Welcome to 2010
I’m starting the year with bread.
How about you?
Sauntering Around Ideas
I’m starting the year with bread.
How about you?
Just back from two weeks in Italy with espresso every day in a wide variety of locations: the airport, a hip bar in Fashion Central Milan, busy family run place in Turin (Torino), some touristy places on the Italian Riviera … The coffee was consistantly excellent, even in the train stations.
Today I [...]
Happy Easter! Or Happy Just Another Day if you don’t celebrate Easter. This year for the first time in my life I observed Lent through self-denial. I gave up meat.
For those who wonder why I eat meat in the first place, I’ve considered the question for over 30 years. My food [...]
Kent Peterson has a simple weight control plan “ride 12,000 miles a year and eat whatever you want“. This last weekend he put the plan to work:
My favorite cycling event of the year takes place each August on Bainbridge Island. On Sunday, August 17th, 2008 I joined with a bunch of wise and hungry [...]
The weekend got a mite lazy with a trip to Salem to visit relatives. On the way home we skipped I5 and took Highway 99E all the way. Almost home we were fortuitously distracted by the Milwaukie Farmer’s Market. Encore Brass provided a nostalgic Americana musical [...]
Learn up about a few of the BBQ variations (White BBQ? Yellow? Dry. Mutton.) to be found through out the south. Then visit Rhett and Link to enjoy some more of their road trip videos. They’ve a new one every Monday and Wednesday through the summer.
Thanks to Don Lief for [...]
Num. This morning after the quarterly disaster recovery exercise I returned home and had no trouble convincing Jennifer to have breakfast at our current favorite place Bar Carlo.
Why the current favorite? The food quality is very high with moderate prices, that combination makes for great value.
We both had their Huevos Rancheros. The [...]
With Mom visiting we set out to dinner – she wanted to treat us. We started out for the mysteriously never too busy Bar Carlo (