Curing and Related Book Adventures

As I noted in a recent Facebook status update, the second gravlax is underway. This time the base fish is two slabs of a farm-raised Atlantic salmon.

Vegetarian 100 – Tigers and Strawberries

Like the previous gourmand’s meme I already did.

Link to this new one’s original post.

Happy belated birthday to me!

Last night, we had a wonderful protein rich dinner with silverbackbutch and biblespice, to celebrate various birthdays and victories!

It was a good time. They helped drink beer from our fridge that has been languishing and needs to be drunk before October.

They also brought cognac soaked peaches and fine chocolate. We got more than a little [...]

The Fallacy of Eating Leading to Obesity

The BBC on the recent University College London study on 5,000 twins (identical and fraternal) that demonstrates that “Obesity ‘may be largely genetic’”.

Additionally, Junkfood Science has a very well written summary of a seminal 1940’s study on starvation and physiological/psychological responses to starvation, as well as what happens when starvation is remedied and folks’ eating [...]

Foods I’ll eat

On request from folks I know, I now catalog all the foods I eat and/or try to avoid.

Bedward ruminations

Trivia about this evening.