COVID-19 Lock Down Cooking Fun: Kraft/Heinz Cookbook
Yesterday, we posted about Kraft/Heinz’s latest goofy PR stunt: Offering limited edition KD Pumpkin Spice Mac and Cheese Dinner kits to celebrate Fall. While researching that nutty story, we ran across a reference to a special K/H downloadable Essential Quarantine Cookbook…Read More →
COVID-19 Lock Down Cooking Fun: Pumpkin Pie KD!
No, that’s not a misprint. I said Pumpkin Pie Spice Kraft Dinner. And I’m still trying to figure out whether that’s something to cry about, or something to shed tears of joy over. One assumes that someone in the Kraft/Heinz Test Kitchens actually tried it before sending it to manufacturing…Read More →
COVID-19 Experience: My ONE Thing…
I’ve been posting about various aspects of the emotional stress that pandemic privations can deal us, especially at times like this when we’ve had a global setback in our war with the novel coronavirus. But I’ve come to a conclusion that a spoonful of Sugar can, indeed, help the medicine go down…Read More →
COVID-19 Experience: Mood Control Aids Hyped
Have you noticed the relative abundance of news and lifestyle articles lately about the emotional effects on us all of the continuing (and re-surging) COVID-19 pandemic crisis? As you might expect, opportunists are taking advantage of warnings that the pandemic is making us more depressive and edgy…Read More →
COVID-19: Welcome To ‘TWIN-VID’ Season…
Sorry for the sarcasm in that headline. The situation is nothing to joke about. But it bears affirmation that we’re officially into the start of the the next phase of the COVID-19 crisis: Phase 2 of COVID on top of our usual fall Flu season. A lot of folks are already full of fear and loathing about how to deal with it…Read More →
Sunday Musings: Why The Current Focus On Booze?
I regularly scan the learned journals for food-, diet-, and nutrition-related articles which might help shed light on where we stand in our collective quest for longer, healthier, happier lives. Lately, I’ve noticed a heavy emphasis on new research about the effects of Alcohol on health. Why?Read More →