Who’s hawking waffles in today’s paper? Me.
> Serve with a mug of hard cider. Did you know they drink cider from mugs in Brittany? Probably they use some kind of antique, hand-thrown number, but a university-logo coffee mug strikes me as adequately nostalgic.
Also in today’s Seattle Times, in the very same section, a profile of my friends Shauna and Danny, better known as [Gluten-Free Girl](http://glutenfreegirl.com/) and The Chef.
I was eating this waffle the other night and I thought the trail of syrup and smudge of blueberry sauce looked kind of artistic, so I took a picture.
[The Roots and Grubs T-shirt Emporium](http://zazzle.com/mamster*)
This is a great day for civilization in general and Roots and Grubs readers in particular. The shirts are here!
Two designs are available, and you can get each in a huge variety of styles and colors, including baby and child sizes. You can even get organic cotton.
The “faces” logo was designed by Eric Zirkle and Dana Craig Zirkle. The “silverware” logo was designed by [Misty Granade](http://granades.com/). All of whom rock.
Note that you can get either logo in a full-shirt format or lapel size. Roll over the shirts in the gallery to see what I mean. (Also, the small-logo shirts have “small” in the name.)
Both of these logos will work best on a light-colored shirt. If you try ordering a black shirt and they look all psychedelic, well, welcome to That 70s Shirt.
Enjoy!
This week on [Serious Eats](http://www.seriouseats.com/):
[Cooking with kids: A food-related board game](http://www.seriouseats.com/required_eating/2007/09/cooking-with-kids.html)
> Iris wants to be the cupcake chef every time. I like the stir-fried noodle chef, although the sliced scallions look more than a little like eyeballs. Every time I pull the soy sauce tile, Iris, who has been known to steal tofu from my pad Thai, says, “No, that’s fish sauce.” The best part of Crazy Chefs is when Iris pulls a tile she doesn’t need for her card and notices that Mom or Dad needs it. “Hmm…I don’t need red onions,” she’ll say slyly, replacing the tile.
I’m at Shinka Tea, a new tea shop on Olive Way that opened last week. They specialize in flavored and sweetened teas but were happy to make me a cup of genmaicha for $2. More teas are on the way, the owner told me. Bubble tea is also available, and I promised Iris she could try a bubble tea ball soon. The wi-fi is solid. They’ve given the space a nice Japanese minimalism.
Not that I would try to lure anyone away from [Remedy Teas](http://www.remedyteas.com/), but this place is empty. Nice for me, since I don’t feel guilty about using it as my office and making phone calls, but not so nice for them. 1703 E Olive Way at Boylston.