The Blork Blog

I‘m thinking I might have to finally admit that summer is almost over.

Twitter memes are catching on like crazy. People love to do things like “Follow Friday,” where on Fridays you start following new people and you tweet about it. (Note: please don’t follow me just because it’s Friday. Follow me because you can’t bear to go another day without reading my random brain farts.)
I’m thinking we [...]

Chef Nick was going through some furious turkey experiments recently, and part of the exercise was to try out Hasselback potatoes. I’d never heard of such things, but they sounded pretty interesting, and his link back to Seasalt with Food, where he got the recipe, had me salivating.
Hasselback potatoes are apparently a widely known and [...]

Mountain Equipment Co-op (MEC), the venerable Canadian mountaineering and outdoorsy retail cooperative that I’ve been a member of for almost 25 years, keeps making mistakes. The mistakes are in where they decide to put their retail stores — at least when it comes to Montreal.
The first Montreal area MEC store opened in 2003, way up [...]

I‘ve been drinking a lot more Pinot Noir lately. That’s because the movie Sideways is far enough in the past (five years) that its effect on the fickle tastes of the wine-buying public is finally moot.
I know what you’re thinking — the main effect of the movie was to cast the Merlot varietal in a [...]