Scratch Food with a Side of Geek Mom and Pop Culture.
You may have caught me blabbing from time to time about hiking around the waterfalls. With over 100 of them in the area, my town, Hamilton, is sometimes called the City of Waterfalls. Undisputed waterfall capital of the world. Some of them are wee little trickles, but many of them are quite lovely! And most are…
This week celebrates my one year anniversary without a vehicle to call my own. There were a lot of factors involved in deciding to get rid of my vehicle, but the one that overrode all was cost. As my job prospects were decidedly grim, I decided to go in a new direction for employment. New…
When it comes to getting kids to eat fruits and vegetables, popular parenting says you should be like a ninja: vegetables should be a priority, and you should be fiendishly sneaky about it. Hide veggies in muffins. Puree it into tomato sauce. Smother it with cheese sauce. Why? So kids have no idea they’re eating good things. Stop…
Some people argue over the value of buying more expensive organic and pastured or free-range meat. A lot of people don’t want to pay the premium. Usually the argument is that it tastes the same, pastured/free-range is a sham, and that it just flat-out costs too much. I like to ask them what they know about the meat…
So Subway has made big changes to their bread. That’s pretty awesome. I’m HAPPY that people are finally getting upset over a food additive. I only wish that people would get upset over more of them. The worst thing that azodicarbonamide has been linked to definitively is asthma and other respiratory symptoms. Even so, that’s…
My mom called me Peter, once upon a time. If you don’t know your name meanings, it means “rock.” That’s how my family saw me. Financial troubles, boyfriend woes, problems big and small: when stuff happens, Anne keeps her head and knows what to do. Now, I don’t. I’m mired in the mud, spinning my…
Can you believe it, I’m closing in on a year of continuous blogging? Holy cow. It doesn’t feel like it’s been that long since I started. I’m rewarding myself with a break… a full-on March break vacation. I assure you it’s quite temporary, and this isn’t a notification of reassessing my life and blog as a…
When you work long enough at something, you know how to peek behind the veils of others’ machinations. It’s exactly like finding the wizard spinning the dials behind the curtain in the Emerald City of Oz. So in commercial photography, you stop seeing people’s overexposed-in-heaven food. Instead you start mentally cataloguing things like depth of…
Finding myself on this blog has been a slow evolutionary process, but I think I’m getting there. I know I didn’t bother with an end of the year post or a “resolutions” bit. I don’t believe in hard-definitions like “I’m going to lose 20 pounds” or “I’m going to give up X.” The reason why is…
This may or may not be the (occasional) face of things to come! Be nice, I’m afraid of cameras. 🙂