by David | Apr 6, 2012 | culture, eating
You know how every office has somebody that loves to tell stories, often the same ones again and agin? I’m not gonna lie, it can be annoying, except when you get a really good story out of it. This is one such story: The Legend of the Passover Hamster. It...
by David | Oct 24, 2010 | culture, eating
Last week I attended a discussion and book signing for Defiance of the Patriots: The Boston Tea Party & the Making of America by historian Benjamin Carp. History might not run as deep here in Massachusetts as it does in Sicily, but it’s pretty thick in...
by David | Jun 12, 2010 | eating
I’ve been informed that today, June 12, is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. What better day to test my crackpot theory that you can improve things by adding peanut butter. For example, here is Quaker Oats’ “Vanishing Oatmeal Raisin Cookie”...
by David | Dec 6, 2009 | eating, urbanism
When you live outside the tropics, it’s sort of hard to buy “local chocolate.” You can buy from a local chocolatier, which is somebody who buys chocolate from someplace else and melts, molds, rolls, carves and otherwise remakes it into delicious...
by David | Aug 29, 2008 | eating
Earlier this week I was in Santa Monica engaging in the dark art of qualitative marketing research. (For more insight into marketing research, try Lynne’s shiny new blog, Marketing Analytics) While dining with my colleagues, I discovered that they had been...
