What You'll Be Asked

http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/05/04/lydic

In my first essay, I discussed general guidelines for preparing for interviews for faculty jobs at community colleges. Now I want to be really practical. These are actual questions asked during interviews for English faculty in the past two years. You won’t be asked all of them, but my bet is that every question you might be asked is among these examples.

Gazpacho. Shuna & Athen’s Late Summer Fruit Version | Bay Area Bites

http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/2006/08/20/gazpacho-shuna-athens-late-summ...

We started out with some amazingly aromatic mangos, cilantro, a few different pieces of stone fruit, various particularly great specimens of melon, and of course we had to get cucumbers for their cooling qualities, and spicy peppers for a hot kick. What we ended up producing came to be known as Melon Gazpacho and I used it as a dessert at Citizen Cake as well as Aziza. Topped with seasonal sorbet, either a rare or delicate stone fruit or an heirloom tomato, the concept made an extremely refreshing, low sugar option for the sweet disinclined or the savoury experimentalist.

Welsh whisky

http://www.celticmalts.com/journal.asp?cat=51&hierarchy=0%7C4%7C9

so far I have not been able to find a single bit of evidence to suggest that knowledge of the distilling of alcoholic spirits existed in Wales centuries before it spread over the rest of Europe (and if anyone does know of such evidence, please get in touch with me!). Welsh whisky did come into existence later, so Wales certainly earned its place in whisky history ….. but that is for future articles!
Claim refuted in the article

Depression's Evolutionary Roots: Scientific American

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=depressions-evolutionary

Depressed people often think intensely about their problems. These thoughts are called ruminations; they are persistent and depressed people have difficulty thinking about anything else. Numerous studies have also shown that this thinking style is often highly analytical. They dwell on a complex problem, breaking it down into smaller components, which are considered one at a time.