Lila Prime

 I take attendance by having the students answer a question (previously 2017 ). What is your favorite fruit? watermelon (x7) mango (x6) appl...

 Sometimes a home-curated meal is just a bunch of lovely colors. Pink skinny udon noodles in miso broth, with a hard-boiled egg and various ...

We've passed 100 days of self-isolation but, in the tradition of this blog, I missed it exactly and will just post some half-finished th...

I am a notorious blueberry-lover. 'Twas with great anticipation that I received the housewarming gift of someone planting blueberry bush...

A dangerous beverage, I'd guess. This post's theme word is yardang (n), "an elongated ridge formed by wind erosion, ofte...

Like all social media, this blog too shall ultimately devolve into food and travel porn. Be glad I have decided to spare you the endless sel...

Cookies, cookies, and more cookies! Texas receives a special shout-out for being the most fun cookie cutter to use. The pi/2 fork rotation ...

I am able to supply an approximate of authentic ramen on-demand (given certain supplies and materials). Photo credit: M. Properly, th...

Truly, a lot  of cookies. This post's theme word is aciniform (adj), "shaped like a cluster of grapes." Hark! Do I see ac...

Why, though? You know what would go great atop this starchy transport layer? Another layer of starch, with a different form factor! Th...

I take attendance by having the students answer a question. What is the worst food additive? sugar salt coloring oil that thing in ...

Phew, I am much relieved. This is a critically important part of every French store! This post's theme word is zymurgy, "the b...

I appreciate these single-serving, perfectly-aligned tidbits of dessert. The colors are great. And I'm sure that each one has its own...

Many thanks to the nameless supermarket designers and employees whose choices in lighting, display baskets, and arrangements of tomatoes re...

The seasons are observed here primarily by fashionable footwear and window displays. We are now solidly into the "absurdities construc...

Certain calendrical conventions mean that today is not any particular day. But on the other side of a large body of water, there's a co...

Let's take a brief jaunt into one of my most active spreadsheets: the one that tracks my macronutrients  (consumed), exercise (performed...

The celebratory Christmas-themed rolled, frosted cake is called a "buche de noël", a Yule log.   It comes in many flavors, siz...

Living in Europe is living in exotic lands , which oscillate between the boring quotidian and the fascinatingly foreign. Markets in the str...

This very pleasing fruit display used mirrors and standard-size rectangular boxes. The mirror symmetry is part of the pleasing visual as...