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...
Okay, today we're starting a beer vinegar. You're probably familiar with malt vinegar, that fun thing that makes your fries soggy at the Chip Shop. That's made with an unhopped beer, but today we're using a homemade IPA (full of hops!) to make beer vinegar, so the finished product will likely be way more bitter, just like an IPA.
Note: this might turn out to be a huge disaster, but we won't know for four or five months. Hooray!
Are you...
We're working with Paul, who writes the math-focused blog Lost in Recursion, to come up with some mathy classes for the summer. Most importantly though, we need your feedback!
Let us know what topics, from the list below, you think might be most interesting/useful/fun to tackle. Just leave a comment below, and thanks in advance for being awesome. Feel free to suggest your own ideas as well.
Topics!
Sizes of Infinity
Mathematical Art
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We've talked about how to cook onions before, now let's talk about onion-industry-approved facts about how they're sized.
Maybe you've been curious about what a medium onion is. I was, too, until I found the United States Standards for Grades of Onions from the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service. Now, I know we aren't ones to let the government boss our food around, but their definition of a "medium onion" is one with a...
Okay, it's not secret, but we just added a session of Weird Spices for next Monday, May 7th. You'll get to taste all sorts of things that should really only be eaten in combination with other foods, and even get to try out Soma's (in)famous science lemons. Excellent!
