Pros: This Palo Alto favorite has a lovely interior and an innovative menu.  Try the crisp roti and curry sauce as an appetizer.  Cons: Entree portions are on the smallish side. ...

This recipe started out on Epicurious, where it had been culled from Bon Appetit.  I changed almost all the ingredients with impunity and it worked out fine, so I encourage you to do your own experimenting or even try the original recipe since it sounds good too ;)  Ingredients One froze...

The Canadian sitcom Little Mosque on the Prairie did a pretty hilarious takedown of self-righteous hippies in a December episode by enlisting its most self-righteous conservative Muslim.  Babur is a Pakistani immigrant who teaches economics in what he claims is the land of the infidels (but we ...

Fat Louie is dissertatin' and will be back soon. ...

To give a speech in which only about three sentences were pandering to the far right and the rest was an artfully crafted denunciation of what we're leaving behind combined with an exhortation to recreate our country in its own best image, was something of a miracle.  That fifty years afte...

The Daily Green lists the fruits and veggies with the lowest pesticide loads.  Imagine what a pass we've come to, the 'lowest' pesticide loads.  Anyhow, substantive posting will resume tomorrow when I'm over my mild jet lag.  And I have to say hurrah for the new Typepad platform, beca...

2 Hippos retools a carnivore's list and makes it useful for the veggie cook....

Do not drink a lot of agua fresca quickly.   The good news is that when you place the open cup of strawberry agua fresca on your white-ish rug and say to yourself 'don't spill that' and then you spill it anyway, 409 carpet cleaner will get it out.  Also, no matter how t...

Got a pair of arms?  Then volunteer a little of your time to Food Runners, an organization that transfers unused food from restaurants directly to shelters and food banks....

Has anyone else on Foodbuzz noticed an unusual amount of comment spam since the site went public?  Fortunately it seems to congregate on old posts rather than my front page, but Typepad's filter is not catching it all and it's super annoying. ...