A couple years back, the Times of London printed a great feature, excerpted from a book, entitled What scientists believe but can’t prove. A couple of sample answers: “I believe in the final triumph of the good guy.” “I believe but I cannot prove that God exists.” “I believe that Mozart was a better composer […]
Forgive me if I say anything silly here, because I know almost nothing about manga. While researching an upcoming column about sake, however, I punched the word “sake” into my local library catalog and came up with a few guides to sake (of which the best is The Sake Handbook and something called Oishinbo A […]
Rhubarb season is back, and I went to Pike Place Market this afternoon for the makings of a crumble and a batch of compote. I also stopped at Delaurenti for one of their chocolate chip cookies, which I learned about in a recent issue of Seattle Magazine and which I am forced to admit are […]
It would not be entirely true to say that I am, like Roger Ebert and Andy Ihnatko, a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. But my most recent Culinate column, about potato hash, was reprinted in the Sun-Times this week: Leftover meat, poultry? Think hash! It ran in the print edition on Wednesday as well as […]
