Category: Blog

In my area, the greater San Francisco Bay Area, there are loads of coffee joints. We have the gazillion Starbucks splattered all around, hundreds of Peet’s Coffee, and “only sold… [Continue Reading]

Chinese Oolong tea has a variety of flavors, depending on the plants’ location, climate, and processing decisions a tea master makes; and can range from light to full bodied, vegetal to… [Continue Reading]

Out of the blue, my spouse indicated that more veggies in our meals would be a good thing. I realized my spouse was actually saying “I want some good, home… [Continue Reading]

I try to make this each year for Gayle, in time for her big sister’s annual flight from the Bay Area back to the “home country” of Yonkers, New York…. [Continue Reading]

For this holiday dinner we hosted a young college person who stayed in the dorm over the holidays. She is vegan, and amazingly, making this feast was less wearing on… [Continue Reading]

I have written many posts on tea, but recently saw that over half of the USA consumes coffee on a regular basis. In fact, 63% of the population drinks coffee… [Continue Reading]

With holiday celebrations underway, especially since they coalesce around food, we all could use reminding about what our pets can and cannot eat. This definitely includes me, as I am… [Continue Reading]

In Nov 2023 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and various news organizations brought up the twin issues of blog writers’ truthfulness, and the lack of financial transparency of some health… [Continue Reading]

The Tea Association reported that in 2021 USA consumed almost 85B servings of tea (more than 3.9B gallons). About 84% of all USA consumed tea was black tea, 15% green… [Continue Reading]

Each year I try to make my Thanksgiving post about some aspect of that peculiarly American myth, the Thanksgiving story. Where the European Colonialists are called righteous Pilgrims, and the… [Continue Reading]

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded after WWII on November 1945, to contribute to global peace and security. One goal is global collaboration among nations, through… [Continue Reading]

Here are some of the European and American variations of pasta salad I have made over the years. While relatively easy to make, there are specific ways to make a… [Continue Reading]

The food nutrition label, now on nearly all packaged foods in the USA, is vital to making informed and healthy decisions regarding food. Here is some of what I look… [Continue Reading]