Stuff about books or articles I’ve read, shows or movies I’ve watched – usually food or wine related, but not always.
Ray Kinsella: I think I know what “If you build it, he will come” means. Annie Kinsella: Ooh… why do I not think this is such a good thing? Ray Kinsella: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play… Read More The Ole Switcharoo
“Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein, retired professor For that matter, would any study turn you vegetarian, or change your diet in any particular way? The China Study came to my attention over dinner with one of my students, her husband, and a… Read More Would The China Study Turn You Vegetarian?
I’ve gotten a few requests to post the links for the last radio show for people who missed it. The show, Rise & Shine, hosted by Al Adams, retired U.S. ambassador, is a local Saturday morning talk/interview format, with music, on Urbana FM 89.5. You can always go to their website [not anymore, station out… Read More Radio – On Local Food Trends
Several people asked about where they could hear the first show I did with retired ambassador turned talk show host Alvin Adams on local radio Urbana FM, talking about the local food scene. You can go to their website and download the show to listen to at your leisure here (10.04.2010), or, you can listen… Read More On the Radio Again
Just a quick note that I forgot to post here the other day (how odd, I did post it to Facebook and Twitter and completely neglected my own blog, what is the world coming to?) – a couple of months ago I spent an intensive foodie day with NatGeo Traveler writer and Moon Guide author… Read More Travelin’, Nat Geo Style
“I try to stay true to my heart, true to the produce available in this country … so whatever comes out is modern Chinese, or Chinese-Australian.” – Kylie Kwong, Australian chef It should come as no surprise to anyone that I enjoy watching cooking shows. I always have, since the days when the only ones… Read More China Eggs
“When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.” – Walter Lippmann, Journalist The writing of a cooking book is a… Read More The Golden Rule(s)?
Reporter Anil Mundra features Casa SaltShaker in a video presentation on puertas cerradas in BsAs.