It’s tasty, healthy, good looking, and almost sinfully easy … There’s times you really want to pull out the stops for a potluck and fix that specialty dish everyone asks for — rum cake at Christmas, three-tier dip for the Super Bowl bash, hot and spicy deviled eggs for the family reunion, that sort of thing. Then […]
Careful, though — it might spoil you for everything else … In the Appalachian foothills of Georgia and North Carolina, it’s easy to spot a good barbecue shack — you smell it before you see it. It’s that unmistakably intoxicating blend of hickory smoke, pork, and spices. Inside, you likely won’t find beef or chicken or ribs, […]
What the gospels got right, and wrong, about history’s most famous execution … Pontius Pilate was not in the best of moods. If not for these backward people and their festivals, he would be enjoying a glass of wine at his villa on the Mediterranean coast at Caesarea. Instead, he was stuck in dusty, sunburnt […]
And how you can cover them … Some folks are looking at that headline, thinking “You gotta be kiddin’ me!” I know, I know — Apple Corps Ltd wasn’t exactly the Amazon of the ’70s, and it’s given the Fab Four an enduring rap as inept businessmen. But hear me out, because first of all, Apple is […]
It’s both a science and an art … Ah, the diner hamburger — an American gustatory icon. As a fry cook in the early 1980s I grilled thousands of them, every one made to order. Never got tired of them either. If you’ve tried whipping up diner-style burgers at home, but you never seem to quite nail […]
Seuss Enterprises is neither a white knight nor a coward … On March 2nd, 2021, a mob of leather-skirted feminists, BLM Marxists, Antifa thugs, Venezuelan asylum-seekers, and betweeded professors of multi-cultural literature funded by George Soros stormed the Seuss Enterprise Building at 123 Mulberry Street in La Jolla, CA, holding the board of directors at […]
On post-modernism, Mr. Potato Head, and All in the Family … In the early months of 2021, Americans of a certain age had our childhoods canceled. In late February, Hasbro rebranded its “Mr. Potato Head” line of toys as “Potato Head”. Although the Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head figures hadn’t been changed or renamed at […]
Three-step system to increase off-holiday food supplies … In the summer of 1972, researchers from the Department of Psychology at New York University stole radios right in front of people on a beach. And by changing just one thing they did, they drastically raised the percent of observers who tried to stop them — from 20% […]
It’s not because they don’t want it… “Why didn’t he ask for help first? If we had only known, we would have done anything. Anything!” Nobody wants to be the one to say those words. And when we say them, we mean them. We mean them with all our heart and all our soul. But […]
Telling yourself “Don’t ever do that” isn’t mindfulness… Did you know, the Buddha wasn’t a vegetarian? Well, it’s true. The early Buddhists, including Siddhartha Gautama himself, were mendicants, eating whatever people gave them. In fact, one of the few biographical details credited by most historians about the Buddha is that he died at age 80 […]