We went to the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck this past Sunday for Maple Weekend. It was wonderful. We got to stand in the evaporator and take in the maple scented air. We sampled fresh maple syrup right out of the evaporator. We took a walk through the grounds to see the tapped trees, and […]
Salt. You can’t escape it. It’s in almost everything we eat. And it’s also a necessary part of our body’s chemical processes, particularly hydration. You could say we have a love/hate relationship with the mighty salt crystal. On the whole, we need a minimum of 500 mg per day to be healthy. 2300 mg […]
We use our kitchen counters for holding everything. And that goes well beyond the food we eat. From tools to work gloves, to mail to the latest novel we’re reading. And we don’t clean those counters often enough - do we? Nope. I’ll bet big money on that too.
The problem is we also […]
Do you have biology experiments going on in the back of your refrigerator? You open a jar of who knows-what, because you don’t remember what it was, and you find an amazing assortment of colors and textures that simply don’t fall under what we would normally call food anymore - and could possibly send you […]