Hunter's Canvas

Hillary vs. The Coffee Machine

Bento!

I'm always looking for better ways to get my food from the store to my apartment and my apartment to my office.   We have the all-important canvas grocery tote, the increasingly-important mesh produce bag and now (by now I mean 2001) there's the absolutely indispensable Laptop Lunch! It's a lunch box with four containers for main dishes and a little container for dressing and such. 

I found this lovely contraption on Flickr where there are many folks posting pics of their bento lunches.  This particularly tasty-looking lunch (I love quinoa!) was made by Bento Jane.

Coney Island remains open for another season!

Coney Island will stay open through next season.  I am very happy to hear that we can enjoy Burlesque at the Beach once again.

Pic Cred

The kid wanted Applebee's!

  Pic Credit 

"BROOMFIELD, Colo. - A 6-year-old boy was hungry and decided he'd go to Applebee’s. So he grabbed the car keys, took his booster seat from the back seat of his grandmother's car and placed it in the driver's seat, then made a go of driving himself to the restaurant Tuesday."

He was hungry!  I love that he grabbed his booster seat from the other car.  Very funny.

Is it too much to ask?

To have naturally raised meats and organic beans in our burritos?  Apparently not!

I ran into some very nice folks from Chipotle at Farm Aid a couple weeks back (working with OROE to make sure folks recycled/composted at the show).  It was an eye-opening conversation.

I've been going to Chipotle for the last year or so and always felt mildly guilty considering their association with McDonald's.  But the Chipotle peeps gave me the scoop - McDonald's fully divested their shares last year so Chipotle is free to be a great company.  They use local, naturally raised meats as much as supply allows (100% in NY stores), as well as organic beans and rBGH-free sour cream.  Hence their presence at Farm Aid.  They call it FWI - Food With Integrity. 

I had a lot to thank my new Chipotle friends for - besides freeing me from the fast food guilt, they also gave me a coupon for a free burrito and some chapstick ("guac-stick" it's called).  And as if that weren't enough, I went back for lunch the next week and once again got a free burrito - this time for simply bringing back the bag from my previous lunch. 

Check out their fun website. Good stuff.