I would like to name a beer this: “Ahab’s Whale Tail Pale Ale Tale” as observed by Ishmael, bottled by Fishbits. Please make the back of the bottle note: “Fishbits accidentally bottled a crisp (more…)
Fitness, Nutrition, Health, Weight Loss, Food as Fuel vs. Comfort, Bootcamp, and more…
I immediately realized that, whether I am healthy or fit or not doesn’t matter, because my health was happening without my involvement. Total catharses. Whether I wanted to work out or not, health and nutrition was happening. I always thought of it as “OH great – I got to the gym today. +1 for me!”. But that’s not it…. it’s that being healthy and fit, like we were running around as caveman, means that the baseline is that you are getting fitness constantly every day, and if you don’t, that is a -1, not a +1. Fitness is the baseline. I thought it was a choice.
On Tasting Menus, Chefs & Ego, Fine Dining, and Luxury Goods vs perception.
Thomas Keller things we should redefine “chef” to be “worker” instead of “celebrity”. A friend thought it to be nonsense, because it’s all about ego. I disagree… I think it’s more about neuroses. (more…)
Sugar – the Bitter Truth. The most important 1 1/2 hour lecture your body has ever heard.
Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to (more…)
Organic food has no health benefits, study says, & FREE STICKERS! =)
One of my favorite lines in history was a response to the Economist article in the letters section of the magazine. That organic is ridiculous, and “something as prosaic as buying an apple denotes your social class and education level”. Pro-Organic people were so dogmatic. Oh well… they’ll brush it off and not learn any lessons. That’s what liberals always do.
How do you open your wine? Cork fun, wine solutions, and more
Not sure if you have ever been caught without a corkscrew…. but there are a lot of ways to open a bottle of wine. Personally, I think the idiot’s benchmark is to push the cork in and suffer the splash (more…)