Puzzlepieces – tag ‘food’

Page 17 features an article about Cook, Eat, and Run. Basically, during your lunch break, you visit their kitchen, learn how to cook a meal, and eat it, all in around an hour. I believe we can design solutions that are parsimonous, win-win-win, etc., and I think this is a great one. It accomplishes:

• people get out and have a real break for lunch
• people are eating fresh food
• people learn how to cook new things. nobody knows how to cook anything any more, and this is a big problem.
• the hosting company makes money
• you get to meet new people, and shared participation is the best way to really meet people properly, in my opinion.

In other words, brilliant. I believe there is room for a whole host of other similar ideas, such as perhaps workplaces hiring a chef once a week to organize everyone into making lunch in the company’s kitchen, for instance.

And people call me crazy when they see me slicing meat and vegetables at my desk. But nobody questions how great my sandwiches are

PHD Comics: Seminar Appeal - heh so true. I’m glad a friend got me on to PHD last year.

On a related topic, I had a hard time deciding where to blog this. I used to use my own blog for everything, but for the last while I use notes on Facebook for things that are more pertinent to my friends than to everyone else. This one is tricky though, as now none of my friends will see this, since few subscribe to my general blog…

I’ve been a happy user of several Banana Guards since I got some twoish years ago, although apparently they have a new version out. Via Digg yesterday I see that there’s another contender, Banana Bunker. My first thought was that such a product would violate Banana Guard’s patent (which I have not read), but then realized that it works in a somewhat different manner. Still… to me it just doesn’t look like it would be as effective. Now who wants to do some comparative testing?

‘Farm market’ opening this week

Student enthusiasts have teamed up with Food Services to create the UW Farm Market, which will open for the first time this Wednesday, selling local produce as well as other products from the area, brought in mainly from the Elmira Produce Auction Cooperative.

excellent

I’m trying not to buy food (both because I’ve spent a lot lately, and since I’m leaving San Francisco I don’t want more food than I can eat), but I ended up getting some sushi anyway. Since it was so late in the day I got the last that that vendor had; eight pieces of something (started with ‘f’), for just $3.00. Not bad.

17-Apr-05 16:22:33

Me, about to enjoy my sandwhiches while watching an episode of Yes, Prime Minister.

13-Apr-05 13:36:35