Boo! Beer and Babies

Boo! Beer and Babies scares up creep, holidays, Oktoberfest brews, great reads, seasonal health help, and a great recipe for fish and chips

Good ale is meat, drink, and cloth. A Compleat Collection of English Proverbsby JOHN RAYEnglish naturalist and collector of proverbs1628—1705   Boo! Beer and Babies Musings For those parts of the world influenced by European conquest and culture, the calendar’s final three months are holiday central. From autumnal beer to Halloween to Christmas, this edition of […]

Lunch, Lattes, and a Touch of Tartrazine

Tartrazine, Doritos, pumpkins, coffee, great books and more

When in doubt, eat your neighbor’s lunch. KEVIN HEARNEAmerican fantasy author1970—Trapped: The Iron Druid Chronicles   As the school year and autumn begin in the northern hemisphere, musings keeps step with the season. This edition of musings looks at school lunches around the world and something to consider before putting those chips into your kiddo’s […]

Winner! Winner! Sunday Dinner!

Winner! Winner! Sunday Dinner! French baguette-scented stamps and Danish tax unlike any other

A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. SAMUEL JOHNSONEnglish poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, critic,biographer,editor, lexicographer, and author1709—1784The Life of Samuel Johnson   Apparently Google agrees! Musings starts this edition with a look bread and cheese news from Europe then brings us to the 2024’s Google Doodle winner […]

No Cleaner Than a Kitchen

How clean is your kitchen and the food you eat?

Such is life. It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks of a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch. HONORÉ DE BALZACFrench novelist and playwright1799—1850Father Goriot […]