Drew Kime, Author at How To Cook Like Your Grandmother

Review: Finishing Salt from The Meadow

July 30, 2010 (Updated March 20, 2014) by Drew Kime

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 to restaurants. I know that fleur de sel is the salt that chefs prefer. I've heard of pink Hawaiian salt and a few others. But boy, that's just scratching the surface. … [Read more...]

How To Drink More Water

July 29, 2010 (Updated March 20, 2014) by Drew Kime

Drink

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" -- isÂ sugar?) Lucky for me, back in college I dated a girl who drank Diet Coke. That's what she always had in her apartment, so whenever I was there that's what I drank. After a while "regular" colas started tasting sticky-sweet and I couldn't drink them any … [Read more...]

Vitaminwater … isn’t

July 28, 2010 (Updated March 20, 2014) by Drew Kime

Uncategorized Undieting

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. "In fact, vitaminwater is no more than non-carbonated soda, providing unnecessary added sugar and contributing to weight gain, obesity, diabetes, … [Read more...]

Blueberry Picking 2010

July 27, 2010 (Updated March 20, 2014) by Drew Kime

Uncategorized

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 us 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 bringing them along for the child labor. And you know what? Kids have no stamina when it comes to walking around an orchard picking berries from above your head. You'd think they could have told me … [Read more...]

Review: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Cheese Making

July 26, 2010 (Updated March 23, 2014) by Drew Kime

Dairy, Review

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 in it. How about it, any food anthropologists out there got some insight? What I do know is that when I was growing up cheese meant one of four things: white American slices we got at … [Read more...]