Miscellaneous, etc.

In celebration of American Thanksgiving (which I am required, by Canadian legislation, to call that holiday), I thought it would be useful to share yesterday morning’s article on turkey carving, by Julia Moskin. “A radically untraditional step makes carving a turkey easier,” she tells us, “if less spectacular.”
I started carving the white meat of […]

Valentine’s day was last week. Did you hear?
Yeah, yeah. There’s all kinds of debate about whether it’s a worthy holiday or not. I know for a lot of people it’s lame to make a fuss, but for me Valentine’s Day has been a perpetual excuse for making a big hoopla. I’m […]

Let’s really think about something.
I’d like you to go back in time, and I’d like you to remember the last pack of gum that you started, worked your way through, and finished entirely on your own. Try to narrow it down to the day, the second, that you popped out that last piece of […]

The reason you never see Tim Horton’s employees drinking their iced cappucino drinks is because they see how it is made.

My continuing obsession with both baking and baking difficult things from my childhood carried forward this week, with two key items.
First off were date squares, whose actual recipe isn’t that hard, but whose preparation is a bit of a pain in the ass. Dates themselves, for those of you who haven’t had the […]