Beat your fruit

Posted 2 Feb 2012

Food, Signs | 5 Comments 

Piñata apples: Because there are some days when you’d rather swing a large stick at your fruity snack while wearing a blindfold.

Spice out of reach

Posted 25 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Food, Guest Post | 3 Comments 

“How is one supposed to get a bay leaf out without removing the top?”

A great question posed by a reader from Chicago!

Any clever suggestions for this reader?

¿Preguntas o Comentarios?

Posted 17 Jan 2012

Daily Life, Food, Language | 4 Comments 

Para contactar Kellogg’s con preguntas o comentarios acerca de los Corn Flakes por favor llama por teléfono. Tus comentarios escritos en Español no pueden ser leídos, pero con gusto te atenderán por teléfono en tu idioma.

Visual taste buds

Posted 12 Jan 2012

Design, Food | 2 Comments 

Have you ever had food that was too beautiful to eat?

The chemical difference between ingredients and poison

Posted 22 Dec 2011

Daily Life, Food, Weird | 1 Comment 

While munching my way through more than my fair share of some Hostess Donettes on a recent Saturday morning, I flipped the package around to take a little study of the ingredients at my less than overly healthy breakfast.

While perusing the lengthy list of chemicals that make up the ingredient list, I was shocked at how so many of the items were just a chemical bond away from being poison. Ok, I am no scientist, but here is my list of initial concerns:

• Does it seem amazing or frightening to anyone else that these donuts have glycerin? How many movies have we all seen where protagonists blow up loads of stuff using the highly volatile nitro-glycerin?
• What is Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate? Pyrophosphate sounds like it must absolutely be explosively dangerous.
• Cocoa proceed with alkali sounds disconcertingly similar to the process by which cocaine is produced.