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When you go to Chinatown, you're morally obligated to buy strange and unfamiliar goods, then decipher (and eat) them back home. It's Chinatown Roulette!
I was on the prowl for Taiwanese sarsaprilla for my root beer class when I was suddenly found myself face-to-face with the drink of my dreams:
Vinegar drinks. Apple vinegar drink. Plum vinegar drink. Beautiful, amazing, vinegary vinegar drinks.
A poorly-kept secret about me is that I...
Monday evening we had a class on suturing, and it was as awesome as it sounds. After learning some history and theory, we dove in and some bananas with some pretty serious wounds. Number #1 fact about suturing? It's hard.
During the class, I was particularly excited to learn that the oldest known suture dates to a mummy from 1100 BC, even though historians believe the practice goes back much further, to at least 3000 BC, and perhaps...
I have a rule about how to not get mugged: it's called ABR, and it stands for Always Be Running. If you are running, it is my belief that muggers will say "oh, that dude is running" and will decline to mug you.
Being at your desk is different. You probably won't be mugged, but you might be disorganized instead. In this case, the best advice one can give is ABK, Always Be Knolling.
Knolling is the process of arranging like objects in parallel...
Okay, let's be honest with each other: I'm not giving you any recipes (yet). I put together a batch of blueberry wine a month ago, and I need to make sure my house doesn't catch on fire before I really report back to you.
Blueberry wine? You cry incredulously. Blueberry wine? What happened to good ol' grapes?
I bought blueberries instead, is what happened.
Fact: You can make wine out of pretty much anything. From Wikipedia:
Although...
When you go to Chinatown, you're morally obligated to buy strange and unfamiliar goods, then decipher (and eat) them back home. It's Chinatown Roulette!
Asia Market is a little more interesting than your standard-issue Chinatown grocer because of how much shelf space is dedicated to Southeast Asian goods. Indonesian, Malaysian and Vietnamese spices and mixes abound, making it a little more esoteric than most places you might stumble into.
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