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Felix Ortiz (D-Brooklyn) has introduced a bill that would ban all use of salt in restaurant cooking. It provides for a $1,000 fine for each use of salt by restaurant staff before, during, or after cooking. Customers will retain the right to use salt if they choose. What this idiot has apparently NOT considered is [...]
March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Food Info, From The Cook, Spices, video, Vlog | Comments Off
This video is another in my “walking for life” series which looks like it’s going to turn into an entire Vlog in it’s own right but that’s ok, it gives me something to do while getting some exercise and that’s absolutely cool. By doing it regularly, it also helps give me that accountability that I [...]
November 13th, 2009 | Posted in Food Info, From The Cook, Health, losing weight, video | Comments Off
Because of the fact that at 330 pounds I am seriously overweight, I’ve spent a lot of time recently reading all kinds of stuff about losing weight and different diet plans and in the course of this I’ve run into quite a number of myths and outright lies that, if you follow them, will not [...]
October 15th, 2009 | Posted in Food Info, From The Cook, kitchen talk, losing weight | Comments Off
Way back in the “olden days” when somebody served shredded wheat what you got was a bowl with this humongous brick like chunk of something that looked (and tasted!) like a miniature bail of hay or straw. I remember when I had this as a kid thinking “WHY do people serve this? and WHY does [...]
June 29th, 2009 | Posted in Breakfast, Food Info, kitchen talk, Reviews, video | Comments Off
The job of cutting onions has always been associated with red teary eyes. Depending on how strong the onion is and how they’re being cut it can actually get so bad that you can’t even hardly see what you’re doing because the tears are flowing so freely. Add to that you’re eyes are burning and [...]
June 11th, 2009 | Posted in Food Info, Food Prep, From The Cook, Odds & Ends, Quick Tips, vegetarian | Comments Off