Category: Food
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Live from the Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference
I’m at the Beer Bloggers & Writers Conference this weekend, and one of the fun times of the weekend is a live beerblogging session. Various breweries bring their wares, tell us about them, and we blog about them. Each beer has about five minutes, so it is a fast-paced fun event. Joining me in the…
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The Path of Invention
What I knew was that if you brewed your coffee at lower than boiling temperature it tasted sweeter. I had learned that from a little slip of paper that was packed in a Chemex coffee maker that we bought twenty years earlier. Source: First Alan Adler Invented the Aerobie. Now He’s Created the Perfect Cup…
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This is what happens to your brain when you stop eating sugar
I have a huge sweet tooth. I always have. My friend and fellow graduate student Andrew is equally afflicted, and living in Hershey, Penn., “Chocolate Capital of the World,” doesn’t help either of us. But Andrew is braver than I am. Last year, he gave up sweets for Lent. I can’t say that I’m following……
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Secret Barista Man
At a Starbucks deep inside the CIA’s Langley, Va., compound, even the baristas are covert. The Washington Post is killing it on pieces that suck me in. A fun write-up about the Starbucks inside the CIA Headquarters and the extra security considerations involved (no Starbucks card accepted here). Source: At CIA Starbucks, even the baristas…
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Tech Companies Need Cheese!
Of all of the questioning, misidentification from being @kraft and generally with having the last night, this is the most amusing. Probably not the best use of resources to junk mail thing with Kraft in the title…
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Breakfast Beer