Lifestyle Makeover, Part 2: What Goes In

While my wife is at home for several weeks recovering from abdominal surgery, we’re making some overdue upgrades to our house and our lifestyles. In this series of posts I’m sharing these changes with my readers. Two weeks after her surgery, my wife surprised me by uttering a phrase I never thought I’d hear from …

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(Wasted) Food for Thought

This weekend I cleaned out my refrigerator. It wasn’t a pretty sight. I’ll spare you the details (and the images) but let’s just say a lot of stuff went directly into the compost bin. So while it was no longer fit for consumption (or possibly so) at least it isn’t going into the landfill. Yet …

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Quickie Chocolate Review: Theo Congo Vanilla Nib Bar

Where I got it: Whole Foods Price: $3.99 for 3 oz. (84g) Cocoa percentage: 65% Website: www.theochocolate.com I was assisted in this review by my daughter Rachel, who works at Zingerman's and is thus surrounded by high-quality chocolate from all over the globe, is trained to sell it, and gets to sample it frequently. I, on …

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