Food and Drink
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This may taste good to someone who has never eaten a biscuit. –Novelist Lee Smith's mother, on her first bagel From Lee Smith's memoir, Dimestore. Which I recommend. Bagels are fine. I've eaten a good many over the years. But they aren't as good as biscuits. And really I never quite got over the fact that
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Vanilla does not equal plain! It's a delicious flavor. –Jay Nordlinger of National Review, in a tweet posted on the magazine's web site. (No, I am not on Twitter and don't want to be.) I love vanilla ice cream, and for that matter vanilla almost anything. A few months ago I saw these in the grocery store
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My preferred alcoholic beverage is beer. I love beer. I'm not sure exactly when my willingness to drink beer for the sake of being grown-up (and drunk) turned into a real enjoyment of beer for its own sake, but I don't think it took very long. And it really solidified when I discovered beers with
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Are noodles pasta? This arose in connection with an incident related on Facebook in which a British-born wife requested that her American-born husband bring her some noodles, and was displeased when he brought her a species of pasta. It turns out there are some significant variations in usage of the term "noodle." As Wikipedia says:
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It was just over a year ago that I wrote about sampling this legendary substance: see this post and this one. I ended my reflection saying "I haven't been back to the Marmite jar. I do plan to finish it, but I probably won't replace it." And I more or less forget about it until a few months
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Not sure if this is going to play correctly–if it doesn’t, go here. That is, if you want to see how to make real gumbo. To my mind the phrase “seafood gumbo” is a little redundant. “Gumbo” is “seafood gumbo” unless you say otherwise. This young priest is at St. Mary’s in Mobile, where I
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Cooper's Oxford Marmalade: Excellent. Doesn't look like the orange marmalade we have here, which is, like, orange, probably with chemical assistance. This is brown. It has a bitter edge of orange peel, which I like and doesn't seem to be present in American marmalade anymore. I thought maybe that was just an effect of my
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Monday night my wife and I were watching one of the new Inspector Lewis mysteries (The Gift of Promise). There was a scene of a woman fixing breakfast, spreading something on a slice of toast. It was already past when I exclaimed "That's it!", hit rewind (or whatever it should be called now), and watched
Light On Dark Water 