2005 Champagne Cork Chair Contest
Surfeit of Food Celebrities, Part 2: Separated at birth?
Ever wonder why you only see steam coming off a sauce when you turn off the heat? The scientific chef: Peter Barham on boiling milk “The steam becomes visible only after the gas cools below 100C and small water droplets condense.”
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Chicago Clean Air Ordinance and the smoking ban.
Everybody’s talking about “My Week as a Waiter” By Frank Bruni and how we should all read it and learn to treat our servers better. I’m going to start abusing my waiters now, on the off chance it might be Frank in disguise.
Iraqi Farmers Threatened By Bremer’s Mandates Number 8 of the top censored stories of 2006 “Smith explains that “Under the guise of helping Iraq back on its feet, the U.S. setting out to re-engineer the country’s traditional farming system into a U.S.-style corporate agribusiness.” In that traditional system, “97 percent of Iraqi farmers used their own saved seed or bought seed from local markets.” He continues, “Unfortunately, this vital heritage and knowledge base is now believed lost, the victim of the current campaign and the many years of conflict that preceded it.” More on this at FactoryFarming.com and at grain.org.