by Kevin Burton Pretty sure I have mentioned on Page 7 that I don’t do New Year’s resolutions. Here’s a possible clarification for 2024. What I should have said is I don’t get close to the new calendar year and make a resolution, just to have one. There is one that occurs …
Category Archives: food and cooking
Taking The Shake Out Of Shake ‘n Bake
by Kevin Burton I am not definitively saying that Wal-Mart, distributor of Vibrant Life cat litter, is squeezing customers financially. I didn’t do the documentation. You see, my boyhood pastime of reading the back of cereal boxes did not linger into adulthood and cause me to read for information, such things as cat …
The Story Of Pringles From Cradle To Grave
by Kevin Burton Without this great big clue you would never guess this, or even think of it. With the clue you surely won’t miss. Guess where and how the ashes of the late Fredrick Baur, inventor of Pringles, are buried? Yep, in a Pringles can. Ah but ain’t that America? …
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Breakfast With Jesus, Can You Imagine?
by Kevin Burton Last Sunday on Page 7 we talked about breakfast. Today, even better food for thought. Did you know, there’s a new day coming? I mean a totally new day. A capitalized New Day kind of new day. Think about it, breakfast with Jesus! In John 21:12, Jesus issues …
World Record Pepper Brings Serious Heat
by Kevin Burton We’ve got a hot story for you today. Record hot. It’s also news I can use, but I’m not going to. The BBC reports that the Guiness Book of World Records has certified Pepper X as the hottest chili pepper in the world. It has surpassed the Carolina Reaper …
Gotta Love Breakfast To The Moon And Back
by Kevin Burton What’s for breakfast? Good question. Fun question. Breakfast means morning and morning means a new day. A new start. A little surge of hope. And breakfast means fuel for the journey. So, what’s for breakfast? The topic takes me back to Saturday mornings in the days of Cap’n …
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Café Owner To Pay Fine For Discrimination
by Lisa Steacy CTV News The owner of a B.C. café has been ordered to pay a woman, who is legally blind, $12,000 in compensation for discrimination after she was refused service because she had a guide dog. The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled on the case last week and the decision was …
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Noisy Cauliflower, A Growing Concern?
by Kevin Burton Certain food just calls out my name. Pizza comes to mind. Know what I mean? And it doesn’t have to shout either. I am listening for its call on Friday nights, really most nights. I haven’t heard too much from cauliflower though. But last week I learned I should …
Chocolate And More Words From The Aztecs
by Kevin Burton If you have an appetite for words and/or dinner and dessert, you’re in the right place. One of the recent Words at Play columns from Merriam-Webster featured words from the Aztecs, who lived in central Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest. The language they spoke (and about …
Hope You Relish This Juicy Hot Dog News
by Kevin Burton Some things need a day to call attention to themselves, some things don’t. For instance, today is national Stick Out Your Tongue Day. If for some twisted reason you wanted to draw attention to that, you need to declare a day. The humble, but simultaneously mighty hot dog however, …
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