Tag: food for thought
member name: Richard Frisbie
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February 09, 2007 04:26 PM EST --
Ethanol is our government’s solution of choice to our reliance on foreign oil. Because of that, US ethanol production is increasing 15 percent or more annually, and is expected . . .
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April 05, 2008 05:39 PM EDT --
So many of you liked the photo and story of my feral cat rescue that I thought I'd finish the tale. The last installment ended with both kittens in the Animal Hospital being neutered, and the . . .
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March 19, 2008 02:06 PM EDT --
Are we in a recession?
I heard on NPR last week that for the first time 70% of economists now agree we are in a recession. The "common" definition of 2 negative quarters has also been . . .
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July 05, 2007 12:26 PM EDT --
What is a prawn, you ask . . .
If you suffer some confusion about exactly what a prawn is, relax, you are in good company. While there are definite physical distinctions, once . . .
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November 09, 2007 02:14 PM EST --
Viva List Latin America
333 Places and Experiences That People Love
Edited by Paula Newton, Michelle Hopey and Crit Minster PhD.
This is not your usual guidebook. In fact, it isn't . . .
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April 29, 2008 11:25 PM EDT --
I know, I know -- After two weeks in France I should be home spending time with my gather friends. So Sorry. Long before the 2 week press French thing happened I was assigned a press trip to Clearwater . . .
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November 06, 2007 03:44 PM EST --
or - Ground Lamb SURPRISE!
Twice while touring Southern France last Spring a ground lamb dish was served that was delicious in its simplicity. Moorish in origins, the ingredients . . .
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December 03, 2007 11:56 AM EST --
Book Review by Richard Frisbie
The author is a recalcitrant and fiercely independent product of the sixties who thanks Mr. Brokaw for the wake-up call.
To give you an idea . . .
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May 13, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
My trip to the Zaragoza Expo 2008 was in November. Most of the buildings you see under construction here are now completed.
Zaragoza . . .
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August 20, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
I know I’ve written about farmers markets and R estaurant S upported A griculture before, and I know they are hot topics now, so I want to share with you the synergy of the two I experienced . . .
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March 01, 2007 02:40 PM EST --
Greetings fellow gatherites. Today I’m asking your advice AND giving you a heads-up about some of my future articles. I just accepted an invitation to travel to Macau (China) on a culinary tour . . .
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October 05, 2007 05:45 PM EDT --
OR - “What is Gather.com?”
I accepted an invitation to lunch at the 21 Club in Manhattan last Monday. The occasion could have been to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of . . .
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April 25, 2008 03:02 PM EDT --
Trees talk to us. They tell us where they hurt, when they are too wet or dry, and when they are dying. We don't usually hear them, but insects can. Weaker trees are more likely . . .
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July 28, 2008 11:53 AM EDT --
Have you checked out CUIL yet?
As soon as I heard there was a new search engine that announced it was taking on google I jumped at the chance to test drive it.
CUIL (pronounced "cool") . . .
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November 20, 2007 03:52 PM EST --
OR - Thanksgiving Fusion Pie: Sweet Potato Coconut
There is a large poster-sized picture of Martin Luther King hanging in my bookshop. It is very lifelike, . . .
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February 07, 2008 03:19 PM EST --
Last Fall I attended the Hudson Valley Wine and Food Fest in the oldest wine making region of the country - New York's Hudson Valley. The festival, now in it's sixth . . .
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March 16, 2008 02:36 PM EDT --
I rarely eat beef, but once a year I make a Jewish recipe in celebration of an Irish holiday. That's right, I make corned beef and cabbage for St Patrick's Day. But first . . .
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March 21, 2008 04:12 PM EDT --
My life is so strange. When I'm not presiding over my bookshop I'm usually traveling. I'm a food and travel freelance writer, and I'm on enough travel lists to burst my mailbox. Everyday . . .
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May 20, 2008 06:13 PM EDT --
Clearwater Florida is a narrow barrier island similar in size and composition to Miami, but on the west coast of Florida. It is a natural paradise offshore the sprawling urbanity . . .
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July 29, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
During a recent visit to France, which was planned more for viticulture than history, it became impossible to ignore all the military monuments and cemeteries set in the green fields and vineyards . . .
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