Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
When my doctor’s office called me back a couple weeks following a routine physical, I had a sick feeling of dread. “Irregular pap,” the doctor’s assistant said. Cervical cancer!? My mind panicked. But my mouth, fortunately, knew what to say. “What happens now?”
My friend, Olga, has guest posted here before. She’s expressed an interest in contributing more frequently, and so I’m happy to introduce her as a regular guest blogger here on FoodRetro! –Anne Since you’ll be seeing more of me on FoodRetro, I thought I’d introduce myself properly. My name is Olga. If you’re interested in reading…
People like to quote Oppenheimer when they talk about science that has forever altered the world. “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” did inspire decades of science fiction dystopia, I suppose, and the atomic bomb did fundamentally change the nature of how warfare was waged. Physics did have its time in the sun as…
The vitamin supplement industry has been a little under fire recently, with many hopping the bandwagon that in North America, with all the food advantages that we have plus a little “outdoor time” thrown in, they’re not required. All well and good, except for one thing: I’m not sure that all children in North America are getting…
Do you suppose it’s ironic that I was going to go see an exhibit on the brain at the Ontario Science Centre, and ended up a near basket case on the drive there after I spent 25 minutes rolling my car down the Gardiner “EXPRESS” (LOLOLOL) way at 5km/hr? They should preserve the brains of…
Because my brain sometimes comes up with weird associations, as I sit here, writing about Things I Read, for some reason I have the Masterpiece Theatre theme song playing in the back of my head. And then I free-flow to how Sesame Street used to have a parody spoof, with Cookie Monster, which got all…
Hey readers, I’m getting all worked up prepping for conference going in a couple weeks, and that involves helping a couple people get their websites ready to go for the occasion! So I’ve got a few friends who’ve volunteered to cover for me. One is Olga Mecking, my friend across the pond. She’s been here…
I’ve only recently started to come around to embracing the idea of using un-enameled cast iron. The biggest obstacle in my acceptance, like for many people, was the question of care. How do you take care of this strange beast, which can never be washed in a dishwasher, or with soap? And–oh em gee–what if you…
Readers of mine, you know science is dear to my heart, and getting girls being interested in the hard sciences is something that I’m passionate about. Let me tell you up front I got no compensation for this post (excepting the participation in the giveaway); I just wanted to get the word out for a…
When I posted about my failed grapefruit jelly experiment back in February, I made a joking comment about how difficult the white grapefruit that I love so much is so hard to find and said, “if anyone from Hale Groves is reading this… HMO, yo. I will work for white grapefruit.” It turns out that…