Reviews, Etc. Posts
Don’t Dilute Your Drink! Use Whiskey Stones Instead!
Wow. OK. It’s late in the evening after a long day, so this may be me being impressed with something overly simplistic. But…this seems like a really neat idea—especially if you’re a cocktail connoisseur. Ladies and gentleman, I present to you: Whiskey Stones! I saw these on Daily Candy today, and thought they were too [...]
Feasting on Cupcakes: A Photo Tour of Lyndell’s Bakery
One of my favorite things in the world is to get up early on a Saturday morning and go cupcake shopping. (I mean, what better way to start a day?) This means heading to Lyndell’s Bakery in Somerville’s Ball Square. Established in 1887, Lyndell’s is one of the oldest bakeries in New England—and one of [...]
Tea Tasting, Part I
One of my fondest—and most vivid—childhood memories is going to the tobacco shop with my father, who smoked a pipe.* Bear with me, I’ll get to the tea in a sec. Pipe-shop adventures Now, Dad has long since quit smoking and tobacco shops are getting harder and harder to find. When you do happen upon [...]
Beauty and the Feast, Part I
Welcome to Beauty and the Feast, a series of food-based skincare reviews. Let me tell you a little secret. For all my video game playing, comic book reading, and UFC watching, I’m secretly a girl-y girl at heart—and a bona fide beauty product junkie. From my daily diet of drugstore brands to the occasional, obnoxious [...]
A New Santoku Knife, in Pink for the Cure
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month. While there’s no breast cancer in my family, it affects hundreds of thousands of people each year. Now, I’m not really one to get up on a pulpit. But I’ve known several people who have been affected directly or indirectly, so every October, I try to do my [...]
Cheese Tasting, Part 1: Blue Cheese
Ah, cheese. Where to begin. It has to be one of my favorite things in the world. I love creamy cheese and stinky cheese and cheese that comes wrapped in leaves. I love cheese in things and on things and on its own. I even once made fudge with cheese. (I admit, that was more [...]
Chocolate Tasting, Part 1
With Halloween approaching, the Angry Chef and I have candy on the brain. Consider this the first article in a series of chocolate tastings. We spotted these at Whole Foods and couldn’t resist picking them up. If you’re familiar their mind-bogglingly vast chocolate bar selection, you know we’re lucky we walked away with just two. [...]
Traders Point Creamery Yogurt
Yum. I can’t say it enough. This yogurt is great. It’s lusciously creamy. It’s tangy. It tastes like you bought it at a farm stand. It’s got an awesome cow on the label and comes in a thick, old-fashioned glass bottle. (Hey, I’m a sucker for good packaging.) Made by family-owned Traders Point Creamery in [...]
Bento Happiness
After putting it off and shopping around for what seems like ages, I finally got my first official bento box the other night. The Angry Chef and I were tooling around Cambridge before dinner and stopped by Tokai Japanese Gifts in the Porter Exchange building on Mass. Ave. Tokai is stuffed with a fantastic assortment [...]
Big Top Marshmallow Cookies
The Lady Otter and I were cruising through Whole Foods last night, on a mission to pick up some flowers for the host of the cocktail party we were attending. It was supposed to be a “quick in and out” trip, as we were already running a tiny bit late. It never quite works like [...]
