What are you swapping in for what you are swapping out? Gluten-free is so pervasive these days isn't it? Everyone has an opinion on gluten-free baking results. I personally am not a fan of the pre-mixed flours you can buy in the stores or online. You really have to be a label-reader to see what you are swapping in for what you are swapping out - and honestly, I like the less is more approach when it comes to the ingredient lists. Today … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2015
Change, Ego and Why Money Isn’t Everything, Even in New York – The Four Seasons
photo courtesy New York Times Ok, I may just be a little cranky today. I'm going to lose my beloved dog and I'm beyond devastated about it. And yes, I need something else to become fixated on today…….. to yap about, to become full of ire about, in order that I might not just turn to mush. It didn't take me too long to find it once I opened the newspaper. I already knew the story. The article just became a vehicle of convenience. Well, … [Read more...]
In Defense of Farm-to-Table; Mad Men and Some Comments on Mr. Kummer’s Article
image courtesy Matthew Weiner and AMC Well, so many people have been mourning the end of the series Mad Men over the last few days. (Not to mention the end of David Letterman.) courtesy the New Yorker Well, actually, many have been in mourning since the end of the show was announced in 2013. And, perhaps herein lies the problem, or should I say an illustration of the "Mad Men effect". That would be "our" so-typical propensity to … [Read more...]
Land of All Answers
Cellini, the family Medici, the Borgias, Vivaldi, Dante, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Francis of Assisi, Julius Caesar, Columbus, Fellini, Caruso, Galileo, Da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, Garibaldi, Pavarotti, Marco Polo, Stradivari, Verdi, Puccini, Rossini, Scarlatti, Bellini, Machiavelli, Andrea Amati, Marconi…….. just a tiny fraction of a list. If, like me, you are not really all that well versed in the culture, history and … [Read more...]
A Cake-Box Sized Record Player, Wild One and the Raspberry-Chocolate Scone
wild ones - 2014 Well, if nothing else, at least there is a nice selection of ideas for scone baking on this blog ……. and a bit of nostalgia and silliness here and there…….. Wild One, by Bobby Rydell was released in 1960. I'll tell you, it scares me to death to think that I was 6 years old in 1960. But, I remember this song, which of course continues to have lasting playing life……… a cake-box sized record player and 45s anyone? Wild … [Read more...]