Chocolate

March 30th, 2008 No Comments

On the way back from the Mountain West Ruby Conference we dropped by xocolate in Salt Lake. They have a mole chocolate made with something that will set your mouth on fire. I bought a half a pound of chocolate and a half pound of peppermint bark. That stuff will be the [...]

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Vinegar and Jello

February 11th, 2008 1 Comment

My wife hates it but I love the history channel. Tonight I am learning how they make gelatin. Gross does not even begin to describe the process that starts with 40,000 lbs of cow bones and hydrochloric acid. I can better handle the vinegar process. It starts with 195 proof corn [...]

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Lunch Provided by the Farmer’s Market

August 11th, 2007 3 Comments

Every Saturday in Logan and I am sure in towns all across the country there is a small market where locals can sell their wares. We are slow an Saturdays so we rarely make it before the market closes at noon. Today however, we finally made it (11:30). Smaller markets filled with [...]

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Bad Food

May 19th, 2007 1 Comment

I have eaten a lot of bad food over the past few days which is too bad given that Portland has good restaurants. The main source of bad food is the Rails conference.
A WORD TO CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Stale pastry and coffee do not count as breakfast.
Lunch is not much better.
It is so bad that we [...]

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