You might have noticed the new doodad in the sidebar there on the left. It says “Foodie Postcards“. Its a way to, should you feel the hankering, buy postcards with some of my images on them. This is not a huge money making enterprise for me but I thought I would try it out. I...

Let me just start by welcoming all you new visitors to my site from stumbleupon. You all stumbled my site several months ago and I saw this curious spike in traffic, like 500 more hits one day than was usual. Thats when I first learned about this social networking site. This last Sunday, I think,...

So, as you learn more about the technical aspects of blogging and the search-o-sphere (my term so dont freak if you have not heard it before) you will learn one thing consistently – that you know even less than you thought you did on your most modest-ego day. You could get lost for days in...

Today I read the article “He Cooks. She Stews. It’s Love” in the New York Times (online edition) and it had me thinking. The premise of the article is that often times a couple will have an Alpha cook and a Beta cook. We all know what alpha means, its a play off of the...

Yeah, there is a very good reason why I didn’t have kids until AFTER I was done with grad school. Even the very simple process of viewing my traffic or, god forbid, writing this blog entry is surrounded by the profound chaos of children who think that mommies should never blog, period. If you are...

So, I have to admit to this disturbing dynamic in my eating habits – my mouth doesn’t water over vegetables. I know from childhood and our acre garden in Iowa what fresh lettuce and spinach tastes like as you pick it right off the plant. Same for strawberries. Yet, when I walk in the vegetable...

(Image Source – The Whole Brain Atlas – Harvard University)Without a doubt, almost every single person I have met through food blogging has been kind, thoughtful, and so open to trying new things. These are things I really admire and are what I envision is the best in people. Its not an impossibly high standard...

I am a big reader for sure. I am well schooled in sci-fi, going way back. I read wide into fantasy and spy. None of this is terribly literate, I completely agree. For my own literary development, I read better things like Dorothy Dunnett. I even read some books JUST to get in touch with...

Swinging Bacon – Image Source: Alinea Restaurant food gallery Today I cruised over to Slashfood and saw a post regarding the Gastronomie blog‘s day by day expose (a delicious and curious one) on her visit to Alinea in Chicago.I have never visited Alinea but from the accounts you read on Gastronomie and eGullet, it is...

It seems that there has been some discussion on prions over at eGullet recently. I found it interesting that there were so many eGullet regulars that are actually scientists. There are also a few people that seem to contribute to be contrary (and have knee jerk bias against any sort of warning against a food...