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https://www.fastcompany.com/90313508/why-top-restaurants-are-getting-rid-of-stoves-and-why-you-might-too

Salmonella in Sobeys' Compliments brand chicken nuggets: http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-27/eng/1551284021762/1551284022043 C. botulinum in Boffo's smoked trout (Ontario only) http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-27/eng/1551329123161/1551329125331

That's the little Chinese buffet place a couple of blocks away from me. When I started going there a decade or so ago, the kids were preschoolers. They proudly helped clear the dirty dishes, and galloped messages from the buffet to the kitchen to let them know what was getting low. A couple of years later they would sit in a back corner with others of the extended family, painstakingly assembling wontons. Now they're in middle school and I seldom see them actually in the restaurant, but feel a twinge when I occasionally pass the whole family in a supermarket. It's almost like watching one's own kids/grandkids grow up.

Apparently the CIA is switching its focus to subscription-based services and ebooks, so a number of boring ol' dead-tree books and DVDs are marked down to $10/ea from their original prices. https://shop.ciaprochef.com/collections/all

Yeah, that part fractured me as well.

Just at cross purposes, I suspect. We got off on that tangent because you'd spoken of having a box of tissues on the table in lieu of napkins, so mentally I extrapolated that to paper napkins specifically (since tissues would be a more intuitive replacement for the paper kind than the linen kind). It was a flippant throw-away remark in the first place, which I perhaps might not have made if the blood level had been a bit lower in my caffeine system.

https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/02/gordon-ramsay-autism-food-sensory-processing.html

Yeah, I know. It felt weird at the time, is all. This sort of thing is fading, along with many other regional distinctions in vocabulary and usage, but it was still common when I was growing up. Now it's mostly something one brings up in fun (that was the original intent of this little digression), usually in conversation with Americans like my late wife. She was amused by "serviette" and "settee" and various other anachronisms I don't recall off the top of my head.

When I was a kid I only saw the word "napkin" in conjunction with the word "sanitary," so that was a bit of an adjustment for me when I got older and moved away from Atlantic Canada.

LOL Don't you mean "serviettes"?

https://www.bonappetit.com/story/david-mcmillan-sober

Pro tip: Go to the store and buy more Gruyere. When you open the fridge to put in the new one, the old one will leap out at you and shout "Surprise!" ...or at least, that's how it works at my place.

If you live in Ontario, and have bought Vietnamese "fish mint" from Canada Herb: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-19/eng/1550634791027/1550634793145

When I was a youngster, working out in Saskatchewan as a security guard, I wandered into the truckstop one night to refill my thermos with coffee (it was -42 C, IIRC, and hot coffee was a must for outdoor patrolling). While I was wandering the aisles, I was startled to see - in among the Playboy-logo air fresheners and mirrored stick-ons of unclad/shapely females - boxes of nylons boldly labeled as "Man-T-Hose." Apparently truckers wore them in the seriously cold weather as an under-layer beneath their more conventional winter warms. I was both amazed and amused.

Note (before trying this at home) that the researchers accumulated quite a "microwave graveyard" in the process.

The meal sounds delightful, as does your attitude. My parents were still very cuddly and smooch-y right up to the end (my dad passed away of cancer in the middle of their 55th year together), and they still spent most of their time alone together very happily in their little country retreat. Their reasoning, as explained by my mom, was "we didn't get married to spend time apart" so once my father left the navy they seldom did.

I'm attempting to, with the caveats that a) I may not always remember; b) I'm sometimes traveling between provinces and won't always do so in a timely fashion; and c) I'll probably post only the pathogen-related ones rather than the allergy-related ones. Anyone wanting to be added the CFIA's email notifications system can do so at this link: http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/email-notification/eng/1481653931267/1481654078038

This one actually stood a chance of affecting me, because I buy this particular sweet kale salad occasionally. Listeria monocytogenes is the culprit, and it's possibly national (Canada). http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-17/eng/1550451685800/1550451687861

I've heard that from other competitive growers as well, and apparently milk does work reasonably well as a liquid fertilizer. Injecting it is probably not that great an idea (why damage your vines and give opportunity for pests/illness), though I'm sure some do it anyway. Serious competitors from what I've read use chelated calcium instead.

Stashing pots and pans when they're not in use?

LOL Yes, as it happens. She did have a hot temper though, and smashed a few of my things with a hammer. Her ex passed away while she and I were together. Went to the hospital after a minor heart attack, and while they were doing an echocardiogram the ultrasound tech noticed a mass adjacent to his heart...and another one in his lung...and another one, and another one...turned out he was riddled with cancer, and died a week later.

Californian, actually. She grew up in Huntington Beach. Though at the time of the infamous chainsaw incident she and her then-hubby lived in the Sierras, if that's any help.

A lot of low-carb breads work on a similar pattern, using something like coconut flour to provide the bulk and then adding vital wheat gluten for structure. It's also handy if you want to play around with adding things like quinoa flour or oat flour to your conventional breads but still have a decent crumb.

http://inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2019-02-14/eng/1550194496843/1550194499013

My late wife's ex-husband once gave her a chainsaw for Christmas. A powder-blue Lady Husqvarna. That was 15 years before I knew her, and apparently it still rankled. She said the only reason she didn't use it to cut his Corvette in half was that she enjoyed driving it too. It seems he genuinely thought of it as a romantic gift, and had visions of her limbing out the trees he felled. You know...a togetherness, couples kind of thing. Doing stuff together. That's how it's supposed to work, right?