Food writer Michael Ruhlman has a post on his blog challenging his readers to create a BLT from scratch, photograph it and submit it. Creating a BLT from scratch in his mind means curing the pancetta, baking the bread, growing the lettuce and tomatoes and making the mayo from scratch. Despite the fact that I [...]
Posted in Books, Cooking |
By Kit | October 28, 2008
I find the changes taking place in the agriculture business to be really promising. I, too, am a vegetarian and couldn’t fathom eating goat, but I think diversification of the American pallet and a focus on producing really high quality small scale products is a good thing.
By Kit | September 15, 2008
Further to my post on a posited Amazon Kindle foray into text books, the New York Times has an article on electronic versions of text books and some of the dilemmas that current models present. I mentioned in my post that the individual consumer doesn’t get to select which book is used. The Times [...]
By Kit | September 8, 2008
Merlin Mann weblebrity of a variety of sorts, has outright stated something on his Tumblelog Kung Fu Grippe that it seems he has been bumping up against for some time and captures a feeling that I have had for a while now as well.
With this diet metaphor in mind, I want to, if you like, [...]
Something strange happened today, and it seemed noteworthy so I relate it here. I have begun bringing my lunch to work (save money, eat better, blah bitty blah blah) and my vessel of choice is Mr. Bento.
Mr. Bento is a tremendous modern (and Japanese!) replacement for the lunchbox: a bullet shaped container with four sub-containers [...]
Posted in Gadgets, The Web |
For some reason, I have noticed the term “reverse osmosis” or the even worse “reverse osmosis filter” being thrown about quite a bit lately. This bothers me immensely. Osmosis is the movement of a liquid across a membrane from an area of low concentration to high contration. Effectively, you are diluting the concentration of a [...]
Apple’s new MobileMe service has come under a lot of fire since it’s launch and has encountered a number of severe difficulties involving uptime, faux push functionality, and lost customer emails. The whole thing has seemed quite un-apple like. I by no means have the intention of piling on, but I am going to [...]
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Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. [...]
The culinary industry seems to have been slow to embrace the web. While there are a number of notable food bloggers and loads of great recipe sites (a handful of great technique driven sites have been cropping of late as well thanks to the proliferation of video tools), the retail side of things seems to [...]
The folks at 37Signals look at things differently. Most of the time it works, too. Their products approach activities like project management from a totally different angle. They favor fewer features and super-simple usability over appeasing the slack-jawed masses. Their book Getting Real, has become the user manual for a new way of [...]
