Take Our Word For It Blog

Quinoa.  Photo credit Christian Guthier The shibbolethic (is that a word?  It should be!) pronunciation of quinoa has puzzled me for so...

Allergies-does local honey help?  http://bit.ly/1nvJNjS Allergy season in the Northern Hemisphere has been upon us for some time (thou...

When we once entertained the notion of writing a short book of Ren Faire (short for Renaissance Fair e ) terms, Mommy, What's a Codpiece...

Mesclun from http://www.foodsubs.com/Greensld.html The latest blog entry is a bit late because I was traveling to, attending, and return...

Cobb Salad: http://bit.ly/1jjy9al  Cobb salad.  I love a good Cobb salad. The salad itself is relatively easy to put together — ham, e...

We had some relatively wild weather in northern California this week. Some of you may recall that I have a B.S. in meteorology (weather, not...

Ojibwa at Daily Kos wrote an article this week entitled, " Origins of English: Some Obsolete Words ."  Strangely, the author stat...