Follow the Yellow Brick Road (Strange Search Terms)

One of the fun parts of blogging is looking at the reports that tell which search terms have pointed people in the direction of your blog.
I am quite sure there are great insights to be found by studying this. Some of the insights are definitely useful.  I am now certain, based on the consistently large [...]

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‘As the World Blogs’ The Mini-Series

There’s a soap opera on TV which has somehow survived the programmers’ ax since the first episode aired in (gasp!) 1956.
‘As the World Turns’. I never watched it. During the short time I watched soap operas, I switched the channel to it now and again to taste the flavor but it seemed leaden and [...]

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Blogging Food History

In a general sense, every person who blogs on food is blogging food history. A rather remarkable record exists of our current times free of most of the constraints which limited real-time documentation of foodways in past times – today’s blogs document both high-end and lower-end dining. What’s blogged today is what is actually on [...]

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Take Pinch of Salt and Apply to Web

Ah, the tangled webs we weave. The online experience certainly is a curious one. And there are times when it becomes curiouser and curiouser, in ways that resemble Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The cast of characters exist right there on the magical screen.
There are the Wizards who (as in Oz) pretend to be one thing [...]

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Wake Up, You’ve Been Tagged!

Everyone should have one of these table accessories.
It’s a Scottish Table Cat. Or so she told me.
Really it is otherwise impossible to exactly create this elegant yet lazy ambiance, perfect for summer dining.
If you can not find a Scottish Table Cat you will have to somehow survive till the day one appears and plops him-or-herself [...]

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Gone Fishin’

Or maybe “summer’s here and the time is right for dancin’ in the streets . . .”?
foodvox is taking off for the summer – heading westward – covered wagons – cowboys – surf fishing – canoeing – digging clams – cleaning conch – lazing in a hammock.
Thanks to everyone who visited this past month . [...]

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