It’s been a stressful year. And the last week has been no less stressful. COVID makes going out to eat not a great idea. Like many of you, I have gone all-in on cooking in the last eight months
Even the indestructible can be brought to its knees in this hellyear. Like many people, Purrington believed Twinkies are basically immortal, although the official shelf life is 45 days. He removed a T
This is the grave of C.W. Post. Born in 1854 in Springfield, Illinois, Charles William Post ended up at what became the University of Illinois after he finished high school, but only stayed two years
This is an interesting write up of the pirate William Dampier and his detailed discussions of food across the world. The great age of piracy, if one can call it that, was part and parcel of a wave of
A new war on junk food has been roiling Mexico in the last couple of weeks. As more states propose or approve bans on junk food sales to minors, Mexico is seeing the tide turn against high-calorie sna
I’ve been on my first grave-gathering trip in the COVID era the last couple of days. And let me tell you, it feels good to be away from home. I’ve been in Pennsylvania (is there a law that
Since we are talking a lot about meat right now, Jonathan Safran Foer argues that eating meat is terrible. I don’t really want to reference Foer because I dislike his writing so much. But at the
With the collapse of the entire world economy overnight, exports have plummeted, which means that at least for now, there is lots of meat in the United States. But that is not necessarily stable, espe