Posted in Philosophizing on Mar 26th, 2008
Oh, YaD! How neglected you must feel! (Not to mention my dedicated readers, who are no doubt checking in every night and crying themselves to sleep when they see no new posts!)
I’m doing a quick check in from 42 stories above the Big Easy. I have only about 48 hours to meet, network with, and [...]
Posted in Holidays, Philosophizing on Mar 18th, 2008
Sorry, I couldn’t resist the title.
The thoughts of the day are:
1) Does a glass of red wine cancel out a hardboiled egg? Or maybe it takes two glasses. (Yes, why not make it two?)
2) Could that be the real reason we drink so much wine on Passover?
These occurred to me as I read this and this.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 13th, 2008
Keswick Creamery’s stand at the Dupont Circle Farmers Market is where this stuff starts for me, but it can start with any good feta. The recipe below is a spread I’ve been making and highly recommend. It tastes similar to blue cheese dressing, which definitely works in its favor. C’mon, you know you love blue [...]
Posted in Asides on Mar 13th, 2008
I found myself wondering: are they serious?
Posted in Current events, Philosophizing on Mar 10th, 2008
I say “tar,” you say “jhay!”
Tar-jhay!
Tar-jhay!
Yes, Target is here. The oft-Frenchly-pronounced-with-irony big box sailed in last week to anchor DC USA, the first non-snooty mall in the District.
And it’s got a café.
Posted in Recipes on Mar 6th, 2008
Remember those Total commercials? Where they stacked up the bowls and said this is how many you’d have to eat of such and such a cereal to get as much vitamin A as Total, and you’d have to eat that many bowls of the other cereal to get as much beta hydrodalius or whatever? Well, [...]
Posted in Belly laugh on Mar 4th, 2008
Bread is so basic that most people don’t think about it or where it came from. But if you consider it, bread is a really odd invention, right up there with coffee and sausage. Can you imagine a primitive dude deciding it would be a good idea to harvest hard, bitter beans, burn them to [...]
