I know I said I wouldn’t ruminate any more until I got some real baking done, but what can I say: I lied. There’ve been just too many things quietly bugging me about Unhappy Meals the past few days, and I feel an urge to write them down. I could always do that myself in […]
READ ONGood gracious those are a lot of cranky posts all in a row. Ah well, chalk it up to sleep deprivation. You have my word that I’m going to get back to baking soon, which should staunch any urges to pontificate….more than normal anyway. There’s citrus fruit bustin’ out all over after all. I can’t […]
READ ONI want to say this now because it might not be obvious later: I like Michael Pollan. I like his books. I greatly enjoyed and regularly recommend his latest, Omnivore’s Dliemma. Likewise his previous effort, The Botany of Desire. Both are elegantly written collections of essays on his adventures in the world of food. They’re […]
READ ONI barely have two seconds to rub together these days (where did I ever get the idea that bringing a newborn and a recovering mother back into the house would make life less demanding?). But I wanted to muse for a bit on the subject of Buzz Donuts. These caffeine-laced items have been getting a […]
READ ONWell, the bun is out of the oven at long last, after the wife spent five long weeks, a Christmas and a birthday in the hospital. But it was well worth it. Little Joan Pastry came into the world at 4:51 P.M. on Janurary 23rd, a welterweight at 6 pounds, 1 ounce. Both baby and […]
READ ONAside from my move, aside form the immenence of another addition to the Pastry family, I’m told by my hosting company that my server is going to be upgraded some time this month. Exactly when, no one can say, though when it happens the site is going to literally diasappear for two or three days. […]
READ ONSpeaking of fruit soup, do you remember the first time you had it? I do, back in about 1987. It was the closer of a late lunch I was having…outdoors, on the sun deck of a little hippie restaurant on San Juan Island, just a few miles offshore from Seattle. I remember tasting my first […]
READ ONThe National Restaurant Association Published their annual Restaurant Industry Forecast recently, and while I haven’t gotten my hands on a copy yet (like all industry pubs they ain’t cheap, so it’s better to mooch off a friend) I have seen some of the highlights. The most hotly anticipated new trend is bite-sized desserts, which have […]
READ ONI’m very grateful to a recent visitor from Austria who goes by the name of “Cooky”, who was kind enough to convert all the quantities on the “What Things Weigh” page into grams. This is an invaluable service since I am inherently lazy and would never have taken the time to re-measure all those items […]
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