by admin | May 23, 2023 | Blog
Some years ago I was in Hong Kong for a set of MS classes and exams. It was my first time there. The day before class started our local contact took us to one of his favorite haunts for lunch. It was a hole in the wall joint that specialized in noodles. The owner...
by admin | May 9, 2023 | Blog
There’s an episode of Spongebob SquarePants where he and Patrick Starr must somehow pass through the perfume section in a department store. Mind you this makes no sense given that the show takes place in Bikini Bottom, which happens to be underwater. But as they...
by admin | Apr 25, 2023 | Blog
This morning I woke up with a bit of a headache. That may not sound unusual, but it is. Thankfully, I rarely get headaches. The ones I do get usually precede an ailment of some kind like a cold, or they follow an initial pain in the bumpkus after too much driving in...
by admin | Apr 11, 2023 | Blog
Jamie Goode’s The Goode Guide to Wine: A Manifesto of Sorts is literally a pocket-sized personal philosophy about wine; from the tasting experience to commercial vs. artisan wine and beyond. In the preface, he states more than once that he fully expects the reader to...
by admin | Mar 28, 2023 | Blog
This post could have been titled “grease is good,” or “slip slidin’ down the hatch.” Or something else appropriately tacky and thus inappropriate. Truth is that frying things using various forms of fat, be it animal or otherwise, has long...
by admin | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog
How to Safely Open a Bottle of Bubbly Last summer, an accident with a Prosecco cork forced cyclist Biniam Girmay to withdraw from the famed Giro d’Italia bicycle race. Biniam is from Eritrea and the first Black African to win a stage of a grand tour cycling race. He...
