Month: August 2020

  • Superior’s Fully Cooked Ham

    Like Daisy Mae, you’ll discover there’s no fuss to even the fanciest dinners when you serve Superior Ham.

  • The Hard Problem of Breakfast

    Nautilus: The stubborn fact remains that, no matter how deeply we probe into the nature of bacon, eggs, oatmeal, and avocado toast—to say nothing of shakshuka, grits, bear claws, or dim sum—or the interactions between these fundamental building blocks and, say, orange juice or coffee and the morning paper, we simply have no convincing theory…

  • Intact egg recovered at Berryfields

    Oxford Archaeology’s excavation at Berryfields uncovered a wealth of evidence for Iron Age and Roman occupation at the site. They found a waterlogged pit containing what are thought to be votive deposits. Among those finds were four chicken eggs, one of which was extracted intact, making it the only complete Roman-era egg known in Britain.

  • Bacon and Egg

    Sir Nathaniel Baconby Sir Nathaniel Baconoil on panel, feigned oval, circa 1625 Augustus Leopold Eggby Thomas Oldham Barlowmixed method engraving, circa 1865

  • Ham Radio

    Some of the old ham radio operators grew up on cat’s whiskers and geranium. On a winter’s  night they would pick up Siberia on the second bounce. Those Ruskies were tuned in during the original Cold War.