The Crunch Has Come
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: The crunch HAS come, for my account on the virtual server I run this magazine and the OHaiCorona.com blog. I’m still paying pretty much all the fees associated with it, and now the size on disk is approaching the limit. I can’t afford to jump…
The Deconstructed Dog
A try at making something we liked and hope you might, too. I decided to make them open-face, as a) it let me add a fairly generous amount of fillings and b) the wider surface also let me put more cheese over the top and c) more area for grilled brown cheese! Yumm! The open-face…
BRAD Banish Recycling
A propos of recycling, here’s a scheme that you may wish to support. Bear in mind that while it is a cost, it’s a small cost compared to the ultimate cost that profligate waste is costing us already and will continue to cost us more and more as the months go by. Why Aren’t Corporations…
The Future Of Supermarkets
Not to put too fine a point – if Big Food has their way we’ll all be eating out every day all day. They don’t care who they sell to, as long as the produce keeps moving and the profits keep flowing in. In fact, if fewer people shopped for their ingredients and instead, more…
The Supermarkets Skinning Shoppers
News in the “supermarkets skinning shoppers scandal” I’ve been mentioning (This most recent post has links to many earlier ones) it’s not a huge scoop The TEdASPHERE Globe’s presenting here. Just that more and more industry organisations are coming forward with complaints and claims against the duopoly that Australia are calling “Colesworth,” but these days…
Snippet #4: Haute Something, Alright…
Haute Couture It wasn’t an April Fools’ joke: Independent Online reported on April 1 that fashion house Balenciaga has introduced a clear plastic bracelet that resembles a roll of packing tape, to the tune of about $3,000. The “Gaffer Bangle” includes an inside label that reads “Balenciaga Adhesive — Made in France.” The company reportedly…
The Planetary Health Diet
The new diet is “The Planetary Diet.” Emphasising a half plate of vegetables / fruit and then – oh – more vegetables (starchy vegetables) and plant sourced protein and unsaturated plant oils and whole grains, this is a bit of a nightmare to my mind. Mind you, this is almost the Mediterranean Diet, but not…
Tamam Shud
Sometimes things just beg for a quick comparison – in this case, an Aussie mystery almost eighty years old now but apparently solved, and an Aussie surf band turned psychedelic and prog rock band. And some words from Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Khayyam was a Persian poet whose 800 years old works (at…