Tonight Ed and I went to our first Christmas concert of the season, which featured the Utah Premiere Brass and the Salt Lake Choral Artists (consisting of five separate choirs: the Concert Choir, the Chamber Choir, the Women's Choir, the Salt Lake Vocal Artists, and the Young Choral Artists), who sang both separately and together in various ( Read more... )

From a very local farm - Suprenant's Berry Farm in Mooers, New York (in the Adirondack region of upstate New York) - I discovered this jam while driving around with Chris' family. It's a bit on the sweet side, but it's got flecks of chili and cinnamon that are hard to see on video (at least using my digital camera), but are definitely there, and ( Read more... )

Coarse cut orange marmalade might not be too different than any other type of orange marmalade, but I find it a bit tangier, probably because the orange bits are just a bit bigger. It's very slightly bitter - a taste I don't normally like, except in this case. I find it very difficult to find coarse cut orange marmalade in my travels; I got this ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in a previous post, chrismasto and I met STeaP TV vodcast co-hosts misfitmonkey and Joe in New York City to shoot an episode at Alice's Tea Cup. And here's proof!

I love jam. I have a small collection of many different jars in the fridge. I'd like to collect enough different jams so that the entire top shelf of the refrigerator is nothing but jam, but I may not be allowed (as per chrismasto) to get to that point. Nevertheless, in an effort to share my love of jam with the outside world, I thought I'd share short ( Read more... )

The good people over at STeaP had their first tea showdown, such that viewers could submit their favorite teas which would be prepared as per viewer specifications and drunk by the shows hosts. Because both chrismasto and I submitted entries (chrismasto, the Upton GFOP China Yunnan; me, the Craigmore Estate Nilgiri OP), we decided to film a pre-contest submission in ( Read more... )

It's an Italian tradition, one that both chrismasto and I grew up with, to eat pork and sauerkraut for dinner on New Year's Day; it's one of those things that signifies good luck. Now, I don't really like cabbage or sauerkraut or anything related, and neither does my mother, so we never really made that for dinner (my poor half-Italian father), but chrismasto loves it ( Read more... )