Pandemic Update In the time of a pandemic, canned and boxed foods are often gone from the shelves due to panic buying. But they are not the only food to… [Continue Reading]
Pandemic: Clean + Disinfect
I am focusing this post on how to clean and disinfect your kitchen, and some ideas for unprepared people and what they can do. I will also provide some DIY… [Continue Reading]
Non-Alcoholic Beer
Beer Connoisseurs PBS has a small video series called the Origin of Everything, that does in depth explanations of interesting topics. I ran across this series by accident last week,… [Continue Reading]
Zombie Apocalypse
My Day Job At my University job, one of my tasks is to evaluate risks and plan for events that can shut down our services. The reason why this is… [Continue Reading]
My 2020 Valentine
Taking Turns My spouse and I take turns planning Valentine’s day. The day after I made a little comment about how I planned it last year (hint-hint), I had a… [Continue Reading]
Pasta From Arkansas?
Arkansas’ little Italy I was approached by a company to try a boxed pasta made in Arkansas, and write about it. After reading a review of the companies (the marketer… [Continue Reading]
Gabby’s Mac-n-Cheese
This is a story of how to make the perfect “dump” casserole using just what you have. Of course this dish was made by Chef Gabby of KOF so this… [Continue Reading]
Cruise: The Virgin Islands
Our cruise visited three islands, one owned and operated by Royal Caribbean called CoCoCay, and two others: St Thomas in the US Virgin Islands, and St Martin. Long a cruise… [Continue Reading]
Cruise: The Kitchens
The Video Experience (2019) Netflix has a series called Mega Foods and episode 6 features the “World’s Biggest Cruise Ship” detail on how they manage to serve so many people… [Continue Reading]
Food and Climate
Worldwide Observations Climate We are living during a time of dramatic climate change as observed in our own neighborhoods. Objectively, we can see, and unfortunately many have personally experienced, continuing… [Continue Reading]
Food Insecurity
What is food insecurity? U.S. Department of Agriculture: Food Insecurity is defined as the lack of consistent, dependable access to adequate food for active, healthy living. According to USDA data:… [Continue Reading]
Zero Waste Possible?
Published 15 January 2020, updated 23 August 2020 Zero Waste Goals @ Work The University I work at has a goal of reducing the waste sent to landfills by 90%… [Continue Reading]
Tea Controversies
Controversies exist whenever two people meet and talk, and they can be about anything. So finding tea controversies should not surprise anyone. Published 10 January 2020; revised 28 September 2023… [Continue Reading]
