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A Moment of Silence…
Link to the full story here. Okay, you’re laughing at the idea of seeing the spectacle of a massive road-closing Brunost goat cheese fire. It’s okay, I laughed too. But when I was done laughing, I...
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Culinary Adventure: Chocolate Rosemary Bread Pudding
From time to time… okay, often… I decide to embark on a culinary adventure. Sometimes it’s as simple as buying a new spice and trying it out on everything that I cook for a week or two. Usually it’s...
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Where’s the Good Corn?
Corn is starting to show up in the grocery stores in my urban habitat. What I am used to this meaning: figuring out which store has the yellow corn this year, not the white corn that is most...
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Dear Fruit Growers : Wrong Way
I’m eating apricots and I think: these are basically tiny peaches. But they have smoother flesh, they’re sweeter, they’re more flavorful than their larger cousins. Same with cherries. Tiny plums, just...
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Toddler Logic
Let me take a moment to tell you what this innocent-looking little child just did. To set the stage: we’ve got 3 kids, my wife and I. A teen, an infant, and the 2-year-and-2-month-old pictured above,...
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Today’s Random: Flowers In The Espresso Maker
I had a thought: if my cheap second-hand espresso maker can extract flavor from coffee, I bet it can do the same with other things. Above is the second infusion from a batch of dried hibiscus flower,...
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What’s With the Pretzel Buns?
Pretzel buns seem to be the new fast-food and not-so-fast food fad. You want a bun that tastes vaguely like the cousin of a soft pretzel? Okay, fine. Whatever. The pretzel-bunned burgers billed as...
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What Do You Do? Nor’easter Edition
What do you do when a nor’easter storm threatens? Even better, threatens with snow, which here in coastal Virginia pretty much shuts the place down. If you’re me, you settle in for some writing time....
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Rice Cooker Cake Update
Cooking a cake in a rice cooker works just fine. Doing a double batch will take frickin’ forever. Next time I do this, I’m using a single box of mix (or a recipe for one layer, 8″ round (or is it 9″?...
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Off-topic and Defying Conventional Wisdom: I Feel Like Blogging About My...
Because it was delicious, and I feel like writing something right now. So: the family-sized breakfast sandwich I made, from bottom to top: –1 loaf of Italian bread, split lengthwise, liberally smeared...
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Food Interlude: Delicious Fruit
Pictured above, a Russian (and nearby regions) fruit drink called kompot I’ve taken a liking to and make on occasion. It’s easy to make and it’s more delicious than anything I can get from the store...
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A Baconless Dystopia –OR– I Find Your Lack of Bacon Disturbing
Looking back on my decades of science fiction reading, I realized a terrible thing: there’s not very much bacon in the future we, as science fiction writers, collectively imagine. A few authors have...
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When I Think “Faster Food,” I Think Robot Cooks, Not SHRIMP DUMPLING CANNON
Yes, this is an advertisement. Usually, I’m no fan of advertisements. However, this one is hilarious and creative… and it made me laugh. Laughter is precious.
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EAT SCIENCE FICTION
Could the future be so cruel? I love food, and it shows in my fiction. There aren’t many stories I write that go by without the characters having a meal. I’m working on a story now, and my...
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Eat MORE Science Fiction — Any Fiction At All, Really
In my last post, EAT SCIENCE FICTION (link opens in new tab), I discussed the role of food in fiction, especially science fiction. I focused on the social element of eating meals and the way food...
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Lab-Grown Meat: The Next Great Culinary Playground
Oh, look. A tray of raw beef garnished with… a sprig of juniper for some reason? Who eats raw beef with juniper? What the hell is going on here? Less than two years ago, laboratory-grown beef made a...
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SciFi News Network (Commercial Break): BARELY LEGAL BURGERS
Barely Legal Burgers™ by Bro Chow International Bro Chow knows what bros want in a burger. You want something different, something that walks the edge. Bro, you want a BARELY LEGAL BURGER —...
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Work In Progress, Served In Six (I Think) Courses
(This post first appeared on my Patreon page on the 10th of this month — that’s right, they get to see posts THREE DAYS EARLY. When I publish an ebook, they get a FREE copy THIRTY DAYS BEFORE...
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SciFi News Network 2092: Advertisement: Ask Your Doctor If NeroScarfin Is...
OBESITY WILL KILL YOU! With population levels stabilizing around the world and continued advances in technology that make producing, preserving, transporting, and eating food easier every year, the...
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Got Chai?
If you don’t “got chai”, I have been playing with recipes and variations for a few months and have settled on a recipe that I really enjoy. Maybe you’ll enjoy it too — you might want to start with...
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