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Shortly after arriving in Seattle in 2007, I broke down and bought a good coffee grinder. After years of thinking my old grinder was good enough to grind fine and consistent for espresso, I spent the...
Read more →Most best-of lists for a given year are published in late December or early January. Not this one. I needed more time to finish reading the books that were published at the end of the year. Here are...
Read more →After reading the latest book by Robert Greene, a small part spoke to me as the most important lesson that I can personally put into effect immediately. !Mastery Mastery by Robert Greene Before I go...
Read more →Even though I am always checking out cookbooks from the library, the majority of ideas I get for cooking come from doing web searches. I get an idea, do a search and find a recipe. But I rarely just...
Read more →Now that I've conquered the Gyro Meatloaf, my number cooking priority is getting much better with Indian cooking. To date it has been the most challenging cuisine to cook. I love the Indian food that...
Read more →This is for all you cereal eaters that don't have the time and energy to make eggs in the morning. Make a tray or two of these crust-less quiches in the evening. Place them in the refrigerator and...
Read more →After Obama nominated a tax cheat to run the United States Treasury, who could have imagined that we'd get a more ironic nomination. The new Surgeon General is Regina Benjamin and her prime health...
Read more →This book set a record for the longest I have ever had to wait for an on-hold item at the Seattle Library. Was the 4.5 months wait worth it? !Hungry Monkey: A Food-Loving Father's Quest to Raise an...
Read more →Besides riding elephants and playing with big cats, the other cool thing I did in Chiang Mai was take an all day Thai cooking class. I've been cooking Thai food pretty much every week for the past 18...
Read more →I made another dish where the goal was vegetable variety. !stir-fry 1. garlic \ 2. red onion 3. red pepper 4. green chili pepper 5. yellow pepper 6. kale, both steam and leaf \ 7. green beans...
Read more →Recently, I was reading about how the body treats oxidized cholesterol differently from regular cholesterol. The oxidized stuff is what you want to minimize. US News and World Reports put out...
Read more →I love sushi, but I am not a fan of sushi restaurants. They tend to be expensive and slow. And if they aren't expensive, the word gets out and lines start forming. Sushi Deli in San Diego is...
Read more →This week T-Nation released a great article titled My 8 "Ah-Ha!" Moments by Chris Shugart. In fitness you consume data, try and test ideas, filter out the noise, make progress, have plateaus and...
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