Month: March 2010

Fried Shallots

I absolutely love shallots (perhaps my favorite holiday dish is shallots in red wine from Roger Verge’s Vegetables), but I’ve never thought to make fried shallots to add a little crispy punch and texture to Vietnamese food, a quick salad, a burger, or heck, just on their own. Garnishes are something I so often forget […]

Web cam view of a NASA clean room

Web cam view of a NASA clean room

If you’ve ever wished you could get an insider’s look at the daily activities of NASA Goddard’s largest clean room, you’re in luck. Web cams are now providing live coverage of work on the components of the upcoming James Web Space Telescope. The cameras snap and display one picture per minute from the pristine workspace […]