Have you ever noticed how our society is consumed (no pun intended) by food shapes? It’s “tradition,” I suppose. But when was the last time you made bread in a hexagonal pan? How about blondies in a small bundt pan? When was the last time you cut homemade pasta into curly mustache shapes? Or rolled sugar cookies [...]
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I like butts. Bread butts, that is. More formally put, these are the end-most pieces of a loaf. Most people probably don’t like them. After all, who wants to eat bread butt sandwiches, bread butt toast, or bread butt pudding? Many bread consumers buy loaves and avoid the bread butts altogether. By the time the loaves’ innards are eaten, [...]
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Ever have one of those days? Surely everyone does at one point or another. It’s a Monday morning, you’re suffering on 5 or fewer hours of sleep, and new weekday expectations of productivity are bearing down on you. You forgot to eat breakfast because, well, you were too tired and out of it to consider [...]
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It’s been getting colder. And colder. And it will surely get even colder in the midst of winter. Quite frankly, I could easily live with forgoing winter. The Earth’s seasonal cycle could spontaneously change to just spring, summer, and autumn, and I wouldn’t shed a tear. With the daily high temperatures dipping into the twenties, [...]
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The other day, I saw one of those Tofurky faux turkeys at the grocery store. And it got me thinking. Sure, some vegetarians miss the taste of meat, and these are the individuals for whom such a product is appropriate. Yet, there are also many who became vegetarian for the purpose of avoiding meat’s taste, [...]
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I have a terrible habit of wringing my hands. It’s not something I intentionally do. But whenever I’m elated, sad, angry, bored, or especially nervous, I wring my hands. Because the habit covers a wide span of emotions, I end up wringing my hands a lot. Coincidentally, cooking and baking require extensive use of one’s [...]
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