Damn, now I have to pay full price to replenish Mink Hippie’s cheese supply! cd PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) – Puzzled U.S. border police arrested a Mexican smuggler with 88 pounds (40-kg) of cheese hidden in a special compartment in his truck, police said on Friday. Customs and Border Protection spokesman Roger Maier said officers at…
Category: Food and Drink
Green pigment spins chip promise
An unpopular pigment used by artists in the 18th Century could lead to more energy efficient, faster computers. Cobalt green, as the dye is known, has been tested by a US team who believe it could be used in “spintronic” devices. Spintronics involves manipulating the magnetic properties of electrons to do useful computational work. Cobalt…
Chinese 'anger bar' is a big hit
I guess bartenders have always done more psychotherapy than psychologists…. A bar in eastern China has come up with a novel way of attracting clients – they are allowed to beat up the staff. The Rising Sun Anger Release Bar in Nanjing lets customers smash glasses, rant and even hit specially trained workers, state media…
Chop sui in Kailua
Mink Hippie and I have been trying to eat in every restaurant in Kailua. Not long ago we decided to focus on the chop suey joints. For an interesting background on Chop Suey click here to explore this unique Chinese American cuisine. It’s not Chinese food… The generally accepted wisdom on chop suey is that…
Stop complaining about the heat…make cookies…on your dash!
I wonder if everyone did this, baked, while they worked in AC, if the energy savings from convection and microwave ovens would balance out? Bake cookies, save the planet!!! cd BEDFORD, N.H. – Blistering heat was just what Sandi Fontaine needed to bake cookies for her co-workers — on the dash of her Toyota Rav4….
Hey Senators, you can call them French Fries again….'Death to Freedom Fries!"
Apparently, the powers that be have realized that it’s idiotic to call French Fries anything but French Fries. Personally, I think this is all an attempt to save face as the Ayatollah in Iran makes similar changes. What has been happening is certain parties are claiming in Iran that their language is being infused with…
Italian Food in Kailua
At the moment, we have visited all the Italian Restaurants in Kailua. Here they are. All of them are good. There will be a few new ones soon… 1. Peppino’s Italian Food-(23 Hoolai St, ph (808)262-5833) My personal favorite. Best Pizza in the Pacific. Low key, tasty, bring your own wine, won’t break any budget….
No Reservations: The Shwarma and Shrapnel Episode
As you’ve probably heard, Israel bombed the bejesus out of the airport in Beirut, stranding a bunch of tourists (mostly Arabs) in Lebanon. Turns out that Tony Bourdain (chef, TV ‘personality’ and mystery writer) is also stuck there…. [Thanks, MeFi.] “we are currently shooting an episode of NR in Lebanon–and it should be video gold….
Scientists Concoct Chocolate That Won't Melt
S.O. Ogunwolu and C.O. Jayeola, food scientists at the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, have mixed cornstarch with cocoa to produce a heat-resistant chocolate that they say compares “favorably with conventional milk chocolate in terms of color, taste, smoothness and overall acceptability.”The starch acts as a chocolate thickener and prevents the outflow of cocoa butter—the…
Ten Speed Press
Recently, Mink Hippie treated me to my first deep fried Twinkie at the Hawaii State Fair. At the time I thought that was about as outrageous as you could get with Twinkies…but, as is often the case (okay, once in a while, rarely..but sometimes) I was wrong…Apparently they are also good for pork loin side…