I was talking to someone about Post It Notes this morning. As you may know, they are one of the world’s great accidental inventions. A chemist was trying to develop a super-strong glue and got something super weak instead. A bit later another scientist thought to use that failed glue to hold markers in his hymnal at church. Boom – Post It Notes! Continue reading
Category Archives: food
Held Up Without A Gun
I’ve been holding this post until today since it’s food related and we try to do food on Fridays. The Springsteen-based title is in honor of taking the family to see him tomorrow night but it’s applicable to the subject at hand. My friend Mongrel is of Italian descent and revels in what he calls the “underlying criminal mindset” of the entire country. I think he’s typically hyperbolic about that but a couple of food incidents sort of have me believing it. Continue reading
Filed under food, Helpful Hints, Huh?, Reality checks
True, true
Fridays are for food in this space and I’ve just come back from what I consider the greatest food country on the planet, Italy. I’m not going to dwell on my usual themes of great ingredients simply prepared although we were lucky enough to have many meals done exactly that way. Rather, what struck me on this trip was how true the entire culinary culture of the nation has remained to itself. Continue reading
Filed under food, Thinking Aloud
Consult Keith 