Brush Valley Brewer

I had three slices of eggy bread and a glass of orange juice for breakfast this morning. No weigh-in.



<ins datetime="2003-11-28T19:44:00-05:00">I had a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a> for lunch today. I had a Caesar salad with a slice of Gretchen&rsquo;s buttermilk white bread and a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a> for dinner.</ins>

<img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/iss.jpg" width="341" height="256" alt="International Space Station" />



<a href="http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/techscience/story/0,4386,222359,00.html">Food that's just out of this world - NOV 28, 2003</a>: &ldquo;Preparing the food for astronauts aboard the space station often begins a year before it is to be eaten. Finished meals are shipped aboard Russian supply vehicles; the latest batch arrived last month, along with the space station's new two-man crew, astronaut C. Michael Foale and cosmonaut Alexander Yurievich Kaleri. The meals must be able to survive for months without refrigeration.&rdquo;

<a href="http://www.ucomics.com/garfield/2003/11/27/" title="Welcome to uComics Web Site featuring Garfield -- The Best Comic Site In The Universe!"><img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/garfield-welcome.gif" width="341" height="102" alt="Welcome to my world!" /></a>

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/opinion/THKSGIVI.html?ex=1385355600&amp;en=8e543d755696589a&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND">The Blessings of Having Just Enough</a>: &ldquo;You could sort through America&rsquo;s Thanksgiving garbage till New Year&rsquo;s and never deduce from it just why we celebrate this holiday. It would be one thing if the day marked a real divergence from the American pattern of consumption &mdash; ending months of barely enough with suddenly too much. Yet for most of us, every day is a case of a little more than we need. One student of feasts stipulates that they contain &lsquo;foods not generally served at daily meals.&rsquo; For most Americans, however, daily meals now include foods that never used to be served at daily meals. By the standards of earlier eras, every day is a feast day, which is one way of saying that the very idea of a feast has begun to lose its meaning.&rdquo;

Gretchen cubed up some of the left-over ham from the other night and made ham and egg scramble for breakfast with a slice of toast with butter and a glass of orange juice for breakfast. The reset of the ham &mdash; bone and all &mdash; went into a soup pot to make split pea soup. Gretchen also sliced up the bread to start drying for the stuffing. Today I weighed in at 164&hellip; there has to be something wrong with the scale! <img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/slant.png" height="18" width="18" alt="Hmmm..." />



<ins datetime="2003-11-27T15:08:00-05:00">Gretchen and I had a little crudit&eacute;s for lunch today. We cut up a couple carrots and celery stalks and served them with a little of <a href="http://www.newmansown.com/4a3_creamyc.html" title="Newman's Own - Creamy  Caesar">Newman&rsquo;s Own Creamy Caesar</a> as a dip. We also had a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>.</ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-27T19:46:00-05:00">We have a standing invitation to my Uncle&rsquo;s house for their Thanksgiving celebration. That is where my parents were tonight. However, it would involve our going back to Florida, which is not practical for a long weekend holiday. Instead, we went to the Gretchen&rsquo;s parents for dinner. We did not drive a car. We did not fly a plane. We walked. They live next door. We were joined by Gretchen&rsquo;s sister and husband and her daughter and her husband. We started with a little antipasto, chips and dip, and a glass of <a href="http://www.sutterhome.com/html/wine/wz.html" title="White Zinfandel">Sutter Home White Zinfandel</a>. We had turkey and stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, black olives, cranberry sauce, and corn on the cob. There were sweet potatoes, but I did not have any. There were four kinds of pie: apple, pecan, pumpkin, and a pumpkin and pecan hybrid. I had pecan.</ins>

<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/business/27coke.html?ex=1385269200&amp;en=246637c394370cf8&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND">Subway Chain Chooses Coke, Displacing Pepsi</a>: &ldquo;In the latest volley of the cola wars, the Coca-Cola Company announced a deal yesterday to become the exclusive supplier of fountain drinks to Subway Restaurants, wooing the chain away from its partnership with thePepsi unit of PepsiCo.



&ldquo;The deal, which will put Coke fountain drinks in Subway&rsquo;s 20,000 restaurants around the world, will be effective in 2005. Pepsi had been the primary provider of fountain drinks served in the Subway chain since 1988, although Coca-Cola did supply about 15 percent of the restaurants with fountain drinks, bottles and cans.



&ldquo;Subway&rsquo;s decision to shift its business to Coke widens the Coca-Cola Company&rsquo;s lead over its competitors in the fountain business, which includes beverage service in restaurants and movie theaters.



&ldquo;Coke has about 68 percent of the domestic fountain business while Pepsi has 22 percent, according to Beverage Digest, a publication that tracks the industry. The fountain business is the second-largest sales channel for Coke and Pepsi after supermarket sales.&rdquo;

<em>Also via <a href="http://j-walk.com/blog/archives/031124.htm#26-12" title="Soup In The Movies">J-Walk Blog</a>:</em>



<a href="http://www.soupsong.com/imovies.html" title="Index: SOUP AT THE MOVIES">Index: SOUP AT THE MOVIES</a>: &ldquo;It was Jackie Mason who said &lsquo;You know how movies always have sex scenes and the studios say that is because sex is part of life and movies should be lifelike? So why don't movies have more soup scenes? Soup is part of life; no one was ever too tired to have soup.&rsquo;&rdquo;

<em>Via <a href="http://j-walk.com/blog/archives/031124.htm#26-07" title="Forks, Spoons, And More">J-Walk Blog</a>&hellip;</em>



<a href="http://www.calacademy.org/research/anthropology/utensil/" title="The History of Eating Utensils">The History of Eating Utensils</a>: &ldquo;The Anthropology Department at the California Academy of Sciences houses the Rietz Food Technology Collection. Containing approximately 1,300 items, this collection was assembled by Carl Austin Rietz, an inventor and businessman in the food industry. His interest in the industry led him on travels around the world to collect objects used in the production, processing, storage, presentation, preparation, and serving of food.&rdquo;

• 13.342 Gallons
• $1.499/Gallon
• $20.00
• 317.9 Miles
• 23.8 Miles/Gallon
• 6¢/Mile
• 16 Days

My breakfast this morning was a bowl of oatmeal. This mornings weigh-in read 162, so maybe yesterday&rsquo;s was not a fluke. <img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/cool.png" height="18" width="18" alt="Cool" />



<ins datetime="2003-11-26T16:17:00-05:00">Lunch was Panda Buffet&rsquo;s orange chicken on chow mien with hot and sour soup and a small sierra mist. No walk today. <img src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/m/h/mhl100/images/frown.png" height="18" width="18" alt="Frown" /></ins>



<ins datetime="2003-11-26T18:11:00-05:00">Dinner was a Caesar salad with a slice of Gretchen&rsquo;s plain white bread on the side and a <a href="http://www.sierra-nevada.com/beers/celebrationale.html" title="Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale">Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale</a>.</ins>