Politicians Don't Like To Face Unpleasant Realities.

Wine Lovers Have Known For Centuries That Decanting Wine Before Serving It Often Improves Its Flavor. Whatever The Dominant Process, The Traditional Decanter Is A Rather Pathetic Tool To Accomplish It. A Few Years Ago, I Found I Could Get Much Better Results By Using An Ordinary Kitchen Blender.

I've Been On A Team That Won The World Championship Of Barbecue. But Barbecue's Interesting, Because It's One Of These Cult Foods Like Chili, Or Bouillabaisse. Various Parts Of The World Will Have A Cult Food That People Get Enormously Attached To - There's Tremendous Traditions; There's Secrecy.

What You Do On A Dinosaur Expedition Is You Hike And Look At The Ground. You Find Bones Sticking Out Of The Dirt And, Once You See Something, You Dig.

One Of The Problems With Posing A 'bold New Plan' Is That You Can't Just Extrapolate From Previous Plans.

Three Things About Water Affect Almost All Of Cooking. First Are The Hydrogen Bonds, Which Is Why It Has An Incredibly High Boiling Point. Another Is That It's A Polar Molecule, So That It Dissolves A Lot Of Things, And There Are Things That Won't Mix With It. And Then There's How Much Energy It Takes To Heat Water.