theremin chronicles

i heart cheese. i didn’t know until just right now that my love of stinky cheese is pheremone based!?!

i went to go see the most fantastic schnittmeisters at pixarpalooza the other day, and as i was chatting with steve afterwards, he gave me shit for my abandoned blog. “cripes!” i thought “my blog!” yes… yes… i have somehow managed to entirely abandon this poor vessel. but hark! i return and i’m on vacation [...]

plastics is the word of the future, says ben’s dad in the graduate. turns out that plastics might be the thing that drowns us all, but hell, we didn’t know that back then. with that said, it turns out that wood cutting boards might be safer than plastic cutting boards when it comes to bacteria. [...]

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so, there i was, cracking up over this link about the 6 most terrifying foods in the world. when i got to the #1 most terrifying food in the world, i realized “oh, shit! i’ve eaten that!” i don’t find it too hard to imagine that my peoples eat some pretty gross stuff – secretly, i think [...]

i was cracking up over these potato peeler gloves that michael and i saw at the walgreen’s. when i later stumbled upon wired’s review of the gloves, michael noticed this rad japanese method for peeling potatoes mentioned in the comments. screw you, tatermitts!

i love that there is a wikipedia entry on toast.

i’ve always been curious why there seems to be so many people i know (mostly women) who have gluten allergies. then i heard this bit on npr about how only 1% of the population has a reaction to gluten – i’m a little skeptical to believe that the entire 1% lives in the city of san [...]

i present to you, gentle reader: a fascinating and informative history of the alameda-weehawken burrito tunnel. (damn those new yorkers, taking all our burritos!)

i’m a little surprised with how many filmfatale pals are showing up in the media lately. tracy mcgillis, former chef of bar tartine and current proud mama of ben and owen is interviewed in this insightful article about the lack of nationally known female chefs.