Alongside cheap fastfood breakfast sandwiches and Shamrock Shakes, peanut butter is a weakness of mine. God, I love peanut butter. If I ha...

My father is getting married today. Never thought I'd live to see the day. He clearly doesn't share  my disdain for Valentine'...

It should be pretty simple, really. Read a food package, have a reasonable understanding of what's inside and what it would taste like...

Just in case Trader Joe is neglecting to push his latest offerings on me in the checkout area like Heisenberg peddling a fresh batch of Bl...

  With so much drama with these HBCs It'll be kinda hard eating the whole B-A-double-G But, somehow, some way I keep munchin these ...

Ah, there's nothing more American than the Superbowl. And there's nothing like a classic American snack such as English Butter F...

Ladies and gentlemen, from the team that last Friday brought you Organic Tricolor Quinoa , this Friday we present...Trader Joe's Multi...

In general, I've always disliked Valentine's Day—or as a friend of mine always referred to it,  "V.D." I hated the shal...

Gotta give my wife Sandy credit. Not just for putting up with me for nearly 10 years now. Although that's quite a feat in and of its...

Let's play a fun game called "What Random Old TJ's Thing Will The Rodgers Pull Out Of Their Pantry Because They're Not Cl...

Who knew about yuzu? Not me, naturally. C'mon, you expect that by now. And now, as expected, here's the Wikipedia link describin...

Why is it that eclairs seem so haughty? Just the name itself rings out with an air of froideur. It's almost as if eclairs are making s...

"You wanna taste something truly amazing?" I'm not asked that question nearly enough. But forgive me for being a skeptic...

Ah...dry, salty, crunchified plants. America has a love/hate relationship with you, doesn't it?  Just look at the raging debate in...

I hold these truths to be self-evident; that not all licorices are created equal. There's the common licorice currency of Twizzlers....

Many of you have probably heard of the  Norway Spiral . In the minds of the very sober and scientific-minded, it was obviously an interdim...

"Candy World! Dada, let's go play Candy World!" Every night, right before bedtime, that's about all I hear from my fou...

A handful of you might remember that not all that long ago, Sonia and I had been living without a microwave. We purposely neglected to r...

Truffles. Not the candy kind . The fungi kind. They fancy.  Super fancy. I mean, they can cost hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for ...