Here’s a fun, tasty way to spend your Saturday: Eating, drinking and dancing at the Opa Greek Food and Pastry Festival. From 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., at St. Anthony’s Hellenic Orthodox Church, 1600 S. Glenwood Ave., in Springfield, you can enjoy Greek music, taste authentic chicken, gyros, shish kabobs, spinach pie, Greek salad, baklava, […]
Beer
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In Big Beer we do not trust
OK, that’s it – no more Mr. Nice Guy from me when covering the avarice and arrogance of corporate power! The monopolistic grabfest has now turned personal. It’s about beer, the nourishing nectar of a civilized society. From my teen years forward, I’ve done extensive and intensive consumer research on the brewer’s art, from the […]
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Cooking with beer
It’s one of the oldest beverages in the world – almost certainly the oldest alcoholic beverage. There are references to it in some of the earliest writings discovered in ancient Sumeria and Mesopotamia. In its modern forms, beer has a range of flavors and complexities that can match and often even exceed wine. So why […]
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A corporate Monster v. “The Vermonster”
Where are those lawsuit abuse groups when you really need them? Chance are that you’ve seen ads, letters-to-the-editor, op-ed pieces and other materials put out by outfits with such civic-sounding names as Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. By whatever name, the message is always the same, usually delivered in a sort of urgent, basso profundo voice […]
