If you’re cooking a meal that includes both shrimp and genuinely hot peppers, make it a point to cut/handle the peppers before peeling the shrimp. Peeling a pound and half of shrimp, it seems, leaves microscopic abrasions on your fingers, making them particularly sensitive to the capsaicin in said peppers. Should you clean and cut [...]
My girlfriend recently informed me that my post on malformed tomatoes was part of larger phenomena: the unusually-shaped vegetable (USV). The wikipedia entry contained some links eye-opening links, and after a comprehensive survey of USVs worldwide, I have determined that their most prominent public representative is the cubic watermelon.
These box-shaped melons were first cultivated by [...]
NPR has just informed me that the “megamac” is selectively available at McDonalds in Japan.
Surely the rightful home of this product, which features four (4) all beef patties, is the good ol’ US of A (or at the very least Nauru, the world’s fattest nation).
Update: The actual story behind Nauru certainly calls into question [...]
Au Bon Pain (or “ABP” as we Brown kids call it) now offers a bacon and cheese mini loaf that looks a lot like the southwest cornbread they used to sell. I bought a mini loaf yesterday while hurrying to a class, but about half way through, decided I much prefer my cornbread meat-free. I [...]
By possessing this blog, I’ve been permitted to proclaim a passion for Pinkberry through multiple past postings. Alas, Pinkberry’s presence is limited, and this “Providence” blogger’s propensity for public Pinkberry proclamations is possibly inappropriate. I should probably pay tribute to products purchased in Providence. Perhaps that’s why I promptly produced a providencedailydose post on Juniper, [...]
On Christmas Eve my dad always make’s egg nog. This year, since the Rachlin Family Christmas was deferred, he made it on New Year’s Eve.
I am a HUGE fan of homemade egg nog, but it saddens me that almost no one has tried it. Store bought egg nog is, of course, well sampled by the [...]
For some reason yesterday was my first time dining at Phonatic, a whimsically named Vietnamese restaurant off of Thayer Street. My noodle stir-fry got me thinking, what’s the deal with baby corn and asian food? Corn (i.e. maize) comes from North America, but every time I see baby corn it’s in Asian food. Why are [...]
I didn’t have this blog back in December 2006 when the times ran this story, but lead-ins be damned. Last night my housemate brought up the Wikipedia entry for ambergris. As any perfume connoisseur (or futurama fan) knows, ambergris is a waxy substance secreted by sperm whales then oxidized by years at sea. It’s unique [...]
Here’s a fun fact: I ate pickled lemons twice in the last week, and zero times before that. My first pickled lemon was last Sunday in NYC at the LES Pickle Festival. My second was yesterday in my very own kitchen. Apparently they were purchased at a Lebanese market in Seekonk. I remember liking the [...]