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Some time back, I signed up for Vani Hari aka The Food Babe’s email list just so I could get a laugh from her daily “thoughts.” At some point, she put out a call to members of the “Food Babe Army” who have blogs to request advance copies of her new book “The Food Babe Way (subtitled” Break Free from the Hidden Toxins in Your Food and Lose Weight, Look Years Younger, and Get Healthy in Just 21

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So I promised a certain "babe" that I would blog about her book if she sent me a free copy. Guess who actually did so. More to come.

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Note: This is my contribution to the "Our Favorite Toxic Chemicals" blog carnival organized over at Sciencegeist. Amanita muscaria: Naturally delicious deadlyphoto: Pato Novoa For some time, and not for the first time, there has been a war of words going on between chemists and environmentalists/organic food proponents/hippies/etc.  Both "sides" are right in a lot of ways,

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The 2012 World Beer Cup award winners were recently announced (full winner list here), and California, specifically San Diego, raked in some serious honors.  Local winners include Pizza Port with a gold in (surprise!) the Imperial IPA category (Green Flash took the bronze), and a new favorite of mine, Manzanita Brewing winning the gold in the "experimental" category.  In Northern

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Credit: www.callcentrehelper.com In 2000, I was a college student in Melbourne, FL, working part time at a not-so-reputable market research company doing telephone surveys.  Truly thankless work.  That year, John Corzine would win a very close race against Bob Franks, spending $62 million of his own money in what would be the most expensive Senate campaign in history. So how did he

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Yes, she gave me the tongue. Spring is the perfect time to visit Arizona.  All of the desert flora is in full bloom, and the blistering heat of summer is still months ahead.  With this in mind, Mrs. Pegleg and I took a Friday off and headed to Tucson to visit a college roommate of mine who recently started a PhD program at U of A.  After a very windy Thursday night trip through

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Awesomely fractal romanesco I always tell people to hit the farmers' market in the last half hour; they always look at me like I'm crazy.  "Won't all of the good stuff be gone?"  Well, I suppose it's possible you'll miss a gem or two, something someone just managed to harvest a few of.  But you get some great deals when you show up at the end--some of these folks won't have

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Update 3/20/12:  As of a few weeks ago, ApeHangers is no more.  Unfortunately, the city wouldn't permit their smoker. After spending college in the South, I love me some Southern BBQ.  Slow smoked, tender, juicy, meaty goodness.  But where to find non-barbacoa BBQ in San Diego?  Some will no doubt say Phil's, but once you've had real Southern barbecue, Phil's

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It's been an extremely busy couple of weeks, and I hope to get some posts done this weekend about Vincent's in Escondido, Ape Hanger Grill, and Sunshine Mountain Winery.  Until then, here's a few good links for a Friday: @Chemjobber has an amusing list of questions you don't want to hear on a job interview Via @LouDPhillips the Prosthetic Medic just had an above knee amputation The #

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To celebrate Mrs. Pegleg's after-Christmas birthday a tad late, we flew to Vegas last weekend.  Up at three thirty, in Vegas before eight.  Since hotel check-in isn't until noon, what's there to do?  That's right--breakfast, bloody Mary, and mimosa!  We headed to one of the three (!) Vegas locations of Hash House a go go, having loved the original back in SD.  The SD

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In the fall of 2010, I was starting to have a lot of problems with my stump, skin irritation leading to scarring and an eventual minor surgery to remove scar tissue.  During this time, my employer changed insurance providers, and I was introduced to the OG of managed health care:  Kaiser Permanente.  My new docs referred me to the Kaiser prosthetic clinic, and I thought all was

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The chemistry blogs today are abuzz with the news that University of California regents and a professor at UCLA are facing felony charges after the death of a lab assistant in a lab fire back in 2008.  The UC system and Professor Patrick Harran face three counts each of willfully violating occupational health and safety standards. In the years I've spent in labs, both as an

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To mark our three-month anniversary, Mrs. Pegleg and I went out to Temecula, a local wine region, and one of the first places we went when dating.  We made a lunch reservation at Pinnacle Restaurant at Falkner Winery, and headed out to check out Chapin Family Winery beforehand. We drove past the place at first, then realized it was the neighbor of another small winery we'd visited.  

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This piece about fermented foods and their recently renewed popularity appeared in my RSS feed last week.  As a disclaimer, it’s not much of a column, really more of an ad for some dude named Andy’s slaw.  Also, it’s written by a chiropractor; you know, the semi-crazy sort who gives nutritional advice.  In this case, though, she’s probably right; I believe

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Interesting chart I found at realbeer.com. Damn, it seems I intake a hell of a lot of calories via beer.  My favorite seasonal, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale comes in at 214.  I guess thank FSM for my metabolism!

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So last Saturday, November 19th, Mrs. Pegleg and I woke up quite early and headed to SD for our volunteer shift at the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival Grand Tasting at Embarcadero Park. We talked the in-laws into dropping us off, decided to take the train home so we could both enjoy all of the fine wine and spirits available. Arriving at six-thirty in the AM, we were there to work exhibitor

Captain Pegleghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12357772087200682911noreply@blogger.com3Embarcadero Marina Park South, 1 Marina Park Way, San Diego, CA 92101, USA32.7039097 -117.164685432.7024112 -117.1667969 32.705408199999994 -117.1625739tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956940154167784768.post-62400933346009400992011-11-27T17:29:00.000-08:002011-11-30T09:07:45.654-08:00

After a couple of weeks of recipe development, Saturday the 29th of October was go time. Headed to Hollywood for the Master Chef casting call at Le Cordon Bleu on Sunset. I'd auditioned last year and done well, getting a call back for an on-camera interview. A couple of days before the call, I got an email that I was a VIP--scheduled time to show up, no waiting in line. Sweet! Last year, I had to

Captain Pegleghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12357772087200682911noreply@blogger.com1Le Cordon Bleu, 6370 Sunset Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028, USA34.097983 -118.32877500000001-0.8655210000000011 -178.0944 69.061487 -58.563150000000007