Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 76. Sunrise is 5:21 AM and sunset 8:22 PM for 15h 01m 28s of daytime. The moon is in its first quarter with 49.2% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1930, the 1,046-foot-tall (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York…
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Agriculture, Daily Bread, Drink, State Government
Daily Bread for 12.27.22: Frederick Prehn finally resigns from Natural Resources Board
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly cloudy with a high of 26. Sunrise is 7:24 AM and sunset 4:27 PM for 9h 03m 16s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 23.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1929, Soviet General Secretary…
Bad Ideas, Daily Bread, Drink, Food
Daily Bread for 7.30.22: Velveeta Introduces ‘Cheese-Infused’ Martini
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Good morning. Saturday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 81. Sunrise is 5:45 AM and sunset 8:17 PM for 14h 32m 05s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.9% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1932, Walt Disney‘s Flowers and Trees premieres, the first cartoon short…
Daily Bread, Drink, Regulations
Daily Bread for 2.20.22: Keeping Kombucha Under the Limit
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Good morning. Sunday in Whitewater will be sunny with a high of 53. Sunrise is 6:43 AM and sunset 5:33 PM for 10h 50m 49s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 81% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1905, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the constitutionality of Massachusetts’s mandatory smallpox vaccination…
Business, Drink, Immigration
Budweiser’s Fine Commercial
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Drink, Food, Regulations
The Kombucha Freedom Warrior
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As fermented products become more common as health fads, questions about regulation are being raised. For one, kombucha is the product of fermenting tea with a culture of live yeast and bacteria. As a result, the beverage has a variable alcohol content—and some of its producers are being targeted by the federal regulators. In this…
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Origins of Pumpkin Spice Latte
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Drink, Marketing, Poll
Friday Poll: A New (Temporary) Name for Budweiser?
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Drink: Brodo
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I’ve not tried it, and I’m not sure it will catch on nationally, but it is something different — It reads like the perfect storm of food item appeal: soaking otherwise toss-able animal bones in water (sustainability: check) to create a nutrient-rich brew (paleo-friendly: check) for sale in paper to-go cups out of a window…
Drink, Food, Holiday, Poll
Friday Poll: Third Annual Eggnog Poll
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Drink, Food, Restaurant, Review
How Many Visits for a Restaurant Review?
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How many trips should a reviewer make before publishing a review? I think at least two, if not three.(Exceptions would apply when one is revisiting an establishment that one has reviewed previously, or when one is traveling and a second visit is impractical.) One can review after one evening, but a single, first-visit review just doesn’t seem…
Animation, Drink, History
Sunday Animation: The United States of Beer
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Bottled Seltzer
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Drink, Food, Restaurant, Review
Restaurant Review: 841 Brew House
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I’m beginning a new, spring and summer series of restaurant reviews. I’ll begin with something that, itself, is new: the restaurant at 841 Milwaukee Street, having opened at the beginning of the year. The 841 Brew House is a sports bar and restaurant, and differs notably and favorably from the predecessor establishment at that location. …