Tomorrow is October! Here in North Carolina, that’s a bit of a shocker. Our temperatures have been up and down lately but always warm and pleasant, in the 70s or 80s. However, this weekend, right on schedule, it’s getting cooler, even dropping into the low 40s at night. The latte menu at coffee shops and …
The Tour de France is here! For the next three weeks I will be obsessed and distracted by the Tour. It’s my favorite sporting event of the year. Watching it live in the morning is never enough for me; I like watching the different version of commentary in the later show too. I did say …
A bill in my home state of Massachusetts will make the quahog the state shellfish. What?! Did I hear a snicker out of you? Surely it’s because you don’t understand the magnificence of the quahog. And in case you’re wondering, it’s pronounced co-hog, not qwa-hog as a delusional Midwestern executive chef once tried to tell …
March Madness isn’t my thing. I’m not much of a basketball fan, only a fair-weather Georgetown fan, but once again they choked and bowed out early. Instead of NCAA brackets, I made my picks on the beer brackets at Draft magazine. Check it out, you could be a lucky kegerator winner. My other bracket site, …
During the 2008 Lenten season my yoga center in Sacramento offered the 40 Days to Personal Revolution program. It was a challenging and transforming experience – daily yoga practice and meditation, journaling, mindful eating and weekly meetings. I also gave up beer and wine for the 40 days — a sacrifice that wasn’t required but …
Did you know that one percent of all Google searches each day are for recipes? Google recently “added a new level of functionality that will allow users to sort by a recipe’s characteristics” like ingredients, cook time and calories. Unfortunately, Google’s preference for the huge recipe engines remains. “It’s going to favor some of the …
Here’s an update on the food situation in Egypt, paraphrased from Reuters. Egypt’s food inflation will continue to rise in 2011 reaching about 20 percent year-on-year. It will be difficult for Egypt to curb prices because prices are likely to remain globally high this year. The situation won’t be helped by a drop in the …
I spent an enjoyable few hours on Friday afternoon at Fullsteam brewery in Durham, NC drinking half pints of their exquisite brews: sweet potato lager (both regular and sour-mashed), persimmon winter ale, accompanied by cookies from South Durham Confection Company created specifically for this brew (what a match, swoon), and hickory-smoked porter. Sean Wilson, Fullsteam’s …
I’m a little late on this new study from researchers in Spain who say that moderate drinking of beer along with exercise and a Mediterranean diet “can cut the risk of diabetes and high blood pressure and even help people lose weight.” A pint a day keeps the doctor away! Great news for fish lovers: …
This is post #100 on Grabbing the Gusto. Instead of one of my usual cooking posts, I’m taking this opportunity to review the five posts with the most views to see what I can learn. #5 – Behind the Brews: Live Blogging with the NC Brewers Guild When you have a post that piggybacks onto …
Grabbing the Gusto 