I learned quite a bit about wine during the 6 wonderful years that I called Santa Barbara, CA home. Wine tasting became a hobby, a social pastime, and during the summer I spent working at a local wine room, it was even my job. As much as I love drinking wine, and as much as I thought more »
In case you’ve thus far escaped the recent slew of western anti-quinoa propoganda, below are links to some of the articles that I’ve come across over the past few days.
Can vegans stomach the unpalatable truth about quinoa?
Westerners Devour Quinoa, While Poor Bolivians Can No Longer Afford Their Staple more »
Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
The title of the cookbook by Jennifer Resse (The Tipsy Baker) only scratches the surface. I picked the book up because I was intrigued by the promise of a cooking cost-benefit analysis, and happily the book provides just that.
Each recipe is accompanied by an more »
Hello pumpkin. Meet chocolate.
I’ve been dying to share this recipe with you since I made it.
These are the perfect brownies. I dream about these brownies. I daydream about these brownies. Heck I’m pretty much always thinking about how darn good these brownies were. They are hands down the best more »
Shortly after starting this blog, I discovered that in addition to his full-time job as a Professor at George Mason and maintaining the insightful economics blog Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen also curates a Dining Guide and recently released a book, entitled An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for Everyday more »
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