I awoke this past Friday morning to a gray drizzly day. Here in East Tennessee spring and summer are marked by thunder storms – great howling rages of wind and rain – interspersed, often several times in a single day, with blue skies and scudding high fluffy clouds. But winter bring steady day-long downpours, sometimes …
Author Archives: Kevin Weeks
Reading Periodically
September 22, 2008 – 6:10 pm
I just renewed my subscription to Cook’s Illustrated, my favorite cooking magazine. For years and years before the World Wide Web and before cookbooks had become one of the largest categories in book stores I subscribed to Gourmet and Bon Appetit, because those magazines were the best bets for a varied collection of recipes. In …
Your Government Makes You Fat!
September 15, 2008 – 5:00 am
Sounds like a headline from the tabloids, eh? But in fact it’s to some degree accurate – although it’s not a deliberate act – to say your government makes you fat. It’s another one of a case of unintended consequences that so bedevil our increasingly complicated world. But in this case we know who to …
An Extra Pound or 50
September 8, 2008 – 5:01 am
Myriad factors contribute to the increasing obesity of Americans – too much sugar, too little exercise, too many fries and too few Brussels sprouts.Even the company you keep influences your weight, which means obesity (and leanness) is to some degree communicable. But … We eat too much.
