Feb 28 2010
This morning, Martine found the following sentence in a recent Vanity Fair magazine article: “The couple still fly separately.”
There are two problems with that sentence; first, “the couple” is a singular object, so the verb should be “flies” not “fly” (Bob flies, Bob and Fred fly). So the immediate reaction is to change the line [...]
Feb 16 2010
A quick update to my “New Classic” pizza post from last week: I’ve added the video showing me flipping the dough. Go there now!
Feb 11 2010
A week ago Tuesday, I popped over to CTVmontreal.ca and happened upon a story about the Montreal Metro. Blah blah blah, whatever, and then I noticed the thumbnail image at the top of the story. Not a huge picture, just a stock image that they use for Metro stories when they have no story-specific images. [...]
Feb 07 2010
Yes, I hate the term “new classic” too, but what the heck. This pizza is destined to become a classic, chez nous.
It is composed of (in order, from bottom to top):
Standard Blork San Marzano pizza sauce
A dusting of dried oregano
A respectable portion of conventional grated full-fat mozzarella cheese
Baby spinach sautéed with a clove of garlic
Crimini [...]
Feb 04 2010
Quick quiz: what is a “Samaritan?”
If you answered “a person who selflessly does a good deed,” you are wrong. A Samaritan is simply a person from Samaria, a mountainous region of the Holy Land between Judea and Galilee — more or less what we now call the West Bank of Israel. The ancient Samaritans [...]
