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By Chile Doctor, August 25th, 2010, at 11:51 am
Kids these days. I’ll tell you. They are not only the same picky eaters that your parents accused you of being, they want stuff you never considered. Like spicy food. Thai, Vietnamese, Mexican, all with plenty of zing on the tongue. Even school lunchrooms are paying attention to the trends in spicy and zesty. (Not [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, November 4th, 2009, at 11:30 pm
The Muse bit me hard today. I bit back. While munching on crackers, cheese and dill pickle slices, amongst other tasty and nutritious snacks. (I’d list all the other brain foods I ate, but I’m not going to give you all my secrets without a lot of cash upfront this early.) I found some time [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, February 2nd, 2009, at 6:00 am
Okay, I didn’t get that one right, exactly. Which proves that old saying that predictions are mostly wrong when they’re about the future.
That Superbowl was a good one!Maybe top three all-time. (I can “predict” that with confidence since sports talk radio everywhere says it was the best ever. They’re always wrong.)
We were well-supplied with snacking [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, January 17th, 2009, at 6:00 am
If you like your snacks crunchy, and you want to do something for the environment as well, here’s your chance! Lock your lips around some of these tasty morsels and munch to your heart’s content, knowing full well you’re doing something great for others by taking these little monsters off the farms and streets of [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, October 14th, 2008, at 6:00 am
Finally, Some Really Good Food News!
The New Scotsman reported yesterday on some exciting research into cancer and food. Researchers at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich announced that pectin, an essential ingredient in most jams and jellies, is a powerful cancer fighter.
In particular, it produces fragments that attach to galectin-3, a protein that influences [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, October 7th, 2008, at 4:00 am
A recent post on another Underground (which shall remain nameless) has referred to a bacon-wrapped hotdog (in a maple bar, no less) as Yet Another Sign of the Impending Apocalypse. Which got me to thinking; if this is the end of the world (and who says it isn’t?), then maybe we should celebrate the ever-popular, [...] Read more »
By Chile Doctor, October 1st, 2008, at 4:00 am
On the way to Charminar we passed through some arches, as shown above. These are the same age as the monument itself, and used to denote the beginning of the open space around the memorial. Now that space is filled (and I do mean filled ) with the sights, sounds, aromas and crowds of the [...] Read more »
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