Philosophy
Why have liquid mainstays of the confectionery landscape like the malt, the phosphate, and the egg cream (and, to a lesser extent, the float) disappeared? Fast food has turned the soda and the milkshake from desserts to meal accompanying drinks and there was a revival in the flavored soda (vanilla and cherry coke), but their formerly popular cousins are nowhere to be found. Why?
- Best Potluck Dish
Off today to the kids' end of school year picnic at a park near their school. It is pot luck, although different grades get assigned different courses. This year, we are desserts, so I worked up pina colada and black forest trifles. I find trifles...
- Bidirectional Words
So, this morning driving into school, the older of the short people asks me if there is a name for the class of words that spell a different word backwards. Palindromes are the special case where it is the same word in either direction, but what of the...
- Good Ice Cream=good Politics -- A Wildly Hasty Generalization
A generalization from two data points: (1) Ben and Jerry -- morally good guys, great ice cream (new flavor -- bananas on the rum is bananas foster in a cone and outstanding. Well worth the calories.) (2) Margaret Thatcher -- it's a little known fact...
- Extreme "nannyism"--government Control Of Food Stamps And Carbonated Beverages
This is totally absurd. Freedom of choice is gone. The assumption is that all people gain weight [and become obese] when drinking carbonated beverages...obesity is bad...therefore, those that use food stamps must not spend money on carbonated beverages....
- Culinary Books--old
Othmer Library... Culinary chemistry: Culinary chemistry, exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary...
Philosophy
Just Desserts
Why have liquid mainstays of the confectionery landscape like the malt, the phosphate, and the egg cream (and, to a lesser extent, the float) disappeared? Fast food has turned the soda and the milkshake from desserts to meal accompanying drinks and there was a revival in the flavored soda (vanilla and cherry coke), but their formerly popular cousins are nowhere to be found. Why?
- Best Potluck Dish
Off today to the kids' end of school year picnic at a park near their school. It is pot luck, although different grades get assigned different courses. This year, we are desserts, so I worked up pina colada and black forest trifles. I find trifles...
- Bidirectional Words
So, this morning driving into school, the older of the short people asks me if there is a name for the class of words that spell a different word backwards. Palindromes are the special case where it is the same word in either direction, but what of the...
- Good Ice Cream=good Politics -- A Wildly Hasty Generalization
A generalization from two data points: (1) Ben and Jerry -- morally good guys, great ice cream (new flavor -- bananas on the rum is bananas foster in a cone and outstanding. Well worth the calories.) (2) Margaret Thatcher -- it's a little known fact...
- Extreme "nannyism"--government Control Of Food Stamps And Carbonated Beverages
This is totally absurd. Freedom of choice is gone. The assumption is that all people gain weight [and become obese] when drinking carbonated beverages...obesity is bad...therefore, those that use food stamps must not spend money on carbonated beverages....
- Culinary Books--old
Othmer Library... Culinary chemistry: Culinary chemistry, exhibiting the scientific principles of cookery, with concise instructions for preparing good and wholesome pickles, vinegar, conserves, fruit jellies, marmalades, and various other alimentary...