The Not Entirely Arbitrary Review of Food
You know non-alcoholic beers have hit the minivan mainstream when even the local Costco warehouse carries multiple varieties at once. This week, one of the available brands was a non-alcoholic version of Blue Moon, a Belgian-inspired megabrew from Molson Coors […]
Who doesn’t love a warm cookie, freshly plucked from the oven? Terrorists, probably. But other than that, nobody. For all of our political divisions, a warm cookie fresh from the oven is a pure delight, no matter your views on […]
The last time I took my espresso machine to the shop to get it cleaned and serviced, the shop’s owner gave me an important lesson in espresso. You shouldn’t use such dark, oily beans, he said. See here? All the […]
Quantity changes everything. With five dollars in your pocket, every expense is carefully considered; with a couple hundred readily available, a $2 item is an easy impulse buy. Abundance and scarcity both change your perspective on the world, and things […]
Unless you have a reasonably tuned palate, a very large number of Starbucks coffees taste pretty much the same. It’s not the fault of the beans, no sir. It’s all about the Starbucks roasting process, which, in the traditional Starbucks […]
