With food and gas costs rising faster than our income, we’ve been strategizing cost savings at the grocery store. Our shopping tends to be somewhat haphazard and, thus, more expensive than it might be. Here are the top hints I’ve developed so far, though, I confess, we have not consistently implemented all of […]
Two lawyers started a pizza revolution back in the mid-1980s. And thank goodness, because California Pizza Kitchen has inspired others to get more creative with their pizza toppings and now you can find interesting choices in other venues–even in those little mom-and-pop pizza shops that haven’t (yet?) become massive corporate conglomerates (which can really […]
The price of hops is going up. That means your beer will cost more.
As we sat down for beer, our group of three began discussing the world’s current socio-agro-environmental crises and we ended up focusing not on hops, but on corn.
If you’ve been paying attention, you know that corn prices have recently […]
I just realized my favorite dance lends itself extremely well as a name for a micro-brew: Lindy Hops.
Not only does the name reference the great swing dance known as Lindy Hop–with all the style and bold flavor that implies (to the delight, I am sure, of any would-be marketers)–it also plays on […]
Alliteration is fun food for thought. From time to time I look up words in the dictionary, even when I know the definition, just to see them placed in their alphabetical context, surrounded by similar sounds and shapes. Sometimes, doing this results in happy surprises, such as today, when I discovered the […]