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 from Ian Makay’s Food for Thought: The Pleasures of the Table: Primi Piatti   Boo! Beer and Babies Musings For those parts of the world influenced by European conquest and culture, the calendar’s final three months are […]

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 from Ian Makay’s Food for Thought: The Pleasures of the Table: Primi Piatti As the school year and autumn begin in the northern hemisphere, monthly musings keeps step with the season. This edition looks at school lunches around the world. […]

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 from Ian Makay’s Food for Thought: The Pleasures of the Table: Primi Piatti  Apparently Google agrees! Monthly musings starts this edition with a look bread and […]

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 […]