Are Your Leftovers Making You Sick

by Kevin Burton    I hate wasting food, and I’ve been known to stretch the plausible life of leftovers into a danger zone.     I famously told my then girlfriend Jeannette that there was middle-aged food in my fridge that I would eat, but not serve to her.    That was the place where chivalry …

Brewing A Big Pot Of Knowledge About Tea

by Kevin Burton    Somebody, either me or my wife Jeannette, went a little crazy buying tea in a discount store some years ago.    Guess which one.    We had visited her parents in the county west of us. On the way home we stopped at one of those discount stores. I found tea …

Retronyms: The New Defining The Old

by Kevin Burton    We all know that time marches on. So does technology and so does the language we use to describe it.    Today from our friends at Merriam-Webster dictionary, we get some phrases made necessary by those inexorable marches. They are called retronyms. Think of them as a blast to the past. …

Cereal, Court Cases And Sweet Memories

by Kevin Burton Kellogg’s and other makers of sugary breakfast cereals will be restricted in how they market those products in the United Kingdom starting this October, according to the BBC. The Royal Courts of Justice last week ruled in favor of the government in a lawsuit filed by Kellogg’s. The American food giant had …