I posed the question: “What can the consumer do to ensure all the effort put into creating your premium cigar doesn’t all fall apart if, for instance, if the cigar is purchased, then kept in a humidor that has a humidity level that isn’t optimum for that cigar? Should each consumer...
It starts off as a solid part but cooking can turn it into soft potato.Second, it makes our food safer to eat. Sometimes food has microbes (微生物) that could make us ill. However, most of these microbes don’t like really hot temperature. Cooking kills them, so they can’t make ...
I’m sure I don’t need to remind you that the perfect holiday gift is amere click away. People always say they have too many cookbooks, but they don’t really mean it. True, they might not be willing to buy one for themselves, but they will always happily accept one under the tree...
Mountain Potato (Japan): A root that is eaten raw and grated, often with raw tuna and a raw quail egg. When a mountain potato is grated, it secretes a translucent slime that is the exact consistency of mucus, yet is totally without flavor. Natto (Japan): Fermented beans. Even many J...
The Cassiole Orvieto is from the Orvieto region of Italy and made with the Trebbiano grape. I love this wine, I think it’s super food friendly and it is around $20 a bottle. Favorite New Red I love the red wines that come out of the Paso Roble region of California. I have got...
1 footlong Cold Cut Combo, on Italian bread with cucumbers and a ton of mayonnaise (ask that theydon’tcut it in half) 1 cup of Coca-Cola First things first; we’re going to need Coke reduction to use as a food coloring, sopour all the Coke in a non-stick skillet.Bring it to ...
But I realized recently that I had missed the point. I had missed the import of one word: autolysis. Bread starts with gluten. Flour has the potential of turning some of its proteins into gluten, that stretchy, strandy thing that binds the air into webs as it rises. Gluten is the cause...
Particularly, considering the wide-spread dissatisfaction with the Interior Ministry's Mubarak-style crackdown on dissent, the leaving of Interior Minister Mohamed Ibrahim and other controversial senior officials would take the heat off al-Sisi. Meanwhile, now that Egypt needs to form a new c...
I’ve been wrestling with this for a while. This is my 10th year blogging, and that’s an eternity in internet years. In fact, it’s the longest job I’ve ever had. It was also my favorite job. Sure, the pay stunk, but what else is new? Instead of raking in the dough, I ra...
It was there that I wrestled with the “what if’s” of life, along with the “what was’s”. Alone, but not truly. Within my thoughts, quietened in those moments, was also the presence of God. In that solitude, anxieties would get reigned in and perspective returned. The walk ...