I was at T&T Supermarket yesterday and, as always, walked past the sushi counter near the entrance. As usual, it was teeming with people, all going through the boxes of sushi-like products, eagerly snapping them up and putting them into their rolling baskets. I saw kids energetically asking their parents if they could choose this [...]
When you read any of the works by Michael Pollan and other contemporary real-food writers, you might get the sense that concern about the nature and quality of our food is a recent phenomenon. It isn’t. I’m reading a book titled Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuji. It was written in 1980, and [...]
Okay, I’ll admit it, even after amassing a sizable collection of cookbooks, I still get suckered in and buy a crap cookbook every now and then. I should know better, I really should, but it still happens – like today, for instance. The thing about cookbooks is that it’s not about the pretty pictures. In [...]
Brands are an important part of the business world, and they’re important to us as consumers. I wouldn’t be so presumptuous to say that brands don’t mean anything to me anymore, or that I am immune to their power and influence. However, I have noticed that they don’t matter to me as much anymore. I [...]
If you have shopping urges – and be honest, you do – mobile internet can save you money. Just this morning, as I wandered aimlessly around Wal-Mart while my car was in the shop to get winter tires put on, my having a Net connection on my phone saved me money. Seriously. And this wasn’t [...]
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