Do you know how, once a little thing or two have disrupted your routine, it can be incredibly hard to get back into that routine again? It’s been quite some time since I’ve posted here, never mind blogged regularly. I haven’t been cooking much that’s interesting, so I’ve had a shortage of things to blog [...]
Mark Bittman must have read my post on oatmeal last week (he must have, right? Why else would he be thinking about oatmeal?), because he’s written a surprising post about oatmeal at McDonald’s. Granted, it’s really, really hard for McDonald’s to do anything that surprises me – but would you have guessed that their version [...]
Happy weekend! To celebrate, enjoy this comic from The Oatmeal. Is this why you don’t cook at home? The blogger in me wants to wax eloquent on the lessons of this comic, but really, that would be missing the point. Key takeaway is: if that’s the cookbook you’re working with, and it’s keeping you from [...]
Oprah’s taking auditions for shows on her tv network, which I guess means that Oprah has a tv network now. (You see how closely I follow these things.) My aunt shared with me an audition from her friend Celia Chacon, who wants to do a cooking show. The catch: Celia is blind. What a great [...]
I love the idea of Meatless Mondays: to eat less meat, have one day of the week devoted to meatless meals. It makes it easy to plan for eating less meat, helps home cooks learn new vegetarian dishes, and even makes it easier to eat less meat during the rest of the week. There are [...]
A few months ago, Michael Pollan wrote an editorial in the NY Times urging Americans to cook more. Feminists called him out, claiming that this burden would inevitably fall on women rather than men, and called him sexist. I disagree – I think we do need to cook more, and both men and women should [...]
Among the many excuses for not cooking, working late is a really popular one. You worked long hours, you’re tired, you’re probably stressed and you’re definitely hungry by the time you get home. You want nothing more than to toss something in the microwave and settle down to watch the Simpsons (or, depending on how [...]
This afternoon, I saw Julie & Julia, and it was excellent. It isn’t really a movie about food – it’s a great movie where food happens to play a major role. There’s plenty of amazing-looking food to make you hungry (and by the time I left the theater, I sure was hungry!), but the most [...]
I’ve been hearing bits and pieces recently about how Canada Dry is now selling ginger ale with green tea in it. Yesterday, I heard it advertised on the radio for the first time. I’m a little baffled. I can see how the flavors of ginger and green tea would go well together (ginger green tea [...]
There’s some confusion in the world about exactly what “organic” means – in fact, it means less than you think. Organic food – essentially food certified that it was made without pesticides – can still be junk food, and can still be unhealthy. Mark Bittman has a great article this week about how the “organic” [...]