You must read this great article written by Sara Fuss of Shine Yahoo, entitled “The rarifed world of Modernist Cuisine“. Click on the article (link below) to read a very good description of the book set, then be sure to click on each of the photos shown above the article to read the detailed culinary…
Shopping at your local Farmer’s Market
Shopping for quality fresh food items can sometimes be hit or miss at a grocery store depending on how long items have been on a store shelf and where the item originally came from. I’ve had the misfortune of occasionally buying what looks like fresh packed produce only to find it spoiled or rotten within…
Folsom’s New Beer Garden and Grill
Last night the misses and I went out to visit Folsom’s newest gastropub, The Beer Garden and Grill at 6608 Folsom-Auburn Rd. Folsom, CA 95630 (no website yet). They opened a week ago and have so far received some fairly good reviews from locals. Folsom could use another pub being that our two favorites…
The Game-Changing Cookbook
Nathan Myhrvold’s 2,400-page ‘Modernist Cuisine’ upends everything you thought you knew about cooking Here’s the recipe for the most astonishing cookbook of our time: Take one multimillionaire computer genius, a team of 36 researchers, chefs and editors and a laboratory specially built for cooking experiments. After nearly four years of obsessive research, assemble 2,400 pages…
Tower Bridge Bistro – Sacramento
Dining at the Tower Bridge Bistro was literally, one of the best restaurant experiences we’ve had in Sacramento. My wife and I really enjoy dining out and it’s not often we find a place like Tower Bridge Bistro that has all the best qualities and attributes of a great restaurant working together so very well. …
Visiting Tower Bridge Bistro in Sacramento
It is with great anticipation that we will soon be visiting the Tower Bridge Bistro restaurant in downtown Sacramento (tomorrow). A good friend of ours, Clay Purcell is the executive chef, and based on the many good things we’ve heard about this restaurant, he has apparently done a fine job of building up a very…
Seeing the Space Shuttle, Coco Beach FL
This is an actual photo that I took of the Space Shuttle about 18 years ago. I was asked to go to NASA Cape Canaveral in Coco Beach Florida to work on some network troubleshooting and repairs and I ended up working onsite in the VAB (Vehicle Assembly Building) where I got to see the…
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