘Popcorn Lung’ lawsuit … Continue reading
Fall is here! What could be better on a cold, drizzly day than a bowl of hot soup? Get out your magnifying glass. Some of these labels are tiny. Let’s start with an all-time favorite: chicken noodle. Good for what … Continue reading