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Good cob, bad cob: “King Corn” isn’t against the grain

by Bonnie P. @ Wednesday, October 10th, 2007.

Never fear, I have plenty of corn puns left.

Digest - Blogs: “King Corn” dispatches, Bruce helps out People’s Grocery, estate tax loopholing

by Ethicurean @ Wednesday, October 10th, 2007.

Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.

Catching up: Washington State locavoreanism

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, August 21st, 2007.

The Butter Bitch and I have been on hiatus for the past few months, due to our day jobs and ongoing projects. The Seattle Times’ Pacific Northwest Sunday Magazine devotes most of this week’s issue to an overview of Washington’s locavorean movement and the promotion of sustainability in the wine.
The Bounty Around Us looks at […]

Postcard from Tunisia: Heaven — I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so…

by Bonnie P. @ Saturday, July 21st, 2007.

I’m in Tunis, and I’ve finally yanked out the DSL plug fused directly into my brain, in order to enjoy the last few days of serious R&R while Marc so ably keeps the Ethicurean home fires burning. (Pelosi, how could you?)

Digest: Dairy ads restricted, worrisome hormones in all milk, the Bay Area oyster wars

by Ethicurean @ Saturday, May 12th, 2007.

Digest: Milk ads restricted, worrisome hormones in all milk, the oyster wars

Actor/activist Ed Begley gets no respect in “Living with Ed”

by Bonnie P. @ Monday, January 29th, 2007.

My husband watches Home and Garden Television every minute that he’s not actually soldering copper or sawing wood. (The Potato Non Grata does occasionally break to do a photo shoot or to watch “Law and Order,” the latter over my heavy sighs.) So there was no way I could have missed the promos for “Living […]

Eclectic Oregon pinot noir: Medici

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Friday, January 19th, 2007.

Over the past two Thanksgiving holidays, the Butter Bitch and I have found ourselves in the Oregon wine country, sampling a number of excellent wines and enjoying the scenery.
Our tour of wineries has exposed us to a number of top-flight wines and a few clunkers, reinforced our opinions of much-loved favorites, and occasionally surprised us.
Oregon’s […]

Wine Blogging Wednesday #29: Biodynamic wines

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Wednesday, January 17th, 2007.

The fine folks at Fork & Bottle are hosting this months’ Wine Blogging Wednesday, in which people drink wine and blog about it. We can get behind that.
This month’s focus is on biodynamic wines. I’m still uncertain what to think about biodynamics, even after the Butter Bitch read and wrote about biodynamics. […]

Vodka taste-off: Square One Organic Vodka vs. Russian Standard Imperia

by Bonnie P. @ Monday, January 8th, 2007.

I like vodka. I like vodka gimlets (fresh lime juice plus a splash of Rose’s, up), vodka tonics, Cosmopolitans, Bloody Marys…
To vodka aficionados, therefore, I am a nitwit. Vodka nerds do not dilute their precious spirit with any other tastes, any more than oenophiles drink wine coolers. Remember those from high school? Ick.
So when the […]

Grass-FedEx: U.S. Wellness Meats beef, pork, and chicken

by Bonnie P. @ Sunday, January 7th, 2007.

Before going to Pensacola this Christmas, I wanted to avoid some of the stress of previous visits having to do with meat. It was easier when I was a vegetarian, and my family eventually got used to thinking about swapping chicken stock for vegetable and so forth. But my “ethical carnivorism” of the past few […]

Best things in Austin I have eaten so far

by Erika aka Omniwhore @ Monday, January 1st, 2007.

Not only had I not eaten these things before 2006, I didn’t know what in the hell some of them were. I still don’t really know how to pronounce chevre — I usually tag on a vague “ruh” sound at the end. And tomatillos? I thought those were decorative. But I […]

Worth the hassle: Pizzeria Bianco in Phoenix

by Bonnie P. @ Tuesday, December 5th, 2006.

See those people in the picture above? No, they’re not waiting for PlayStations or concert tickets. They are anxiously, competitively queuing for pizza. Not just any pizza, mind you — the “Best Pizza in America,” according to Ed Levine, the author of 2005’s “Pizza: A Slice of Heaven,” who ate a thousand contenders before […]

A time to give thanks: Thanksgiving weekend at Sineann

by Butter Bitch @ Monday, December 4th, 2006.

Several years ago, I worked for a local natural food chain store in Portland, Oregon as a wine, beer, and cheese monger. One of my regular customers at the time was a man named Peter. Peter came in on a regular basis, bringing his absolutely adorable daughter with him. We would talk […]

Brews blues in the Emerald City

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Thursday, November 30th, 2006.

Visitors to the Emerald City who read the Seattle P-I’s Getaways section must think that Seattle hates itself more than an angst-ridden teenager. Once or twice a month, the section reminds Seattle residents that everything is better in Portland. The Rose City does feature a superior brewpub scene, a thriving coffee culture, and […]

A tale of two chars

by JC Costello aka Man of La Muncha @ Tuesday, November 28th, 2006.

I planned to name this post “Char Times,” but I realized that attentive readers might think that I’d recycled an old post about chard and introduced a typo. A new title was needed, and I returned for inspiration to my friend Charles to provide me with a title about char.
I’ll stop punning now.
For […]

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