Allow me to be brief. Annie Chun’s just-add-water soup: http://www.anniechun.com/our-food/soup-bowls is nasty. It’s real nasty.
Archive for the ‘Food & Beverage’ Category
Review – Annie Chun’s Soup
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010Product Review – Stash Tea (Green Chai)
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010I’m a supporter of loose-leaf teas from fancy outfits, not just because they sell a fine product, but I really enjoy the old-timey experience of measuring out loose tea. People were keeping tins of loose tea long before any of us were born… and for some reason, fighting with the lids, botching the measuring, and spilling loose tea on the counter makes me feel a little more connected with the whole human race. (I’m actually really serious, and urge everyone to give it a try. It’s like a visit to a living history museum, right in your own kitchen.) But, we don’t always have the luxury or the time to prepare loose-leaf teas to accompany us to the office, on the trail, or in the car.
Review – Bread & Chocolate (Theo’s)
Monday, January 18th, 2010I read a compelling theory by someone who was surely as hippified as myself, that since chocolate is a luxury, we should be willing to pay the higher prices of fair-trade chocolate because, if it’s not a necessity, how can a person justify buying from a company that exploits fellow humans? (Actually, having said that, I’m not sure even necessity purchases should be considered okay if you know the company doing the selling engages in cruel practices.) Well, because I’m not here to preach about cruelty (I’ll leave that to http://www.clrlabor.org/alerts/2005/oct10-nestle.htm), allow me to review Seattle chocolate company Theo.
Review – Adagio Tea (online shop)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010Stay a hard-core coffee junkie long enough and you’ll eventually want to explore the wide world of gourmet teas. Either you’ll burn out on coffee physically (some poor souls develop stomach trouble from too much caffiene), become the bug-eyed jittery type of coffee drinker who’s forced to switch to tea’s lower-caffiene-load, or, if you’re luckiest of all (like me!), someone will give you a hefty gift certificate for one of the internet’s finest online tea shops. And once you’re hooked, you’re hooked. Unlike coffee (which, let’s face it comes in three basic choices: dark, light, flavored), tea comes in more: black, green, white, red, spiced, flavored, and herbal. There’s more than that (and of coffee too), but those are the main categories. And, yes, ’spiced’ and ‘flavored’ are not the same thing.