The Skim Milk Scam
They may say that skim milk is better for you, but it tastes like…nothing.
The Food Safety Net
The E. coli outbreak linked to tainted spinach has focused attention on government regulation of food safety.
Run for Your Food
An article in the current issue of the New Scientist suggests that humans may have evolved the body shape we did to become good runners. And why would we need to be good runners? So we could eat. Our ancestors could get to animal carcasses first to scavenge and later, when they became hunters, they …
The Vanilla Legacy
Many people leave their kids money and property. While I plan to leave both of those things to my children in the hopefully far-distant future when I depart this earth, one of the legacies I hope my daughter will treasure most is the bottle of Endless Vanilla. Nearly 20 years ago, my husband was trying …
Julia Child and the Love of Cooking
I recently read the late Julia Child’s memoir, My Life in France, which was published earlier this year. It’s a quirky book, a series of often disconnected vignettes, but it is an entertaining read, opinionated and charming and endowed with a sense of humor, like Julia herself. You can hear her relating the anecdotes in …