Hot water is a no-no because when it’s hot it can more easily leach stuff from your pipes. In old plumbing we’re talking about lead & other nastiness. it really doesn’t take any longer if you cover your pot &...

and about eight cold shrimp with lemon and tail sauce. Oh and tap water. But I have a well so it was nicely chilled, just like the air here in Pennsylvannia

in the trunk of my car for unexpected grocery stops. Other green ideas: Don’t buy individual bottles of water. Carry a refillable. Get a filter for your tap. Don’t buy canned soda... or for that matter try to cut down...

Yes, it was an interesting time, culinarily. My own memories of the period (I was four or five in 1968) include watching my mom grind her own coffee beans to brew her coffee with a Melitta filter (a weird practice in those days),...

dollars- about 4-5 bottles worth. Is it it the greatest pinot of course not, but a great deal for a easy drinking red. store it in the fridge and tap a glass when you want. box’s will typically keep for about 4 weeks.

A Melita filter or Bodum press means always having great coffee, no matter where you go. ; )

you think we can make the hay edible?" Or to debate the health risks of tap water vs. bottled water. I don’t think the people who live in a dessert with no potable water care if someone adds fluoride.

, decent fries, and I was stuffed for 10 bucks. I don’t really get the heavy metal "FILTERED WATER" pitchers they have introduced at every table.

mouth-watering finish. OUTSTANDING QUINTA DO NOVAL, $60 (2, 4, 58) - Spirituous and fresher nose of dried cherry, fruit gums and tart/sweet note of raspberry, sweeter profile in the mouth with lower acidity, warm and lusciously...

themselves better to some styles then do others. Whether its the mineral content of Czech waters, the strains of airborne yeasts in Bavaria or Belguim, the hops of the pacific northwest, etc.. it is going to have an effect on the...