there. If you want to know how out of control it burned, you should read about it. People went to the guillotine because a neighbor thought they were too stingy with the potatoes served at the potluck and no, not joking. Yes, maybe Americans will be different. We are in so many t...
Each day people make decisions about complex topics such as health and personal finances. Causal models of these domains have been created to aid decisions, but the resulting models are often complex and it is not known whether people can use them succes
I am out of town this weekend with limited email access. While this blog has been active for four years and I have posted at least 500 recipes or more, many readers have a tendency to have only forward vision, meaning they tend to find the blog, then if
It all started about a month ago, Valentine’s day to be exact. I was serving dinner for three couples and the theme was red. So, there I was looking at a bag of split red lentils and wondering how to make them look more red. Raw, red lentils are at best an orangy color and co...
I've experienced this firsthand. I had a boss who would go to lunch with our office every week at the nearby Mexican restaurant. He'd drink one too many margaritas and pry us for the juicy details of our lives. Then he'd casually sneak to the bathroom or outside to make a phone ...
“We’re doing potluck this year and would love for you to join us. You don’t have to bring anything but yourself unless there’s a favorite dish you’d like to introduce us to.” “Is there a movie you’ve been looking forward to seeing sometime? Let’s go see it together.”...
Every week there are lunches at local restaurants (and HP picks up the tab), potluck dinners, skill-share sessions, “deep meaningful conversations” (which sound a bit odd as a formalized thing, but were real highlights!), and social evening events that pave the way for everybody to conn...
On the tiny Island of Providencia off the coast of Colombia, are a couple ofbeach shacks serving fresh seafood. There are only a few restaurants on the island, so the locals come by motorbike, ATV and horseback to grab their lunch along side the few dozen tourists visiting the island. The...
You may not want to insult your friends by avoiding their potluck offerings. But there's reason for concern if the food is left unrefrigerated for too long. Follow the2-hour rule:Don't eat potluck dishes that have been sitting at room temperature for longer than 2 hours. When temperature...
At work, she writes, don’t be afraid to ask for a raise – 68 per cent of women don’t. While there is still much work to do to achieve gender equity, Rogan notes that “we don’t have to look far to find amazing examples of countries advancing gender equality every year.” “...