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You're welcome. I really enjoyed the book as well...it's a fascinating period, just at the cusp of New World foods beginning to arrive.

...another cookbook drawing from the Converso experience. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/12/22/789864201/trove-of-recipes-dating-back-to-inquisition-reveals-a-familys-secret-jewish-root

Really? Middle school always has that "Lord of the Flies" vibe to it...

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/01/the-math-of-brewing-a-better-espresso/

My sister's hubby is a trucker, hauling seafood from Yarmouth NS to distributors in New England. Amusing to speculate if your salt cod had left the country on his truck. When I was a kid we would get "CARE packages" a couple of times a year from Newfoundland, which always included a few big, shingle-like whole salted cod from my grandparents. I always looked forward to those arriving, because it meant homemade fishcakes (not that those really belong on this thread, but...).

My mom's a big fan of their chocolate, and stocks up on it after the major holidays when it gets marked down.

Has it improved? I tried it 5 or 6 years ago, and found it crazy-making. Ordinarily I make my list on a whiteboard over the course of the week, and it takes me maybe a total of 5 minutes. OOM "simplified" that to about 45 minutes, and using it in-store was a trial as well.

A followup to this cropped up in my news this week: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/tareq-hadhad-canadian-citizen-1.5427390?cmp=FB_Feed_CBCMain

No, I think it's a pretty universal last-resort method to find what you're looking for.

My GF spotted those products on Amazon the other day. She's keto-ing, so I suspect there'll be some in our not-too-distant future.

I'm an oatmeal guy. The most satiating of the cereal-type breakfasts, according to the limited clinical research that has addressed the subject. In my case, I use steel-cut oats and add a handful of raisins (they plump nicely as the oats cook) and a generous sprinkle of cinnamon. Not the way my Scots ancestors would have done it, by any means, but it works for me. Sometimes I'll add a spoonful of yogurt or some additional fruit to the bowl.

Alberta only, ground frozen veal from The Italian Store has been recalled for E. coli: https://www.inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-01-13/eng/1578959926811/1578959932803?utm_source=r_listserv Also Alkanater brand tahini, possibly national, for salmonella. https://inspection.gc.ca/food-recall-warnings-and-allergy-alerts/2020-01-14/eng/1579039733281/1579039739334?utm_source=r_listserv

That, to me, is a "killer feature." I don't know anyone else who cares, but I'm the guy who lunges for the "cancel" button before the last few seconds tick off. My hearing is none of the best, but that piercing beep grates on my nerves. I've had a couple of microwaves in the past that cut the chirp when the door opened, and it was my favorite thing about them.

Something similar is available at Tim Horton's as well here in Canada, under the name "omelet bites." My GF's had them occasionally when keto-ing. No cottage cheese in this case. One version has whole eggs with bacon and cheese, the other is egg whites with spinach and cheese.

Supposedly it makes heating more even in the microwaves that have it. My new/current one (4-5 months) is a Panasonic w. inverter. Just FYI, one of the most common things that goes on microwaves is a simple fuse. Costs a couple of bucks to buy a replacement, the tricky part is getting into the unit (easy on a standalone, less trivial on a built-in).

This guy, and ditto.

I was shooting for the look of the little country churches you'll see up and down the coast here. The brushwork on the walls was an attempt at making royal icing look like shingled siding. It wasn't entirely successful, but it was an interesting effect.

Remember back in the day, when replacing conventional food with pills and powders was a standard sci-fi trope? Well...they're working on it. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51019798

It was spread out over a period of weeks, just whenever I had the time to tackle some of it. The last bit was rather rushed, as it always seems to be.

A few belated photos of the doings: Cookies drying on the racks: Ready to make up some baskets. Lots of different types of cookies, and the little tissue-wrapped bundles in the middle are mini-loaves of various kinds. A basket, with loaves beneath and cookies above, naked and then wrapped. This particular one went to my daughter's best friends/bridesmaids, hence the David's Tea gift card. The Christmas tree cookie covered in Skittles that you'll see in behind was decorated for us by a neighbour's little guy. Multiple views of the village. My plans for the surface itself were much more detailed, but ran afoul of time constraints. The decorating itself is not at all up to professional standards (again, time constraints...final touches went on in the last hour before everyone arrived for Christmas dinner), but this year was primarily a "proof of concept" as I learned how to work with the materials. Lots of lessons to keep in mind for next year.... It's better when illuminated, though the camera in my elderly Nexus 4 struggles in low light conditions. Just FYI, strings of LED mini Christmas lights make it look like there's a party going on inside. The little battery-operated faux tealights have a gentle flicker that nicely simulates a fire on the hearth inside the cottage. The little cottages were made with a cookie-cutter template from the dollar store. Two cuts equals one cottage. For the little church I just cut out a template from corrugated cardboard and ran with it. FYI, a microplane zester works marvels when it comes to straightening and squaring the pieces, or beveling them for a neater fit.

Pretty much. In fact her sheepish comment to reporters after this blew up was "...at least I'm pretty..."

Some of you may have seen this already: https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/11/us/family-feud-canada-popeyes-trnd/index.html

I'd read this a couple of years ago and tripped across it again this morning. It occurred to me that it fits well in the context of this discussion, so I'll throw it out here for anyone who's interested. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/plant-memory-hidden-vernalization

I'm guessing that would be some sort of Internet personality who streams live video. Most are pretty obscure, though a few have become "internet-famous" and actually make a buck from it.