A Peculiar Blog

Well, the economic news is continuing to slide and things aren’t looking good. According to the labor department, employers cut another 62,000 jobs in June, bringing the total to around 400,000 or so since January ‘08.
The cause? Well, lets just say that I think it’s reasonable to lay the blame for so many [...]

Many people are familiar with the Shakespeare line from Romeo and Juliet:
What’s in a name? that which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.
Now I don’t know about most people but once in a while I actually think of that line, partly because I like Shakespeare, partly because I’ve seen [...]

Have you heard of Cuppy’s Coffee? I haven’t but then I live in a rural area. Apparently they’re a nationwide chain where it is going to be more convenient to go there because a company called Medina Management Strategies is currently negotiating a deal for several franchises including Cuppy’s, to install flush mounted [...]

Ok, this whole E-Coli thing is getting to the point of being beyond ridiculous. In fact, it’s getting to be every bit as ridiculous as the Chinese made toys with lead contamination that made the news several times this year.
Over roughly the same time there have been several situations where food has had to [...]

Why does it seem like every time you turn around there’s another recall of one kind or another… Very often involving food products of various kinds or Children’s toys? At least this time there isn’t any connection to China… Or so we can believe for now. This recall involves some 500 tons of [...]

One of the things that my new blog ‘TinFoil Chef’ Is going to deal with is the fact that I love checking out new kitchen gadgets and I’ve got a great one now. It’s a microwave bacon cooker unlike anything I’ve ever seen. Over the years there’s been a lot of gadgets developed [...]

This recipe was created when my wife and I started “tweaking” one that we found someplace. The end result is sort of related to what it started out as but a lot better. In our house it’s considered probably about a 9 on a scale of one to ten.
It’s made in a slow [...]

One of the things that I love about fall, aside from the spectacular displays of leaves turning color (which is more impressive that I would have expected in Northeast Arkansas), is the fact that the weather is turning cool enough that baking and breadmaking can be done without turning the house into an oven in [...]

I see that the EU governments are fussing about trying to figure out what they’re going to do about the touchy subject of genetically modified foods.
I would like to suggest that the best answer is to declare that regardless of any so-called tests that “prove” this stuff safe, that it be baanned entirely. This [...]

While I’ve never been a "hopeless kitchen klutz" who couldn’t boil
water, It’s also true that I haven’t done a huge amount of cooking and
most of what I did was of the very basic "open it and heat [...]