I’ve been feeling deprived of Asian food recently, so yesterday I had a drunken chicken sandwich for lunch at Baguette Box, and tonight I’m making lo mein for dinner, which raises an old and painful question. The noodle recipe I’m using is from Cook’s Illustrated, and like many of their Asian noodle recipes, it calls for […]
I’m reading the book Mindless Eating, by Brian Wansink, a Cornell professor who studies how context affects the amount of food we eat. Wansink is best known for his funny experiments, like the one where he rigged up a bottomless soup bowl from which you can eat Campbell’s tomato soup all day and never run out. […]
A few weeks ago, Iris invented this game called Sack of Potatoes, where I find an abandoned sack of potatoes (Iris) in the dining room and carry it into her room to make it into dinner. Did you know that potatoes can be made into, among other things, lasagna? We had people over this afternoon, so […]
Something I’ve often read in the media is that there’s no difference between eating chocolate and baking chocolate. I can only assume that the people who say this are selling very expensive chocolate. Now, I’m not trying to say that you shouldn’t pay a lot for good chocolate—I love some of Pralus’s $8 bars, and the […]
On my way to Whole Foods at Denny and Westlake, I stopped at Koots Green Tea, the new Seattle location of a Japanese tea chain. On the one hand, it’s a chain, with Starbucks-style design (high design standard, but canned feel). On the other hand, a tea chain is a cool idea, the prices are […]