by David | Jan 9, 2015 | eating, science!
I’m told that there are treatments available for those of us who are compelled like to count and sort our candy by color before eating it. I can stop any time I want, of course, but today’s fun-sized pack of M&Ms gave me pause. No yellow. There’s...
by David | Nov 7, 2013 | design, eating
It’s the week after Halloween, and that means tons of leftover candy. Especially since it’s the stuff you couldn’t palm off on the young extortionists in costume, I usually don’t pay much attention. But this week, somebody left a bunch of Kit...
by David | Oct 15, 2013 | photo, reading & writing
Horizontal sun Greets the morning commuter Change is in the air
by David | Jun 4, 2013 | culture, eating, urbanism
I’ve called out food trucks before for obfuscating the name and content of common dishes, but when Mei Mei Street Kitchen put Sanguinaccio Dolce on the board, they helpfully, if bluntly, glossed it with “Taza chocolate, John Crow farm pigs blood.”...
by David | May 7, 2013 | design, eating
While snagging a fresh Mozart Kugel from the snack table at the office I noticed this informative diagram inside the box. Behold the majesty of two different kinds of marzipan on one chocolate ball. What really drove the Salieri Kugel to madness was how easy the...