Please, please let there be some extra money for public broadcasting coming from the Obama government soon.  Then we might see daylight on the Tunnel of Endless Fundraising at the Bay Area's PBS stations.  It used to be that PBS would accost us every six months or so, and tried to in...

The current titleholder is Gimmee Jimmy's in Montclair, New Jersey, which uses real cake icing rather than the thin, diamond-hard drizzle of shellac so familiar to diner and ethnic bakery patrons across the tri-state area.  Repeat 'tri-state area' in a Dr. Doofenshmirtz voice if yo...

So distressing to see one of my favorite actors jump on the roller coaster and become a spokesperson for Jennie Craig.  Sadly she probably thinks she's doing people a public service by getting them to improve their health.  Perhaps the FA community can save up to sponsor a Health at ...

I love ethnic takeout.  It may be a function of childhood deprivation.  Until I was around ten there was no ethnic food in my hometown at all.  First there was mediocre Chinese, and then a Mexican restaurant opened that has to be the envy of all its kind since it tapped into a Midw...

Does anyone else have fond memories of the now discontinued Hostess snack cake with chocolate cream in the middle?  It resembled a Suzy Q in that it had two distinct rectangular chocolate cake layers separated by filling, and it resembled a Zinger in that it had chocolate frosting on top....

She first charmed us with a homophobic little dance number disguised as something provocative.  "It's not what good girls do," ey?  Leave your adolescent rebellion out of other people's liberation struggles, 'kay thx bye.  Then she followed up with  anot...

Kind of living on Progresso soups at the mo,* what with the coughing and all.  Have rediscovered my childhood favorite, which used to be called Chickarina and not available in the midwest so we pounced on it like cats on a dangling yarn thread whenever we saw it, now renamed Italian Wedding So...

This woman is trying to finish four chapters in three weeks.  Yes, you read that right.  And maintain a blog.  And attend a conference.  She's a scientist which means that the material doesn't have to come directly out of her head because she has data, but...damn, fel...

At the end of the traveling chocolate exhibit, which the fam and I experienced at the Indiana State Museum, there is a chocolate store.  The exhibition is extremely well designed for its target audience of school groups. It may also assume that the average American has the reading comprehensio...

I'm not ashamed to admit that I enjoy some candy from the big houses.  I've been known to buy a king-sized Kit Kat in my time.  But my favorite mainstream bars at the moment are the Almond Joy/Mounds combo.  So I was excited to have gotten the Choxie coconut bar in my stock...