Strawberry Ice Cream: A Slightly Tweaked Classic
Happy 4th of July, and welcome to Summer Plus, the hottest season around. Let me walk you through a summer classic with a little twist. I love experimenting with crazy ice cream flavors. I have made things from sweet corn to malted-mint chocolate ice cream. I love the almost chewy…
Westworld: Let’s Be Honest
**very mild spoilers to follow** After the end of Westworld’s first season I wasn’t sure exactly what the show was going to do. It’s a mystery based fiction, bouncing ideas around and seeing if the audience can discern which ones should be sticking. The end of season one essentially put…
The Nintendo Wii Edition of the Totes Mathematical Top Ten Game List for Every Console Ever!
The console released before the Wii was the Nintendo Gamecube and it was a good little machine. It didn’t sell well and it wasn’t particularly innovative, but many people, including me, loved the thing. What’s crazy is how much more it could have been. Nintendo had sunk a ton of…
Anthony Bourdain, depression, food, and loss
Since his death last Friday, I have seen so many reactions to the loss of Anthony Bourdain. People and magazines have covered it from his impact on sharing food to his impact on sharing cultures. People have brought up his accomplishments, like an award from the Muslim Public Affairs Council to…
Can You Go Home Again? Revisiting Favorite Childhood Books
Is it possible to go home again? Are your favorite books of childhood actually as good as you remember? Or should they simply remain just that, memories, never to be revisited? I went back to my childhood touchstones to see. The results were varied and interesting. Chronicles of Narnia by CS…
Spring deserves a new ice cream flavor
It has been ages since I made an ice cream so I started getting the ice cream itch. Then I went to Disney during and EPCOT food festival. The result is that I came home inspired by flavors and jumped into churning almost immediately. And this is my first result.…
