I challenge you to read Omnivores Dilemma, Fast Food Nation, and Pandora’s Lunchbox and not change how you eat and view the food industry. I read all three this year and I cannot eat like I once did. Omnivores Dilemma Omnivores Dilemma reveals the pervasive intrusion of corn into our food. This is not the…
Category: Food and drink
Polcari’s Italian, Woburn, MA
This is an old Italian American place, we don’t have these in Seattle. Good house Chiante, and Spicy Diavolo flatbread.
Share a meal with a friend
Over the last twenty years or so I discovered genuine cooking. Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s I experienced, unknowingly, a transformation that made the task of family food preparation easier and less expensive, while sacrificing quality and health in the process. Processed food must have seemed like manna from Heaven, it was cheap…
A lesson in customer service, I hope they learn it
Now it is important to know that I was charming and pleasant, I guarantee that. And I must emphasize that the staff at the Farmer’s Market by Laguna Culinary Arts (link to Yelp) were fine, and as helpful as they could be. I was on the 5.30pm flight from John Wayne Airport headed back to Seattle,…
Goat Song, a delightful memoir stirring my pastoral urges
Goats are cute, add in a bit of attitude and that they are the source of chèvre, and they are wonderful. I had a milk goat once, my boys drank goats milk for a couple of years. Brad Kessler’s Goat Song: Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Cheese Making triggered warm memories…
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