Category: food
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Things That Have Been Weighing Heavily on My Mind
“Mother tongue” is a really gross-sounding way of identifying one’s native language. It brings to mind images of either a very large tongue, or a sentient tongue that pops out little baby tongues. There is a commercial on the radio for some kind of truck, advertising that you can “drive on roads that have never…
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Vodka Illusions
Bill Deys recently wrote about a Business Week article stating that, in a blind taste test, all vodkas taste pretty much the same. It was an informal test with a writer and a few friends. Without statistical analysis, it’s impossible to tell if the friends were guessing at an above-chance level or not (there was…
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Once You Touch It, You Can’t Keep Your Hands Off It
Just moments after I wrote yesterday’s post, friends showed up with video games and a whole bunch of SNACKS. It was wonderful. If you have a Wii, and I know many of you do, then you owe it to yourself to try this game called Boom Blox. It doesn’t sound very awesome when you describe…
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