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Archive for November, 2007

Flay on Ray

Posted: Monday, November 12th, 2007 @ 8:55 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So, I was flipping channels this a.m. and stumbled across Rachel Ray’s show (she’s come so far from when I used to watch her gourmet-on-$40-a-day show on the Food Network).
She has an on-going “So You Think You Can Cook” competition and has invited celebrity chefs to join in the judging.  Apparently, celebrity chefs like […]

Honey, Honey

Posted: Thursday, November 8th, 2007 @ 9:55 pm in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

For some reason, in my decades upon this earth, I never learned until last week that honey is magical.
It never spoils.
I happened to be flipping channels and stumbled upon a show on colony collapse disorder.  Aside from flinging me into another panic over impending world doom (by noting the […]

Joe Jackson Says “Everything Gives You Cancer”

Posted: Monday, November 5th, 2007 @ 9:36 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So, I went to CNN’s web site with the idea of typing in the word “food” to see what came up.   Before I even got that far, however, I noted they had a food-related news item on their front page, the link to which was entitled, unceremoniously, “Booze, Cancer Link.”
Turns out wine, which, […]

Hell-o-Ween

Posted: Thursday, November 1st, 2007 @ 8:58 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Let me take a moment to lament the fact that Halloween just ain’t what it used to be.
I remember hordes of children trolling the streets of my childhood for sweets.   It seems like there are fewer children ringing the bell every year.
Maybe it’s the lack of sidewalks.  I’ve […]