Posted in Beer, Food, Music, Seattle on July 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
A friend asked me for bar recommendations for some out-of-towners.
I have a very particular pub/bar aesthetic. Things I don’t like are corporate outfits or suffocatingly trendy places. I go more for the quirky places with interesting decorations. For instance, some of the places below have elk heads, crew boats, and clowns on the wall. That [...]
Yesterday, I was stuck in the waiting room of a Dr.’s office. So many magazines, so many interesting topics, none of which I can link to because they were in magazines. And there was no internet access in the hospital despite the fact I brought my computer. I truly have become a junkie.
What were some [...]
Posted in Art, Food, Humor, Japan, Photography, Random on July 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’ve known about Suicide Food for some time. Suicide Food shows art of animals that desire to be eaten. This is a photo I took in Japan. Is the pig working out for your tasting pleasure?
Posted in Food, News, Random on July 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I like mayonnaise. My husband absolutely adores it. Apparently if you get food poisoning it’s unlikely mayonnaise is the culprit.
Most commercial brands of mayonnaise contain vinegar and other ingredients that make them acidic — and therefore very likely to protect against spoilage. When problems occur, they usually result from other contaminated or low-acid ingredients (like [...]
Posted in Food, Justice, News, Pop Culture, Random, UK on July 4, 2008 | No Comments »
My husband doesn’t think so, and I’m not sure I do either but I have to admit they are a guilty pleasure.
Meanwhile in the UK:
A Pringle is undoubtedly crisp - but it is not a potato crisp. That was the conclusion reached by a High Court judge today after an exhaustive inquiry [...]
Posted in Food, Humor, Media, News on July 1, 2008 | 4 Comments »
What’s next? Woman needs to water her tomatoes?
Posted in Food, News, Random, Seattle, Transportation, Washington on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Things were so much better in the olden days. I say this having never lived in the olden days, but noticing the folly of planning a time-sensitive harvest festival in advance. Take this strawberry festival in Bellevue:
These are tough times for lovers of local strawberries.
The unseasonably cool temperatures have delayed the annual harvest and is [...]
Posted in Bush, Food, Humor, News, Politics, Random, Republican on June 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Upon meeting me for the first time, it’s fairly regular for a person to tell me how much they like Thai food since I am part Thai. I understand it, after all that may be the only connection a person has to Thailand. Better that then mentioning a sex show you saw in Thailand (sadly [...]
Posted in Advertising, Coffee, Food, Pop Culture, Random, Seattle, Starbucks on May 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It seems that Starbucks in suing the Rat City Roller Girls because their logo looks too much like Starbucks’. Well I love the Rat City Roller Girls’ logo and here are some of my other favorite Seattle logos.
1. Essential Baking Company
2. Pagliacci Pizza
3. The Seattle Storm
4. Caffe Ladro
5. Uptown Espresso
Update:
6. Fuel Coffee
Posted in Food, Football, HowTo, Random, Sports, TV, UK on May 21, 2008 | No Comments »
I wouldn’t call myself an avid sports fan (with the exception of tennis) but I do nonetheless end up watching a lot of sports. More for the symbolic significance of sports than for anything else. For instance, I support Celtic instead of Rangers (I like Catholics), and in the English Premier League I support Tottenham [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Food, Humor, Music, Photography, Pop Culture, Random on May 16, 2008 | No Comments »
Fisherman’s Restaurant famous for its specialty Bjork on a stick.
From The Slog May 2007:
I work in a restaurant here in Seattle called The Fisherman’s. No big deal when Bjork shows up Friday with her cute little mini-Bjork daughter and asked for “pork on a stick.” I could dig that, like a corndog with no corn [...]
Posted in Animals, Food, Humor, News, Random on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
In 2006, the Chicago City Council banned foie gras from the menu of Chicago restaurants because of the perceived cruelty involved in making it. The process involves force feeding geese or ducks until their livers bloat. Enforcing the law was difficult as you can imagine. Given more urgent duties, Chicago police were reluctant to spend [...]
Posted in Art, Coffee, Food, Random on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Posted in Food, Humor, Justice, News, Pop Culture, Random on May 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And apparently punishable by nine months in prison.
MCARTHUR, Ohio — A judge in southern Ohio must decide whether to send a man to prison for sharing a Little Debbie snack cake. The case involves 21-year-old Timothy Caudill, who last year was held in a residential community corrections program in Nelsonville for breaking into a bar.
While [...]
Posted in Coffee, Environment, Food, Humor, Seattle, Technology, Washington on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is why I have a coffee category.
If you prefer your coffee fresh-brewed when hiking, Spokane-based GSI offers a number of coffee solutions. If you want a steaming mug of Starbucks Yukon blend during your hike, toss your favorite lightweight stove into your pack, then add a GSI Lexan Javapress — a French-press style coffee [...]
Posted in Bush, Business, Economy, Food, Lies, News, Politics on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Ah, the good old U.S. of A. where you can buy 5 gallon containers of mayonnaise but you can’t buy more than 20 pounds of rice. For the less than 20 some odd percent of Americans out there that still think George Bush is doing a good job, what do you think of this:
The two [...]
Posted in 70's, Food, Humor, Random on April 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An oldie but goody. You’ll especially like the commentary for each recipe card.
Weight Watchers Recipe cards from 1974. These cards mystify me. None of them have calorie or nutrition information of any kind, and in some instances it’s hard to tell what’s dietetic about the recipes at all, except that they’re unspeakably grim. And yet [...]
Posted in 80's, Advertising, America, Barack Obama, Business, Decision 2008, Entertainment, Food, Mexico, Money, News, Politics, Pop Culture on April 11, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Forgive me if I’m late to the party on this one, but I just read that Barack Obama is looking to get Teamster support in Pennsylvania when I saw this:
On Wednesday, the Teamsters convoy made its way to Reading, Pennsylvania, where the York Peppermint Patty factory is shutting down, moving more than 250 jobs to [...]
Posted in Decision 2008, Entertainment, Food, Humor, News, Politics, Republican on April 10, 2008 | No Comments »
Bar and restaurant hours during the Republican National Convention might be able to stretch into the wee hours of the morning after all, with new legislation that some prior naysayers are tentatively embracing.
A proposal for allowing bars to remain open until 4 a.m. around the time of the convention passed unanimously Tuesday through the House [...]
Posted in 80's, Food, Humor, Pop Culture, Video Games on April 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
So I was over at some friends’ house the other day when someone brought up BurgerTime, one of the original video games from the 1980’s. When my friends started describing the game I couldn’t stop laughing. You can’t make this stuff up. Or if you can you’re a very twisted genius. Here are some [...]
Posted in America, Food, Irony, Mexico, News on March 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Looks like the Unites States faces a new challenge in an area where it had long been considered dominant. Mexico may soon be fatter than the US.
I hope our leaders will take steps to counter this threat to Americas pride and dignity. One particular quote in the story struck me:
“People don’t eat right anymore,” [...]
Posted in Cartoons, Food, Japan, Travel on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s been a great two weeks. I have only been to Asia once before in 2001 when I went to Thailand. Now that I have been back, I’m mad at myself that I haven’t come to this beautiful continent more often. The history here is incredible and rivals anything around the world. I know [...]
Posted in Food, Japan, Photography, Travel on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
We’re enjoying these wonderful yeasty morning baked goods. Not flaky like French pastries, but wonderful and buttery, soft and good. Very creative fillings as well. This picture is from a bakery in Tokyo.
Posted in Food, Japan, Photography, Travel on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I find it ironic that when on vacation I go to a fish market since my home, Seattle, is famous for the Pike Place Fish Market. Well, we’ve got nothing on Tsukiji.
Tsukiji is a working wholesale fish market that happens to be a tourist attraction — not the other way around. In other [...]
Posted in Food, Humor, Japan, Travel on March 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When in a pub, do not order the fried cheese.
In my defense, I would like to say that I never ordered the fried cheese. I ordered what was loosely translated as “various skewers.” The various skewers were actually deep fried items in breadcrumbs much to my surprise. There was a square boxish one that I [...]
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