by Brian | Sep 23, 2014 | Dessert Digest
Yesterday’s post for a Fresh Fruit Galette suggesting pairing your galette slice with ice cream. Buttermilk ice cream. Yes, that yellow object in the left of the picture is a very-hard-to-photograph portion of very-very-yellow buttermilk ice cream....
by Brian | Aug 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
From your advanced calculus course, you may remember the definition of a fixed point for a mathematical function f: An attractive fixed point of a function f is a fixed point x0 of f such that for any value of x in the domain that is close enough to x0, the...
by Brian | Jul 8, 2014 | Recipes
If you are a fan of the Wednesday New York Times Food Section, as I am, then you recognize that picture above. Red hair, strong nose, wide eyes, and studied intent. Melissa Clark is my favorite Times writer. When I pick up the Wednesday paper, I scan first for her....
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by Brian | Mar 25, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
This post is not about hamburger. Or roast beef. Or ribs. Or milk. Let me explain explain. What’s in a name? Once upon a time, a “Brown Cow” was vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup and Coca-Cola. Quickly, the Pepsi people responded. And then there were Brown...
by Brian | May 8, 2012 | News, Recipes
Suzi and I pride ourselves on finding great cookbooks and giving you an early alert of a new gem ready for you to enjoy. Yesterday the James Beard Foundation announced its 2011 cookbook awards. Two of the awards went to books we’ve already blogged here,...
