In theory, Yelp is a great thing. People can write reviews, people can read reviews, choose where to go. But like everything, real life is more complicated. The way I figure it, review writers can mostly be reduced to 3 categories: a) people who like...
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A couple of beverage-related stories this morning. 1. If you didn't oppose fracking the Marcellus Shale before, let the Post provide some really strong evidence while you should: there is.
A very nice Washington Post write-up on the great Local Roots, the farmers' co-op in Wooster, Ohio. I taught at the College of Wooster last year and so spent a.
Here's another menu from the New York Public Library historical menu collection. This is from the Third Panel Sheriff's Jury of New York County dinner, February 20, 1900. I don't know which soup to choose, the green turtle or the essence of grouse. The rest...
I love historical menus. The New York Public Library has a fantastic selection up, asking for people to check the transcriptions. This might mean there are some check marks over.
It's typical that The Economist would spend a bunch of space in its story on how Belgium came to dominate the world beer market on the worst beer to come.
Michael Conathan has an interesting albeit somewhat overoptimistic look at the state of fisheries in 2011. Conathan notes a variety of pretty good news ranging from the implementation of catch limits in American fisheries to crackdowns on pirate fishing. Two points I found particularly worth...
This image from Life Magazine disturbs me. I guess because it looks like the shot is set up like giving a dying solider a last drink of water. That it.
What are you doing with all of your leftover turkey? When I was growing up, I knew turkey leftovers well. We'd get a big turkey for Thanksgiving and then eat.
We at LGM's Upstate New York regional offices are very much late to the party in terms of trying Jim Lahey's no-knead bread recipe, which was much discussed several years ago. We can, however, confirm that it works spectacularly well.
Pigs used for the McRib (and at Smithfield Farms more generally) are kept in extra-awful conditions. A 2010 undercover HSUS investigation, however, revealed information altogether to the contrary. HSUS found.
You've heard of racial determinism. But have you ever seen racial determinism combined with pie? I thought not. This 1902 New York Times article about the relationship between pie and.