Midway in our Southern Greece trip, in the spring of 2024, we traveled 145 miles from Athens to Santorini via plane. Athens, the capital of Greece, is a cosmopolitan city,… [Continue Reading]
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Athens is History, People, and Great Food
We travelled to Athens, Greece in the Spring of 2024, and found a wealth of history, great people, and food traditions beyond our expectations. While I have been to Greece… [Continue Reading]
Why do you Love Cooking?
This was the question my spouse came up with when I asked, “do you have any burning question, about food, that I can address in my blog?” What made this… [Continue Reading]
Pandemic + Comfort Food
We are entering Spring, having just shared the top ”comfort food” holidays. It brought to my mind what “comfort food” really means to me, and then I had a question…. [Continue Reading]
The Stinking Rose (Garlic) is a Poverty Flavor
People either appreciate the garlic flavor or not, believe it makes a dish perfect while others find it too overwhelming; in truth, love it or hate it, garlic has been… [Continue Reading]
What Do You Know About Drinking Water
I had a day that turned out to be all about water. My newsfeed was pushing articles about limited water resources in other countries, and while I was sitting at… [Continue Reading]
Phosphorus is a Lynchpin to Life
Phosphorus is a lynchpin of our food system states ScienMag, the reason why is that plants cannot grow without it and [it] has no substitute. Phosphorus is also a component… [Continue Reading]
Make Your Own Spice + Herb Blends
This is a follow up to my spice post, where I provide directions on making your own spice blends from the spices you already have in your home, plus some…. [Continue Reading]
Our Horrendous Wobbly Global Food Supply
This is a post to update the state of our global supply food chain, because the recent Baltimore bridge disaster might disrupt USA’s soybean and tofu supply. Last year, Canada… [Continue Reading]
Make Savory Pancakes Now + Thank Me Later
As you know, being German, I already have a fondness for potato pancakes (kartoffelpuffer) but it is usually served with applesauce, and German crepes (pfannenkuchen) is served with a cinnamon… [Continue Reading]
Refrigeration is Great, but Heats Our Planet
I started this post thinking about Refrigerators and wanted to review them the way I did Dishwashers. So I started by looking into our attempts at food preservation, from cellars… [Continue Reading]
An Important Annual Rainy Day Kitchen Revival
As I write this post, it is very rainy and cold outside, perfect timing for me to do a once-a-year kitchen revival. Although I do have to admit sometimes I… [Continue Reading]
How Pepper Changed the World
I started to read an article titled: Pepper changed the world – but how many people know that? by Dr. Anna Sulan Masing. Basically she tells the story that colonialism… [Continue Reading]
