Uneasy Rhetoric

The NY Times has an article on five simple ways to go organic.  Briefly, they are:

Milk
Potatoes
Peanut Butter
Ketchup
Apples

Milk is easy. Just about every supermarket carries at least one organic milk brand.  At Nugget you can get Horizon or Crystal. At Safeway you can get Horizon or their store-brand organic. It is a little more expensive but [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. A time of heat, a time of grilling, a time of emptying your wallet of its contents for just a little taste of the world’s best salmon.  But if you’re trying to eat locally, like, within a hundred miles of Sacramento, don’t bother reading on.
Copper River [...]

Remember back in the day when Japanese restaurants weren’t all about the sushi bar? I remember the old Taki at 20th and J with its cracking vinyl seats and its kitchy Japanese restaurant decor. I don’t even think it had a sushi bar or, if it did, it certainly wasn’t the centerpiece.
The new [...]

Maya tagged me to participate in this meme, so here are my five things regularly stocked in my refridgerator, complete with a picture of the actual contents of my frigo.

1. Beer. Not because I drink it all the time, but because it is always there. I buy several bottles, drink some of them, [...]

Tonight we had another wine tasting. This time, we tried seven chardonnays, six from the bottom shelf at Trader Joes and one ringer. I’ll admit two things: we didn’t chill the wines, and I’m not a big fan of chardonnays to begin with. Still, surprisingly (or not), the 2-buck Chuck chardonnay was [...]