"Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York..."

"... every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves." I warned you I was going to d...

Things done in 2012.

1. Eating ribs in Muskogee. 2. Caught a lost dog. 3. ... Blog project begun. Not completed.

"Has anyone ever told you that your high-wattage passion for no-collar American food makes you television’s answer to Calvin Trillin, if Mr. Trillin bleached his hair, drove a Camaro and drank Boozy Creamsicles?"

"When you cruise around the country for your show 'Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives,' rasping out slangy odes to the unfancy places ...

"The anti-fragile is beyond the resilient or robust."

"The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the anti-fragile gets better and better." On that theory: 1. Build cities that w...

"The Internet's most ostentatiously blissful women — the curators of domesticity on Pinterest, Tumblr, and thousands of female-driven blogs..."

"... occupy a sexless aspirational world, a modern Douglas Sirk fantasy of color-saturated feminine mystique." So-called “food por...

"Court keeps alive inmate's quest for pork feast."

Headline at the National Law Journal makes the "quest" sound more absurd than it is. The prisoner, Derek Kramer, is an Odinist an...

"In America all cornbread is in the shape of corn, that's how you can tell if it's real. "

So saith Chip Ahoy , who tells a very old joke about learning numbers and gives a recipe bereft of numbers. And Chip wants me to tell you t...

"'White turkey chili': That's what President Obama served Mitt Romney for lunch."

"Was this really an intentional (ungracious, gloating, etc.) slap? I'm a paranoid — but it is the sort of thing the hard core polit...

A "concerned sister" gets press petitioning Hasbro to put boys in commercials for Easy-Bake ovens.

"The toy has long been marketed to girls and made in gender specific colors like pink and purple. The calls for Easy-Bake to take on a ...

Recycling your turkey-frying oil in Madison, Wisconsin for the greater good of America and the world.

A City of Madison news release: "We know that there are many people who have lots of oil left over after frying their Thanksgiving turk...

How to make your own Twinkies.

Chip Ahoy explains: I have a pan made for East coast style hotdog buns . It's like a flat bread with bumps in it the shape of Twinkies. ...

Extwinktion.

The end of Twinkies. What will you eat instead? Whipped cream right out of the can. Sugar, spooned from the bowl, with a side of cream. Stic...

"Since human blood has more salt than animal blood, once wild animals get the taste..."

".... of salty blood, they do not like other animals like deer."

"Orange Bowling On The Romney/Ryan Planes."

Orange bowling, a means of communication.

"[M]en don’t believe as strongly as women that fruit and vegetable consumption is an important part of maintaining health..."

According to some new study , which supposedly suggests that men are less "receptive" to "messages" that we ought to eat...

"Thomas Jefferson's Crème Brûlée..."

"... How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America." A new book , by Thomas J. Craughwell...

"Walnuts 'improve sperm health.'"

Some study reported by BBC. Oh, come on. Why did they look specifically at walnuts? Here's a clue: an old Woman's Day article titled...

Cherries & Hucks.

Today, near Hungry Horse, Montana.

McSweeney's makes a comical list of "Suggested Buzzfeed Articles."

"Elvis Presley’s 42 Sweatiest Moments... The 100 Filthiest Bathrooms in Philadelphia... 11 Retired History Professors Being Stung by Wa...

Gallery-goers eat rats at the art show "Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch."

And the NYT gives the show 2-pages of glowing description (and warnings that — ooh! — you may be disgusted). Twenty people, mostly friends...