Sweet-and-Spicy Asparagus with Oyster Mushrooms and Cherry Tomatoes

Asparagus is one of those vegetables whose popularity and the excitement people feel about them are completely beyond me. Probably partly because all my life I’ve liked strong, intense experiences — culinary ones too — and the delicate, refined asparagus, together with the typical upper-class cultural aura surrounding this vegetable, is just completely unattractive to … Read more

Folk Asparagus

Folk Asparagus

If someone had told me even two months ago that I’d be sitting there flushed with excitement, emotionally invested, spending even several hours a day watching television, I’d have told them to… take a long hard look at themselves. Because ever since I moved out of my parents’ place at twenty (let’s politely call it … Read more

Mondelez International is guilty of misleading consumers!

Mondelez International is guilty of misleading consumers! The ruling concerns a lawsuit filed last year by the consumer association Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. over the company reducing the size of Milka chocolate bars from 100 g to 90 g without clearly informing consumers. Milka Alpine Milk received the title of “deceptive packaging of the year 2025” … Read more

This Is How the Free Market Works

Do you like coffee? Especially Arabica? Are you, like me, addicted to caffeine? If so, that’s a bit of a problem. Arabica, which makes up nearly three-quarters of global coffee production, is less bitter and contains less caffeine, but it’s far more valued for its flavor. The cheaper Robusta, with its less pleasant earthy and … Read more

Mayonnaise: Flavor and Calories

Let’s be honest — everybody loves mayonnaise. If you leave mayonnaise, a spoon, and a human being alone in one room, only years of willpower training will stop that person from absolutely demolishing the mayo straight from the jar. It’s like fries — evolutionarily speaking, it’s simply the best. But nowadays, those extra kilos and … Read more

Unhealthy Sprouts

At least 50 people across seven countries — more than half of them in Finland — have been infected with Salmonella. The most likely cause was… sprouts. From Italy. Products like sprouts and microgreens — so often treated as part of a healthy fitness diet, eaten raw, added as garnish, to salads and slaws — … Read more

5 things You Need for a Micro-tour

My favorite way to spend a day off for the last few years (as long as I’m not cooking during that free time) is a short one-day trip somewhere nearby. Exactly since the pandemic, when I was sitting alone in the forest and, so as not to lose my mind, I started walking around the … Read more

More economical cooking

Food is an energy-intensive game, whether we are talking about industrial production and processing or cooking at home. Or, of course, intermediate stages such as a professional production kitchen. It’s worth taking a look at our kitchen energy consumption and how we can reduce it.And not so much in the kitchen itself, because a lot … Read more

Fries and living in harmony with nature

If you don’t like fries, you are a bad person living against nature. Seriously Maybe you are a cyborg according to the prophecy of Bogdan Mielnik from Antrovis (one of two contemporary Polish sects, associated with several unexplained deaths of followers). Why do we like fries? Have you ever wondered why we like fries And … Read more