Went to the Metropolitan Museum of Art today to see the New Greek-Roman Galleries. Dizzyingly Awesome! You can be there all day to stare at the stuff.
July 4th news item: Kobayashi loses to Joey Chestnut, a civil engineering student from CA. They ate 60+ dogs. Watching them on the big screen tv — well, made me nauseous. I like a hot dog as much as anyone else, but competitive eating is just gross.
A NY Times article on those yummy kettle cooked potato chips – well, I do so love a chip! In the accompanying slide show, they had the Kettle Brand Chips as number one (well, weren’t they the ones who started the whole kettle cooked trend?), with the Cape Code chip and Lay’s Kettle Cooked Original (umm, yeah, I’ve been eating those too much lately… – can’t be a good sign, is it?).
NY Times has San Francisco chef Daniel Patterson talking about making butter.
Writer Neal Pollack on being a dad trying to get a hot dog for the kid – Costco was the answer, apparently, but he had to figure that out from his own dad’s advice.
Dark chocolate can be good for you! You just can’t overeat it, though.
A Slate article on the previous Transformers movie (cartoon, not live action), and the 1980s phenomenon that was The Transformers for those of us of a certain generation.