When you receive your plate at a restaurant, do you give it a little turn before you start eating? Me too. Give it whatever evolutionary psychology-inspired reason you like; it’s just one of those cute quirks of human nature. I just noticed that I do something similar when I order at the counter. This morning I […]
Real Food (2006) Nina Planck 343 pages, $23.95 Everyone has heard of the scientific method, but few people seem to understand what it is. As a former science teacher, I feel a sense of responsibility about this, so here’s the one-minute version. The scientific method works like this: Make an observation. Form a hypothesis that fits the observation. Design and perform […]
Yesterday I went to the Columbia City Farmers Market in search of a chicken, and I came home with the chicken, some tomatoes, skinny green beans (you really can’t say haricots verts without sounding like a dick, can you?), squash blossoms, and tomatillos. Clearly I’m a tomatillo addict. Put me in front of a box […]
We drink tea. Not as much as the English people we know, but a couple of cups a day. Our favorite tea is PG Tips, which is the bestselling tea in England. It’s about what you would expect of the bestselling tea in England: unthreatening. It’s smooth and not very tannic. The second-bestselling tea in […]
Apparently, there were some strong opinions on the topic of weeding out the kitchen. Thanks! Since then, I’ve carted a load of cookbooks to Bailey-Coy and gotten rid of a bunch of non-kitchen-related stuff. I’m even going to sell my ukulele. But I’m still too nervous to face the kitchen head-on. Iris has caught the bug, too. […]