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...
by admin | Feb 28, 2023 | Blog
A mystery of fluid dynamics that was first noticed by Leonardo—and that’s flummoxed scientists for centuries—has apparently been solved. And we are glad for it. Over 500 years ago, da Vinci was watching bubbles floating in water. When you’re the greatest...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | Blog
©Gary Larson At some point in the past I read a piece about what’s called the Marginal Utility Theory. It supposedly has to do with economics. The article explained the theory as follows: Imagine you have two farmers. Farmer A has three cows. Farmer B has 100...
by admin | Dec 18, 2022 | Blog
My tasting book is finally “live.” If you’re dangerously excited by that prospect and don’t want to bother with all the descriptive text below, you can just go to the following link on Amazon and order a copy or two: Otherwise, here’s some pertinent...
