Tweet Grains, Nuts, Seeds, Fats buckwheat flour whole-wheat vs. whole-grain native pea starch – Socode, a Belgian animal feed ingredient company, produces a native pea starch made from yellow peas. Per the Socode Web site, they separate and decant the protein (25%), fiber (15%), ash and sugars (8%), and fat (2%) from the starch (50%). …
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Writing Notes
Tweet (Refer to the Text Fragments post for interesting words and phrases.) Words hyphenated words: Generally words migrate from open (two words) through hyphenation to closed (one word). ‘life cycle’ appear to be skipping the hyphenation phase and though the open form still predominates, the closed form (‘lifecycle’) is gaining. Before versions are generally considered…
Famous Quotes
Tweet Books The book Paul Clifford is the source of the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night”. The full first opening line of the book is: It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept…
Text Fragments
Tweet (Refer to the Writing Notes post for word usage and to Food Vocabulary for food-related words and terms. Also see Remnants and Famous Quotes.) Interesting Words Contronyms A contronym is a word that has opposite meanings. For example, when Michael Jackson said that he was ‘bad’ in his video “Bad”, he meant that he was…
Blogging Tips
Tweet I’ve found that a good way to get blogging is transition what you’ve already been doing in text messages, emails, letters to the editor, forums, Facebook, and tweets into comments on your own blog. If you are using WordPress, then you can make this transition easy by installing the ‘Press This’ plugin on your…
Basic Software Tools
Tweet The Open Office word processor does not readily appear to have the formatting capabilities of Lotus Word Pro – or of Microsoft Word.