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]
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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]
You Must Wear Your Cook’s Uniform to be Safe
In 2021, the USA employed ~2.6M cooks. A year earlier, the Census calculated there were ~124M households in the USA, and we can safely assume each household had someone who… [Continue Reading]
The Real Complexity of Fantastic Iced Teas
There are interesting things about iced tea that I did not know until an article about Southern Sweet Tea caught my eye. I decided to share what I knew about… [Continue Reading]
Hot Sauce for the Sensitive Among Us
I like hot sauce, but not Southeast Asian hot. I like heat that makes my mouth slightly burn, where my eyes slightly water and my nose runs; but not the… [Continue Reading]
Control the Spice, Divert the Global Wealth
Spices have been a globally traded luxury product for thousands of years, grown by mainly poor people who rarely make livable wages. They are also hard to trace, which means… [Continue Reading]