I guess ice cream lovers everywhere. But the “let them eat cake” comparisons are irresistible and inevitable (although you probably won’t see them emanating from the left): We all have found our ways to keep our spirits up during these … Continue reading →
Do you know where your flowers are? I’m not a big Valentine’s Day person. For one thing, my drafted boyfriend was inducted into the army on that day in 1968. For another – and over thirty years later – my … Continue reading →
Let’s have something lighter – or heavier, as the case may be. I always wanted to know how buffet restaurants manage to do well financially, because so many are rather inexpensive. And now I do. Every now and then I … Continue reading →
And what could be better than a jello fishbowl from Martha Stewart? Here’s a photo: Recipe at the link. Looks pretty easy.
Continue reading →When I was a child, Thomas’ English muffins were a staple of my breakfast. They had crisp nooks and crannies into which butter loved to slide, and they were just the right combination of textures of soft and hard. I … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Regulars here may remember that most years I put up a family Christmas recipe. And here it is again, with a slight but important change in the size of the baking pans.] This recipe was brought over from Germany … Continue reading →
Li ZiQi is a phenomenally successful YouTube star from China who seems to me to be a cross between Martha Stewart and Vermeer, 21st Century style. I discovered her recently via Gerard Vanderleun’s American Digest blog, and I find her … Continue reading →
Observational nutritional studies are inherently unreliable. I think that’s rather obvious. And most nutritional studies are observational. So we have this situation: …[N]utrition research critics, such as John Ioannidis of Stanford University…point out that observational nutrition studies are essentially just … Continue reading →
When I decided to title this post “the enemies of civilization”, I didn’t mean what’s often meant by the phrase: barbarians who plunder and murder and rape and pillage. I’m talking about the sort of thing Sarah Hoyt was referring … Continue reading →
…visiting friends. I also had a yen to see sunset over Lake Champlain, and just to get away and do something a bit different. I had a good meal. The weather was fabulous. I saw a fascinating exhibit of the … Continue reading →
I’ve already expressed my own experience with very low-carb diets, many times. Simply put: I can’t stand them and I lose very little weight on them, and what’s more they make me feel ill. If you say to me “but … Continue reading →
…before they decide they’re not good for you again. That article, about the back-and-forth and back-and-forth on eggs and cardiovascular health, illustrates what’s wrong with most nutritional research in humans. Way too many uncontrolled variables. A reliance on self-reports. No … Continue reading →