Some people are wine snobs. Excuse me … connoisseurs. Others are chocolate snobs, or coffee snobs, or beer snobs. (I’ve heard some of them won’t even say they like beer — they like micro-brews.) But did you know that you can be a salt snob? I’ve heard stories of people who bring their own salt [...]
Soft drinks are mostly corn syrup. Most “juice” drinks aren’t much better. Even things that claim to be water are soft drinks with different marketing. (Are we not supposed to notice that the second ingredient — “crystalline fructose” — is sugar?) Lucky for me, back in college I dated a girl who drank Diet Coke. [...]
Image by tictoc6 What would you think is in a product called Vitaminwater? You’d probably guess water, and vitamins. Right? Not so fast: “For too long, Coca-Cola has been exploiting Americans’ desire to eat and drink more healthfully by deceiving them into thinking that vitaminwater can actually prevent disease,” said CSPI litigation director Steve Gardner. [...]
Some people have various fruits and berries growing all over their property. They just need to go outside and pick some. (I’m looking at you, Kristin.) Some of use have to drive over an hour each way to go to pick-your-own blueberry farms. We tell the kids it’s a fun outing, but really we’re just [...]
You don’t have to be a complete idiot to need help making cheese. But it helps. (Ba-dump-tish … thank you, I’ll be here all week.) Seriously though, cheese making isn’t something most of us learned growing up. Frankly, I wonder if this was ever a common skill, or if there were always people who specialized [...]
