Posts Tagged: Food and Drink
Wood
Posted by on Thursday, March 23, 2006 in - 4 comments
In another in my continuing series of elemental considerations...who knew there was such a crunch on: • “The Chinese government is introducing a 5% tax on disposable wooden chopsticks in a bid to preserve its forests. It produces about 45 billion pairs of chopsticks a year, consuming millions of …
Boo, Modernity, Booooo!!!
Posted by on Thursday, March 23, 2006 in - 4 comments
I hate when stuff like this happens: • “Health concerns and demands for greater efficiency have led many employers to restrict supplies and encourage workers to cut back on their drinking.” • In my adult life, I remember the day when Moosehead Breweries cut off the free beer tap for the …
Stewed Fruit And Crust
Posted by on Wednesday, March 22, 2006 in - 4 comments
Last evening I was witness to a dish of wild blueberries, oats butter and sugar: blueberry crisp. But then I thought for a moment that it might have been blueberry crumble when I was a kid. I knew we never called it Blueberry Brown Betty but others in school might have. Brown Better always struck …
March Productivity Madness
Posted by on Monday, March 20, 2006 in - leave a comment
Unusually for me, I did the right thing and took Thursday and Friday off and never checked out the free on-line streaming internet version of the CBS coverage of March Madness last week during work hours: • “CBS Corp.'s decision to broadcast the annual March Madness college basketball tournament …
Orangeness and NCAA pool
Posted by on Sunday, March 12, 2006 in - 2 comments
Needless to say it was a great evening watching Syracuse beat Pitt in a hard-fought and yet respectful game for the Big East championship. Also suffice it to say that while I am not a person to want a 180 lb television set, I am grateful that I know others with 180 lb television sets. I helped as …
Tobin's First Prize Hots
Posted by on Tuesday, January 31, 2006 in - 28 comments
I lived a little dream. One stage in my investigation of the NY hot. This may seem odd to those that do not know me but I like this sort of stuff. I find it very interesting to have a very basic food item which in Canada would not be the focus of a restaurant and would really be considered a kids …
What Would You Say About Beer?
Posted by on Thursday, January 26, 2006 in - 3 comments
Home sick from work today, I was interested to find this note in the email for the beer blog this afternoon. Last November, I wrote about the efforts to create a unified advertising campaign in the US about the goodness of beer. Well, today's correspondent appears to be involved in that effort. He …
Branding Mastered V
Posted by on Friday, January 20, 2006 in - 7 comments
I think branding and logos and such should at least connect. While I cannot expect you will not Google this, I am very surprised to realize that I have never appreciated a certain product proclaims itself as "Canada's Ambassador to the World". Has anyone noticed this before?
Again With the Friday Chat Already
Posted by on Friday, January 20, 2006 in - 30 comments
What a week. If I could tell you of my troubles, well, let me just say that I am sure there would be more than one Trabant in the postal system for to ease my soul. So what to talk about? • How about some election questions. Don't point the finger at others in answering these. Point it solely at …
Coffee Snob II
Posted by on Monday, January 16, 2006 in - 4 comments
All of a sudden, Kicking Horse Coffee from British Columbia is on sale here in Kingston. Organic, fair trade, shade grown and even Calgary kosher - there are more logos on this package than...on something with lots of logos. • It is very good. Glistening beans. Other places we had tried recently …
