Husband & I spent the day at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. We spent lots of time admiring the coffee-growing display and we enjoyed a presentation by a pair of Colombian coffee farmers about all things coffee.
Category Archives: food and drink
As American as Apple Pie
Michele B and I don’t bake together. Here’s why.
What I imagine it’s like when Michele is baking:
What I know it’s like with me in the kitchen:
I knew the random bottle of banana liquor I found in the cabinet would find a purpose
Spring Cleanse
It seems like practically everyone we know is doing a Cleanse of some kind. Master Cleanse, juice cleanse, high-protein cleanse.
Cleanse, cleanse, cleanse.
The peer pressure has simply gotten to be too much.
I hereby announce that I’m doing a Spring Cleanse.
I started last night. I call it The Margarita Cleanse.
It was working well until I felt the need to demonstrate to husband the baboon behavior that resembles the yogic sun salutation series. Then it was still working well, but one whole side of the Taqueria got pretty quiet while I held my arms up in the air and screeched.
OK, I didn’t really screech, but I probably should have. Just holding my arms up in the air probably looked ridiculous.
This morning, I’d like to request that you not do any screeching.
Going bananas!
Since bananas have been a recurring theme lately, I thought I’d post this hilarious clip from the Colbert Report:
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Glenn Beck’s Goldline ads make me want to crawl out of my skin- I’m going to embed a short mash-up of Beck’s gold-pandering for reference in the event you’re unaware of his idiocy:
If you want to learn about bananas, the USDA National Agricultural Library is a great place to start. I was going to do a quick search to find the exact number of banana varieties (it’s around 1000, not 1 – the number being widely reported in blight stories), but now I’m fascinated by stats that the Cavendish accounts for only 13% of the total world crop. 13% of 98 million tons isn’t insignificant, but it’s a much lower number than I expected to find. The economic consequence of blights and other problems aren’t diminished).
Fascinating. Now I need to drink some coffee and read more about bananas.