It’s a mixed bag today. Jujubees, peanuts, and that weird orange dried fruit you always leave until the end. I managed to shatter two baking stones while making bread this weekend. Evidently super-heated iron skillet plus cheap baking stone…
It’s a mixed bag today. Jujubees, peanuts, and that weird orange dried fruit you always leave until the end. I managed to shatter two baking stones while making bread this weekend. Evidently super-heated iron skillet plus cheap baking stone…
The future is as exhilarating as I thought it would be, though I am not wearing a silver unitard. Yet. My wife found a great deal on a Roomba online, and it arrived a week or so ago. A…
In case you are ever worried about your safety aboard an aircraft, take a listen to the exchange between LaGuardia Tower Air Traffic Control, Teterboro Tower, and Captain Sullenberger of US Airways Flight 1549. What you’ll notice absent is…
This Sunday, Baby Harbat (daughter), wife, our friends’ 2-year-old daughter and I all went to the zoo. First half: dozey-eyed staring at every exhibit of birds, monkeys, and sleeping pandas. Middle: lunchtime of either frightening continuous consumption (my daughter), or…
I’ve started to make bread. In the last 6 months I’ve made several types by various methods. It’s the smell…if there is such a thing. The smell of baking bread! It began with the no-knead bread recipe in Cooks…
Is one question I want answered. Preferably by someone who knows more about medicine and anatomy than me. My mother-in-law pointed out, with patience, that my stomach was not low and on my right side, but high up on the…
Here’s some real craftsmanship. Let me set the scene. December 17, 1957. There’s snow on the ground, Christmas shoppers are flowing in and out of Macy’s, Gimbal’s, and the sidewalks of Manhattan are humming. Jammed in a small booth…
Aha! Craftsmanship found! In the most unlikely of places. Let’s flash back to last December. Our Big Rain Event of 2008 left the sump in our crawlspace almost filled up with water (the sump is a 18” wide concrete…
Home ownership is something my wife and I have looked forward to for a long time. The chance to truly customize our own nest, to be lords of our very small manor. (As of now, we only have one unruly…
Already I’m making my first veer away from craftsmanship. Toonces, no! (For anyone who doesn’t know who Toonces is, shame on you! Of course, in twenty years, this will be like not knowing who the Katzenjammer Kids are today. Go…