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Nutrition Data

Posted: Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 @ 10:33 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I read labels. My sweet tooth is too voracious not to (as are my fat tooth, savory tooth, and salt tooth). If I didn’t check calorie content now and again, I’d be 685 pounds.
Unfortunately, one sometimes needs a math degree to make the conversions necessary to figure out just how many […]

Of Tumbling Trash and Other Tales

Posted: Thursday, June 26th, 2008 @ 6:55 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So, in case you’ve been wondering why my postings of late have been fewer and farther between, it’s because I’m taking a novel-writing course. Writing a novel takes mucho tiempo. So does writing decent blog posts.
Sigh. Wish I could do it all. Since I can’t, I’m going to try and […]

Miracle Fruit–It’s Not What You Think

Posted: Monday, June 9th, 2008 @ 8:43 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

One day at the end of May I got an email from China and one from right here in town. They were entirely independent of each other (the authors having only the barest knowledge of each other’s existence on the planet), but the subject was the same: have a miracle fruit party. […]

Costly Comestibles: Tips to Trim Your Grocery Bill

Posted: Thursday, May 29th, 2008 @ 5:33 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 […]

Baba Louie’s

Posted: Monday, May 26th, 2008 @ 11:59 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments »

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 […]