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In re: Airline baggage tags: their brilliant design

Posted on October 06, 2012
Airline baggage tags: How their brilliant design gets bags from Point A to Point B. – Slate Magazine. Just been flying a bunch this week and saw this really good article on all the design aspects that go into the modern luggage tag, kinda amazing how much we take it for granted (of course I [...

In re: Backyard figs

Posted on August 27, 2012
Early last summer while walking into a Lowe’s hardware store we saw fig trees for sale. Not being an expert on figs I assumed that being native to the Middle East they weren’t something for Ohio’s climate but upon further reading of their detailed tag that indeed the variety of Chicago Hardy was listed as [...

In re: homemade ginger ale

Posted on May 26, 2012
A few months ago I saw an episode of Good Eats that on Ginger. (For years I was a religious Good Eats viewer but I somehow stopped watching as often and eventually not at all, but have intermittently seen a few episodes over the last few months. The gags are a bit more annoying then [...

In re: Picnic in the commons

Posted on May 25, 2012
Yesterday was the ‘official’ grand opening of the new stage at Columbus Commons, the park in Columbus on the former site of City Center Mall.  The park is an amazing addition to downtown and the new stage makes it just that much better.  To open up the new venue a free concert of the Columbus [...

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In re: How the Sling was Slung

Posted on May 06, 2012
I hadn’t ever given much thought to the Singapore Sling until a friend of mine who was getting into cocktails ordered us up a pair out in San Francisco a couple years ago.  It wasn’t a signature of the bar we were at (I think they had to look it up in fact) and I [...

In re: All American: Cinco de Mayo

Posted on May 06, 2012
You can’t get much more American than the Fifth of May, better known as Cinco de Mayo.  Cinco de Mayo’s origins are not surprisingly Mexican and come from the State of Puebla, where they celebrate on May 5: El Día de la Batalla de Puebla, commemorating the Mexican army’s victory over the French in 1862 at [...

In re: Fried Chicken

Posted on April 22, 2012
I don’t have it too often (fortunately or unfortunately), but fried chicken is one of those foods that while seemingly incredibly simple and common, can and often is, so much more.  Thomas Keller makes it and so do plenty of gas stations, which makes it kind of democratizing meal of sorts – but rather than [...

In re: Bánh mì

Posted on February 20, 2012
Okay, so been a Vietnamese kick recently as the post on Pho may have hinted at, today I’ll turn our attention to bánh mì: Bánh mì in Vietnamese refers to bread – specifically the baguette that we can thank French colonialism for introducing to Vietnam, but the name bánh mì at least here in the [...

In re: Pho

Posted on February 19, 2012
Faux pho A couple weeks back when my fiancé was feeling under the weather and was making up some ramen (including the little packet – something I never quite developed the taste for) I decided I’d go a bit more for the flavor of Pho, but without having many ingredients or the time to make [...

In re: Bric-a-brac / speaking American

Posted on January 22, 2012
Spent a few hours yesterday running some errands, including a few stops at thrift shops looking for a typewriter (long story for another time).  In the course of entering/exiting and walking through  a selection of Columbus’ thrift shops encountered a variety of individuals from cross sections of Columbus I don’t always see...

In re: Winter miracles

Posted on January 07, 2012
January 7th in Ohio doesn’t usually bring with it 50 degree weather – but this year it did and that meant the bike path was full of bikers and walkers, the tennis courts even had people in shorts.  We took advantage of it and headed off on a nice long walk with the dogs in [...

In re: Conquering the New Year

Posted on January 06, 2012
So it’s a new year and a lot of folks are trying to live up to their resolutions. I’ve never been that into them, maybe its the cliche nature of the whole thing, but this year I’ve come up with a few basic ideas of things I’d like to try and do and hopefully cliche [...

In re: Home take on Northstar?s ham and cheese biscuit

Posted on November 15, 2011
Northstar is officially a Columbus institituion, having grown from a location in the Short North to having locations in Beechwald and Easton as well as opening Third & Hollywood in Grandview. Northstar does a great job of mixing genres, combining simple with upscale, quality with casual, and mixing healthy with not so much...

In re: more canning? green tomato relish

Posted on November 14, 2011
Just like the hipsters in Brooklyn we’ve been doing some home canning this summer, and with the last harvest of the year we grabbed a whole bunch of green tomatoes before the first frost hit. Hating to see such a beautiful lot go to waste we decided to turn them into some relish and can [...

In re: Cider braised chicken with Ohio apple brandy

Posted on October 19, 2011
Saw this recipe the other day on WOSU our local PBS station on an episode of Cooks Country. The recipe is for Apple Cider Chicken, which uses bone in chicken pieces, seared in a pan, where a braising sauce is then made, with the chicken then going back into the pan to finish in the oven [...

In re: The end of summer and jalapeño jelly

Posted on October 19, 2011
The other day we went out into the garden which is still loaded with vegetables (although a lot of them are green tomatoes that may never ripen with the cool wet weather now) and harvested everything we could and pitched all the bad tomatoes into the compost bin...

In re: Doesn?t California have better things to be doing?

Posted on October 17, 2011
Saw in the NY Times this morning that California has coming into effect soon a ban on foie gras. For those that don’t remember Chicago for a time passed a similarly dumb law. Why do I say dumb? Well for one foie gras is misunderstood – go watch how it’s made, the animals treated and [...

In re: accidental Korean tacos

Posted on September 18, 2011
Korean Taco Recently I taped the Kimchi chronicles on PBS, which oddly enough features Jean George Vongerichten and his wife Marja.  Well actually it’s not that odd because it turns out his wife is Korean and hence the TV show.  Watching them put together some Korean food got me excited to cook up some at [...

In re: Take back the $5 value meal

Posted on September 16, 2011
Slow Food has put forth a challenge for September 17: “THE CHALLENGE: This September 17, you’re invited to take back the ‘value meal’ by getting together with family, friends and neighbors for a slow food meal that costs no more than $5 per person...

In re: peach cobbler

Posted on August 01, 2011
Been eating a lot of these amazing Ohio peaches that are now in season (the above peaches from Utica Ohio).  While they are of course amazing all by themselves, occasionally you gotta change it up.  Having just seen Jamie Oliver make a nice looking rustic apple tart, my take away from it was the idea [...

In re: Homemade texas flour tortillas

Posted on July 24, 2011
So to improve upon my breakfast tacos I decided this morning to make some fresh flour tortillas, in the Texas style. While many may say that flour tacos are an Americanized bastardization of the corn tortilla, they would be wrong.  True corn tacos dominate mexico, but there is some flour tortillas in the north where [...

In re: Battle of Ohio ? Mustard edition

Posted on July 23, 2011
Over the Fourth of July weekend I went down to see one of the Battle of Ohio/I-71 Series/Indians v. Reds/whatever you want to call it interleague game between my Cleveland Indians and the Reds. Was a great time, a pretty decent number of Indians fans showed up, which helped add to the atmosphere...

In re: Paella

Posted on July 20, 2011
Last year I took a trip to Spain and brought back an amazingly cheap (around 5 euros on clearance ) paella pan that I found on clearance at El Corte Ingles (where I found myself frequently shopping with their open late grocery store – a rarity in Spain)...

In re: Flip Flop Fly Ball

Posted on July 18, 2011
Recently recieved as an early birthday present (very early indeed) a fantastic book Flip Flop Fly Ball by Craig Robinson.  I had seen a few shots from the book and knew instantly when I saw it that I would love it.  (I love graphical representations of information and have the amazing Charles Joseph Minard depiction [...

In re: Wall Street Journal sinking to new lows?

Posted on July 18, 2011
The measure that really matters is the market’s, and on that score Mr. Hinton was at the helm when we again became America’s largest daily. via Review & Outlook: News and Its Critics – WSJ.com. To be fair the Wall Street Journal is a good publication excluding aside some of their crazy opinion pieces that [...

In re: Netflix price rise should be no surprise

Posted on July 13, 2011
Upset that Netflix is raising its prices? Go buy meth where your local Blockbuster used to be! -robdelaney rob delaney on twitter If your a Netflix subscriber (and I am currently not, but I do join on and off when I get in the mood to watch some movies) you have no doubt heard about [...

In re: breakfast tacos

Posted on July 12, 2011
  Recently took a trip to Austin, TX and came away wanting to go back for a number of reasons.  One of them has to be the breakfast tacos, not necessarily the actual items which can be duplicated fairly easily at home, but the idea of them.  There is something about the cross cutting nature [...

In re: Daily deals and the law

Posted on July 11, 2011
Interesting post over at TechCrunch discussing a number of legal issues touching on daily deals (and how they may be violating laws, especially consumer protection).  Like any area that is new and evolving its unclear what daily deals (Groupon, Living Social, Faveroo here in Columbus among others) are and you might be able to fit [...

In re: the future of tv advertising?

Posted on July 09, 2011
Saw a post that talked about a new idea for getting ads into tv reruns, editing in ads into the show that weren’t there before.  Kinda sounds strange if you think about it, seeing a Seinfeld episode from the early 90s with an ad for a current movie on a bus going by — but [...

In re: How a banned Polish vodka finally made it to the US

Posted on June 06, 2011
Came across this article and plan to check out the US version.  A long time ago had tried ?ubrówka in Poland and despite being not that into Vodka thought it was really good and brought back a bottle (didn’t know it was illegal exactly, just thought you couldn’t sell unfiltered vodka in the US)...

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