Tag: food
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Migas from another mother
I have been trying to figure out fatteh. Here are some recent attempts. I still don’t know if I actually like this dish, but it is super fun to make. It’s sort of – and pardon any cultural offense here, I don’t even know what the aesthetic-mores of this food culture are – like Lebanese…
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An air fryer means fresh croutons in ten minutes.
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If your deal is nostalgia for another time (imagined on real), your customers are likely conservative regarding modernizing. They want things to stay the same, the job to be done, brand wise, is a nostalgia experience. Hopefully the food has good price/performance too. // Cracker Barrel halts remodels after logo backlash, lackluster test
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Fatteh for Brunch, Cook’s Illustrated –
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The buyer of the $6.2 million banana art piece eats it – “To be honest, for a banana with such a back story, the taste is naturally different from an ordinary one.”
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California Becomes the First State to Ban Sell-By Dates on Food Labels – I think we all knew these were bullshit. // “Sell-by dates are a slightly ironic, and unnecessary, cause of food waste, because they’re not intended to ever be used by consumers. Instead, these dates are meant to indicate to store employees when…
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Good strategy
Re: “Bad” Strategy Strategy is people, and in a corporate setting, all the wonky parts of people are amplified. In the places I’ve worked, the lower down you go in the organization, the less relevant strategy is. What’s relevant is the actions you can take, not the outcomes the executes are going for with their…
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American Christmas, part 3
American Christmas, part 3 Kids out and about in their pajamas. “Help me remember that our full size mini-van is hidden behind this Suburban.” Adults out and about in their pajamas. “Here’s the check. No rush, though!” Massive, high capacity washing machines that would fit a calf. The cheap wine is still expensive. Free electricity…
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American Christmas
Only In American Still warm tortillas. Adults wearing joke t-shirts. Yoga pants. Free packets of ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. Ice with every drink. 75 mph. Stern TSA. Little plastic shopping bags. No GDPR pop-ups. 20% tips before checkout. Donuts. Right turn on red. Ice machine in fridge. Very big bowls. Eggs in the fridge California…
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Here’s Something Past Its Expiration Date: the Expiration Date Itself – “Food experts broadly agree that the expiration dates on every box of crackers, can of beans and bag of apples waste money, squander perfectly good food, needlessly clog landfills, spew methane and contribute to climate change.” // And, they’re gone for the most part…
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“cut off like sausages”: “the wasteland of images that surround us”
App Stories I’m working on a new idea for a project – a series of interview and case studies about applications inside, you know, large organizations – my ongoing interest. These are my favorite types of stories: why an application was needed, how people came up with what to do, how they wrote the app,…
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Jalapeños are pickled, but pickles aren’t jalapeños
Confusion Over Pickles Burger King in Antwerp, Nov 14th, 2018. In Ghent, for a quick dinner, I went to Burger King. I ordered a burger – the “steakhouse” or something, which was a mistake because as Texan, I can’t stand sweet BBQ sauce, but it was fine. When I went to the counter to pick…
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Getting comfortable talking with people because of oysters, tipping and toilets, beach puddles
Family Trip All the family vacationing is done. With three kids, and one a two and half year old, the principal that a “vacation” is much different than a “family trip” is certainly true. On a family trip, you must take advantage of the ad hoc vacation as it presents itself. Kim and I found…
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Business travel advice, podcast reboot, too much scenario-squid thinking
PROMO! My company’s big conference is coming up soon, VMware Explore (the new name of VMworld). Thinking of my own plans: I HAVE A LOT GOING ON. Anyhow, it will be fun. You should check out the catalog and register to come. Here’s one of my goofy ads, er, “videos”: twitter.com/VMwareExp… Notebook “It takes a…
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🗂 Link: Uitsmijter
In the south of Holland, where I grew up, uitsmijters would be served as the last “one for the road before we get thrown out” meal after a night of partying. Groups of friends would usually end up at someone’s house late at night (or early in the morning) after the bars closed to wrap…
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