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Just as fettuccine alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults, so is Ravel's Bolero Pachebel's Canon in D for those inclined toward twentieth century music.

Therefore, I really have to question if Bolero really is the result of "a torrent of creativity" as this article on a rare brain disease suggests.

Labels: food, music, Ravel

A "Pizza and Pipes" restaurant in Tacoma that was destroyed by fire may be rebuilt.

Elsewhere: Don't miss this great review of such a restaurant.

I just realized that this does combine two of my favorite things: organs and food. Why is it that I've never been to one of these places?

Labels: food, organs

A happy Mothering Sunday to all with Simnel cakes aplenty.

Labels: Anglicanism, Feasts, food

Here's a culinary tip from the New York Times for employees of Lake Delaware Boys' Camp in Delhi, New York:

It's Heaven, a bakery and café in Bovina Center (yes -- named after cows), just about 10 minutes from camp.

Oh, and the owners are one of those worldly model/photographer couples.

Fashion’s Just a Job; Baking’s a Destiny

Yeah, I'm bringing the animated .gif back. They're totally in style this season. You know you like it.

Labels: food, LDBC

This interesting dessert conconction derives its name not from the city of Boston, Massachusetts, but rather from Detroit, Michigan. More specifically, Boston Blvd in Detroit.

I saw one at a trendy restaurant yesterday for $$$.

I plan on making one myself for ¢¢¢.

Labels: food

I have a Gmail email address, and I'm really happy with it. Gmail has, from what I can tell, far and away the best web-based spam filtering.

Heck, I'll even go so far as to say that Gmail provides the best spam filtering, period. The one I use at my place of employment is far from perfect and has its share of false positives. This can be very annoying as one doesn't want to look in one's spam folder for important information.

But back to Gmail. It does a great job catching spam. It's very rare that anything gets through (especially lately). And it's not like the amount of spam sent to me is trivial. At the moment it's around 1500 pieces in the last 30 days. (I've seen this number climb over 2500 in a 30 day period.) And I've never Gmail pick up any false positive. Not even big "opt-in" corporate emails. Everything seems to go where it's supposed to.

So it must of been a pretty serious case of boredom that led me to look at my Gmail spam earlier this week. But the spam wasn't what caught my eye.

Gmail does offer discreet text advertisements based on the content of your email. And what, you ask, does it offer when presented with a folder full of spam?

More spam.

Savory Spam Crecents

Mmm.

Labels: food, web

At the co-op recently, I noticed a bag of granola that was on the "drastically reduced" shelf. Sometimes you can find some really good deals over there. You know the one I'm talking about.

And so, I bought it, but it wasn't until I got it home that I realized the original price for this one pound bag of granola was over six dollars! That's a lot of money!

Well, then I started to eat the granola, and it was incredible. Lots of good stuff. Plenty of pecans, got some walnuts in there, a banana chip or two, what's that, a dried kiwi?

And those big raisins? Yeah. They're dried cherries.

Now, I would never say that I didn't ever not appreciate this incredible granola, because I did. It's just that I figured out that I ate a lot of the really good stuff all in one go. For you see, the contents -- especially the smaller contents -- settle during shipping. It would have been nice to share the wealth maybe.

I thought I was sticking it to the man by purchasing his granola at an 80% discount, but it turns out he had the last laugh after all.

Let this be a lesson to all of us: shake your expensive granola.

Labels: food