Continue Reading Plump thing with a navel Xitomatl is the Aztec name for tomatoes, who originated, it is believed, in Peru. The translation can be found in today’s title….
Continue Reading The GMO Controversy The Myth of Frankenfood And you thought you’d be safe from politics for a bit. We have to tackle the question of genetically modified organisms, though,…
Continue Reading Cabbage One of the Brexit goals was the desire to escape the idiocy of European Union regulations – 26,911 words on the sale of cabbage,…
Continue Reading Artichokes Prickly about having to eat your vegetables? Might as well start with the thistle family – and a vegetable that really looks…
Continue Reading Gemüse In 1993 we spent a sabbatical in Cambridge, England. That is D. spent it in some hallowed university hall. I spent it…
Continue Reading Mechanics We’ll end this week with a few beautiful photographs of a friend of mine, Dale Schreiner, who has spent a lot of…
Continue Reading Of Cars and Men Owners of special cars can be divided into two groups: the nice and the not so nice. I happily chat up the first…
Continue Reading Heuer & Co. on the Road Last year I flew to LA and rented a car for a road trip back to Portland. Quite the adventure in that…
Continue Reading Tales from the Hood Early cars used to have radiator caps with a thermometer sticking out to warn about potential overheating. In the 1920s these were…
Continue Reading Bumper Stickers Have you ever contemplated the fact that bumper stickers (or any other form of messaging on cars) often seem funny when you…
