(I don’t even remember who Laurie was talking about, and as you’ll see it’s irrelevant.) Laurie: I gather from looking at his web site that he’s an eccentric Englishman. Matthew: Oh yeah? On my web site, I’m Scottish. Iris: On my web site, I’m Sweden.
Today I was at Starbucks and there was a poster about the journey of coffee beans from bean to cup. Then, at the end, it said: “One journey ends with a sip, and another begins.” I should say so. The poster was in the bathroom. P.S.: There should be a mystery novel set in a […]
Two recent poblano sightings. The other day I stopped at Quizno’s (yes, I eat at Quizno’s) and had the Prime Rib Ranchero sandwich, which features fire-roasted poblanos. The sandwich was pretty spicy and you could totally taste the poblanos. Then at QFC I noticed a bag of C&W frozen mixed vegetables that included corn, black […]
On the smoky horizon, a silhouette. A gunslinger. No, a pen-slinger. Wait, “pen-slinger” sounds dirty. Let me start over. In a time when men and women slaved over dusty keyboards, crying out for clarification, there came a man. A man who reads your blog instead of doing his own work. A pedantic sort of man. […]
Today on Serious Eats: Cooking With Kids: Eat Your Veggies Honestly, my daughter is four now and hardly likes any vegetables, but the key to getting her to eat vegetables when she was younger was using plenty of butter, olive oil, or peanut oil. Not just because this made the vegetables taste better (this was […]
