Pigging out

Pie Making Comeback

Jim Jocifero
Still Life with Pie, Silver Ewer and Crab by Willem Claeszoon Heda (1658).

While you can’t “have your cake and eat it too,” you can “have your piece of the pie” if you walk into almost any bakery or grocery. In fact, pie is making a comeback, as many people now see cake as a thing of the past, a boring, leftover, stale remnant of the latter half […]

Postage Stamp Gardening

Vim Vocifero

  How Much Can You Really Grow?   Now that spring has finally arrived in the Northern Hemisphere, your thoughts, if you reside in said hemisphere, have, no doubt, turned to the outdoors, and to outdoor activities. And ranking high in popularity among outdoor activities—higher, perhaps, than even such fashionable activities as outdoor doughnut eating, […]

Eating For Two Now Cheaper Than Eating For One

Jim Jocifero
Public domain image by linan0827. Available at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MaLaTang.JPG#mediaviewer/File:MaLaTang.JPG.

In a marketing campaign to expand its customer base well into the future, a chain of Chinese restaurants in the northwestern United States, called Sichuan of North, is now offering a large discount to pregnant customers. Women with child receive fifty percent off their check, and that includes the all-you-can-eat lunch and dinner buffets. Restaurant […]