Food:
Every Friday (more or less) there's a "Faculty Social Hour" on campus. They have cheese and crackers, a fairly random assortment of beer, and a couple of bottles of wine, and various faculty come by to wind down a bit...
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Posted on April 26, 2008 3:32 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Super Bowl is Sunday, and a look in the fridge shows that I'm low on beer. What sort of beer should I buy to drink with the game?
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Posted on February 1, 2008 9:18 AM • 32 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
... or, Emmy's Best Thanksgiving Ever!
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Posted on November 25, 2007 5:21 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
While we're being all charitable, here's a link to FreeRice's charity vocabulary quiz. It's pretty simple: They give you odd words, you guess the meanings, and for each word you get right, they donate 10 grains of rice to an...
Posted on October 18, 2007 11:51 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As noted here in the past, I had horrible stomach problems for a good chunk of last year. This was diagnosed as "Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease" or "GERD," which basically amounts to "Your stomach hurts." After a number of deeply unsatisfactory...
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Posted on October 6, 2007 8:49 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I was just reminded again of a mysterious thing in Yokohama, that some readers may be able to help with. One of the first nights we were in Yokohama, I went up to the bar on the 70th floor, just...
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Posted on September 24, 2007 3:24 PM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Dining highlights from Takayama.
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Posted on September 23, 2007 1:41 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Two words: Beef Sushi...
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Posted on September 12, 2007 11:18 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Daniel Davies claims that Budweiser is good beer, and he's right, to a point.
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Posted on May 12, 2007 11:32 AM • 22 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A really basic shrimp and rice dish from Mark Bittman's "The Best Recipes in the World."
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Posted on February 25, 2007 9:43 AM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A couple of times a year, our department secretary will organize potluck luncheons, and badger the faculty into cooking things and bringing them in for a big gathering in the conference room. We invite all the students, and everybody eats...
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Posted on February 13, 2007 9:20 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Well, that was a cranky post. Not a good start for New Year's Day, is it? To make up for that, how about a good recipe: Cheesy Poof (From Alton Brown's I'm Just Here for More Food) Ingredients: 270 g...
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Posted on January 1, 2007 10:13 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at the World's Fair, David has a post with pictures showing a week's worth of food for families in various countries. It's pretty eye-opening-- the total volume of food (less packaging) for a family of four in the US...
Posted on November 30, 2006 8:25 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We had an enormous turkey carcass left over at the end of Thanksgiving dinner, so I said "Hey, turkey soup." The basic idea is simplicity itself-- cut the carcass into managable pieces, stick it in a big put, cover it...
Posted on November 25, 2006 5:15 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Thanksgiving advice from Making Light got here too late to do us any good, but we had a fine first Thanksgiving anyway. My parents, sister, grandmother, and one of my great-aunts came up from New York, and Kate's parents...
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Posted on November 24, 2006 2:59 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The post title kind of says it all...
Posted on August 14, 2006 9:25 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
