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Animals, Daily Bread, Drink, Faraway Places

Daily Bread for 5.27.23: Would You Try Mongolian Fermented Horse Milk?

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/27/2023 • Comments

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…

Agriculture, Daily Bread, Drink, State Government

Daily Bread for 12.27.22: Frederick Prehn finally resigns from Natural Resources Board

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/27/2022 • Comments

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/30/2022 • Comments

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/20/2022 • Comments

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 02/05/2017 • Comments

I’m not a Bud drinker, but this is a fine commercial from Budweiser: This is the story of our founder and his pursuit of the American Dream. #ThisBudsForYou pic.twitter.com/TuJO7NSEWs — Budweiser (@Budweiser) January 31, 2017

Drink, Food, Regulations

The Kombucha Freedom Warrior

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/09/2016 • Comments

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/22/2016 • Comments

Drink, Marketing, Poll

Friday Poll: A New (Temporary) Name for Budweiser?

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/13/2016

Will Labeling Budweiser as ‘America’ Help Sales? One reads that for the next several months, Budweiser beer cans will be labeled not with Budweiser, but with America. See, Budweiser has a new name, and that name is America @ CNBC:

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Drink: Brodo

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/05/2016

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/18/2015 • 3 Comments

Eggnog? Embed from Getty Images If one’s been around a bit, one has the opportunity for annual posts or polls, including this one: an eggnog poll. So, a simple question: eggnog, yes or no? Here’s a link to an eggnog recipe that I’ll try this Christmas – 1958: Eggnog @ New York Times Cooking.

Drink, Food, Restaurant, Review

How Many Visits for a Restaurant Review?

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/27/2015 • 3 Comments

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

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/16/2015 • Comments

The United States of Beer from Drew Christie on Vimeo.

Drink, Food

Bottled Seltzer

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/16/2015 • Comments

Drink, Food, Restaurant, Review

Restaurant Review: 841 Brew House

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/30/2015 • 3 Comments

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. …