https://www.allrecipes.com/article/this-is-the-only-time-you-should-wash-a-raw-turkey/? This Is the ONLY Time You Should Wash a Turkey Are you planning on washing that raw turkey before roasting it? You might want to think again. By Carl Hanson Updated September 16, 2021 CREDIT: MEREDITH According to a study by the food safety experts at the USDA, washing or rinsing raw turkey can put you at … Continue reading Do not wash poultry before cooking
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How to eat safely on an airplane
https://www.eater.com/22758210/eating-while-flying-airplane-covid-safe Eating on an Airplane Is Still Risky. Here’s How to Do It. Studies show COVID transmission on a plane is highest during maskless mealtimes, but you don’t need to starve to stay safeby Elazar Sontag Nov 2, 2021, 10:00am EDT Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window)Share this on Twitter (opens in new window)SHAREAll … Continue reading How to eat safely on an airplane
Inflation in food prices having a global impact
https://www.wsj.com/articles/global-food-prices-surge-as-inflation-spreads-11636119367 Global Food Prices Surge as Inflation Spreads From Peru to the Philippines, bad harvests and supply bottlenecks are leaving poor families hungry By Samantha Pearson and Luciana Magalhaes | Photographs by Dado Galdieri for The Wall Street JournalNov. 5, 2021 9:36 am ET SÃO PAULO—Earlier this year, Celia Matos, a single mother from São Paulo’s Paraisópolis favela, could afford … Continue reading Inflation in food prices having a global impact
A candy maker looks to its consumers and (gasp!) reverses a change
Here is a story that will make you smile. https://slate.com/human-interest/2021/10/skittles-for-halloween-this-year-see-you-later-green-apple.html It’s a Lime Skittles Halloween Green, crunchy ellipsoids for all. BY DANIEL SCHROEDEROCT 27, 202110:58 AM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Mars Inc. and Karsten Winegeart on Unsplash. TWEETSHARECOMMENT Skittles are the only candy I’m giving out this Halloween. That’s because the company that makes them, … Continue reading A candy maker looks to its consumers and (gasp!) reverses a change
Will supply problems (goods and workers) spoil Christmas in the U.K.?
http://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/will-supply-chain-issues-ruin-christmas? Will Supply-Chain Issues Ruin Christmas? By Anna Russell November 2, 2021 In recent weeks, an acute labor shortage in the U.K.’s farming and agricultural sector has cast a decidedly unfestive pall over seasonal preparations.Photograph by Hollie Adams / Getty The run-up to the Christmas season in London—manic, festooned—begins exceptionally early. The lights over Regent Street … Continue reading Will supply problems (goods and workers) spoil Christmas in the U.K.?
Prohibition against refusing to accept cash catches upscale Van Leeuwen ice cream shop
https://ny.eater.com/2021/10/29/22752696/van-leeuwen-ice-cream-cashless-ban-fines-nyc NYC Fines Upscale Ice Cream Shop Van Leeuwen for Violating Cashless Ban The fancy ice cream purveyor was charged with 17 violations of the law in 2021by Erika Adams Oct 29, 2021, 4:03pm EDT Van Leeuwen on the Upper West Side. Van Leeuwen’s cashless days appear to be over. The fancy, minimalist ice cream purveyor has … Continue reading Prohibition against refusing to accept cash catches upscale Van Leeuwen ice cream shop
Stanley Tucci loves life and food
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/stanley-tucci-is-savoring-it-all? Stanley Tucci Is Savoring It All By Helen RosnerOctober 31, 2021 Tucci’s realization that food, and not acting, is the central passion of his life came in 2017, after he was diagnosed with a form of oral cancer.Photograph by Mary McCartney / Trunk Archive Stanley Tucci has been in front of the camera, in one … Continue reading Stanley Tucci loves life and food
The U.S. is behind the entire E.U. in how it takes care of its citizens — Michael Moore gives us details
It's becoming more and more difficult to come up with any measure by which the United States comes within even the top ten -- whether it's the number of women who die giving birth, the expense of college, childcare and so many other measures. Instead we bleed off our wealth into the hands of those … Continue reading The U.S. is behind the entire E.U. in how it takes care of its citizens — Michael Moore gives us details
A scintilating biography about a pioneer of pottery offers unexpected pleasures
I'm of the generation that still bought and used bone china and silverware. I always marveled at the translucency of a plate. Others in my family still have collections of Wedgwood objects and cameos. How marvelous to find this delightful biography. http://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24/books/review-radical-potter-josiah-wedgwood-tristram-hunt.html A Transporting and Cozy Biography of a Pottery Pioneer By Alexandra Jacobs Oct. 24, … Continue reading A scintilating biography about a pioneer of pottery offers unexpected pleasures
Finally, a memoir by Trader Joe
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/trader-joe-wrote-a-memoir Trader Joe Wrote a Memoir By Carrie BattanOctober 20, 2021 In “Becoming Trader Joe,” Joe Coulombe writes that he was prone to engaging in acts of “selfish altruism.”Photograph by John Blackmer / Orange County Register / Getty In the sixties, a thirty-two-year-old entrepreneur named Joe Coulombe presided over a midsize chain of California convenience stores … Continue reading Finally, a memoir by Trader Joe
Yet another examination of coffee and caffeine
https://apple.news/A59pgyqyMTZe51G1yo5E28g Clean Energy If the last time you thought about your caffeine consumption was [glances at watch] never, know that cutting back every now and then can rev your engine. This playbook will make a reset work for you. If the perk-you-up promise of a cup of coffee is one of the only things getting … Continue reading Yet another examination of coffee and caffeine
Comparative prices at 7 grocery stores on Manhattan’s UWS
With Food Prices Jumping, How Do UWS Markets Compare? Frugal Frannie Investigates… Posted on October 16, 2021 at 8:33 pm by West Sider By Frugal Frannie Tis the season of check-out shock. My typical grocery shop used to hit around $50 a go. But in September, each trip started landing at over $60. How about … Continue reading Comparative prices at 7 grocery stores on Manhattan’s UWS
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