I imagine I missed a week or two, and then who knows what happened! May 17, 2020 What's Pat Been Up To? May 2020 I know we are in the middle of a pandemic, and we tend to be repeating the same boring days over and over again, but somehow it feels like only last week ...
LUSK: There’s nothing about the coronavirus that I’m aware of that is going to make people hungrier. I think what’s happened is, we are moving inventory from warehouses and grocery stores into our pantries and our refrigerators. So it almost has to be a short-term demand shock becaus...
Maltodextrin can alter the texture somewhat, since it is often used as a thickener. However, maltodextrin usually has a very fine texture. I doubt that it is the maltodextrin that is causing the gritty texture in the peanut butter; possibly it has more to do with the preparation process used...
The playoffs are a tough time, when I want all my favorite players to have transcendent, legendary, career-making experiences… while their teams still lose. But someone has to win every round, and so it may as well have happened like this: John Tavares, middle school science teacher, regi...
But then the morning picked up speed and I mentally gave the snail back into the care of the universe, acknowledging the likelihood that we would probably never know what had happened to it. A week passed and we all forgot about the snail. Then one night when I went in to feed the ...
I wish everybody well, but would just like to respond to a chef who is eating every thing for 15 years and nothing happened to him. I wish him all the health and hoping nothing happens to him. However, the statistics are not in his favor. Human body has an immune system that protect...
The first few times I went to a lake party two things always happened; 1. I stumble home and 2. I would be told by the residents that living in this neighborhood is, ” A LITTLE PIECE OF PARADISE”. Everyone who lives here is very close, eerily close and I’m thinking this ...
I wish everybody well, but would just like to respond to a chef who is eating every thing for 15 years and nothing happened to him. I wish him all the health and hoping nothing happens to him. However, the statistics are not in his favor. Human body has an immune system that protect...
Every time one of these FIRE-ees announces their return to work, I think of another soldier falling to cannon-fire amid the thinning ranks of a Napoleonic line. I take it personally, I suppose. Why? Because if it happened to them, it can happen to me. I’ve banked a lot on FIRE...
the weight. Yes, discipline and control are truly hard pills to swallow, so show us great-tasting fat-free food that doesn’t go to our hips, please. That’s exactly what happened in 1998 when Frito-Lay introduced Lay’s, Doritos, and Ruffles WOW Chips, fat-free chips made with ...