Holiday Cookie Recipe Contest

Quick!  The deadline is November 1st for you to submit your favorite family recipe for those cookies that Aunt Betty used to always make.  Here are all the details (click there), but what you really need to know is how cool the prizes are.  Not only would you be the undisputed King or Queen of holiday cookies, but you’ll be [...]

Limestone Scale

The Indiana State Museum is known for its architecture, built with elements found in Indiana such as steel, limestone, and the like. Turns out it is also good for climbing (don’t try this), and will be featured in a documentary entitled “Concrete Mountains”, being produced locally by an IUPUI School of Informatics student, Greg Oppman.  Climbers [...]

Cooking on Radio

Food Network is a great place to watch chefs at work…but have you ever considered radio?  You know… that old fashioned medium that forces you to create your own image in your mind’s eye.  It could be argued that radio is more demanding of you, as you must imagine a certain amount of what you’re hearing.  [...]

Bombes in the Gallery

There was a certain amount of alarm in the V.P. of Museum Program’s voice when he heard that not only were we going to COOK in a museum gallery, but we were actually making BOMBS! Well, once he learned it was BOMBES and we planned to merely melt some chocolate, he relaxed a bit.  Once he tasted [...]

Midges, Beans, Machetes, and CHOCOLATE!

What do midges, beans, machetes, and chocolate have to do with each other?  It all relates to America’s favorite flavor, chocolate.  You must know that chocolate comes from a bean;  the cacao bean, which is a seed from a pod on the cacao tree, which grows in the rain forest.  There’s a teensy bug called a midge, [...]