Daily Archives: October 7, 2010

Pillbox: A search engine for the medicine cabinet

by Stefania Revelli WHAT’S HAPPENING The Pillbox program, developed by the National Library of Medicine, lets professionals and pill poppers visually identify unfamiliar pills quickly, based on their physical attributes (Pillbox.NLM.NIH.gov 9.2.10). Users can opt for the online Quick search — which sorts medicine by imprint (letters, numbers on pill), shape, color and size — […]

Mise en place = waste of time

by Grace Jidoun WHAT’S HAPPENING The culinary technique known as mise en place (French for “everything in place”) has been hammered into the heads of every culinary student and line chef for years — and now the general public, thanks to the Food Network. But we’re noticing that some cookbooks are rewriting the rules to […]

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