Sunday December 2, 2001
Scientists are isolating and studying the elements of garlic which is good for fixing everything from a bad stomach to people who stand too close. How about some garlic cookies for you or your dog? Also interesting, garlic soup, Roasted Garlic and Parmesan Popovers, Garlic Ice Cream, and spicy garlic guacamole. Some folks, like the Garlic Goddess, specialize in garlic but there's other collections like Vermont Garlic recipes and, of course, out in Gilroy, CA they have all kinds of garlic recipes.

Me, I prefer to toss a few dozen finely diced garlic cloves into the hot tub along with fresh bruised sage, a dash of rosemary, and some extra virgin olive oil for smooth, supple skin.



This is a pretty cool and unusual use of quicktime, .movTV. It seemed to work best on my Mac, kind of messy and broken on win2k.

Dairy trivia for the morning from this NY Times article (reg rqrd): California is the nation's largest dairy state and is expected to be the largest cheese producer by 2005. The article covers some of the state's artisan cheesemakers.

If cheese ain't your kind of thing, maybe a fully automatic espresso machine from www.wholelattelove.com will help you keep your edge? They also feature fancy flash tours of the machines. If you're going to drop a grand or two on the latest in italian coffee plumbing then it's only logical to roast your own beans.