Posted on May 31, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
These cakes are designed to indicate the proportions of the ingredients in each, and were taken from the website of a group of food designers sponsored by Marti Guixe which sells cooking supplies in Barcelona. According to the site “A food designer is somebody working with food, with no idea of cooking” and who
“makes [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
These cakes are designed to indicate the proportions of the ingredients in each, and were taken from the website of a group of food designers sponsored by Marti Guixe which sells cooking supplies in Barcelona. According to the site “A food designer is somebody working with food, with no idea of cooking” and who
“makes [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
Who knows if Google is going to end up knowing more about me than I know myslef and use that information to turn me into a bipedal plow animal? Right know I think they’re doing a terrific job of keeping me entertained and, Ahem, informed. And they keep coming up with surprises like the new [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
Who knows if Google is going to end up knowing more about me than I know myslef and use that information to turn me into a bipedal plow animal? Right know I think they’re doing a terrific job of keeping me entertained and, Ahem, informed. And they keep coming up with surprises like the new [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
Chances are that if prehistoric Eurasians hadn’t chosen to domesticate aurochs ca. 6500BCE, they’d have simply hunted them to extinction as they apparently had done to the woolly mammoth and a host of other mega-fauna. Actually, late and post-Pleistocene hunter-gathers are believed by some (notably Jared Diamond see “Guns, Germs, and Steel” NY: Norton, 1997) [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
Chances are that if prehistoric Eurasians hadn’t chosen to domesticate aurochs ca. 6500BCE, they’d have simply hunted them to extinction as they apparently had done to the woolly mammoth and a host of other mega-fauna. Actually, late and post-Pleistocene hunter-gathers are believed by some (notably Jared Diamond see “Guns, Germs, and Steel” NY: Norton, 1997) [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
The best sauce in the world is hunger.
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Posted on May 30, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
See me, Feed me
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Posted on May 27, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
A former dishwasher has written a book about his experience of being a dishwasher. I have not read the book and probably won’t until I get through the stack that’s on my desk right now (below) but I’m betting it’s worth a shot. Anyone who has ever worked in a professional kitchen knows that as [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2007 by bobdelgrosso
A former dishwasher has written a book about his experience of being a dishwasher. I have not read the book and probably won’t until I get through the stack that’s on my desk right now (below) but I’m betting it’s worth a shot. Anyone who has ever worked in a professional kitchen knows that as [...]
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