To polish rocks, nature uses water, sand and motion.
To polish ideas and identities, we use the same approach
— a mix of inspiration, grit and energy.
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Since it's 'back to school' time, here's one from the kids.
Oakland, California teens working with the local organization Muse Video created the music video Are You Loving It? that address the fast food oppression they feel in their neighborhoods.
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
The word foodie — it's been around for a while now, but seems to be gaining in irritation and folly. The Simpsons' excellent Food Blog Rap is a great send-up, with lyrics like:
"I’ll Rhyme about radicchio, criticize Colicchio
Every pub is gastro, and all my beef carpaccio"
A pithier example, although NSFW, is the new song Foodie by rappers Jelly Donut, Ashkon, and Daveed Diggs chronicling the perils of the New York foodie scene. Yes, that is an image of a talking Cronut in the sky from the video. (Don't say we didn't warn you...)
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
G. Love & Special Sauce singing about Cold Beverages on a steamy day, now that we're in the dogs days of August.
"Dig me a hot coffee
Fill it up with ice
Watermelons like drink
Please fix me a large slice
Summertime is cool the heat is getting old
Yeah I'll have a beverage
Just make sure it's cold"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Louis Prima & Keely Smith. What more could you want?
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Our snack this week goes down-home with the Coon Creek Girls singing How Many Biscuits Can You Eat
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Presidents of The United States of America rock out on their love for Peaches — with ninja effects. Peaches and ninjas, people. Happy summer and congratulations to all the new graduates!
"Movin' to the country,
gonna eat a lot of peaches"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
It was great reconnecting with friends and colleagues from all over at the European Seafood Exposition last week in Brussels.
Just when you thought we couldn't find another song about seafood, here's The Andrews Sisters with Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood, Mama).
"Want some sea food mama
Steamers and sauce and then of course
I like oysters, lobsters too,
and I like my tasty butter fish"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
When you're looking for songs about food, or that use food as a ripe metaphor, the Blues are a gift the keeps on giving. Here Memphis Minnie sings Keep on Eating.
"Every time I cook, look like you can't get enough
Fix you a pot of soup and make you drink it up
So keep on a-eating
Oh, keep on a-eating
Keep on eating, baby, till you get enough"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
It's time for the Boston Seafood Show again (now called Seafood Expo North America). Shirley Temple sends us off in style with At the Codfish Ball.
See you there! This year we're moderating a panel on Sunday from 3:30 - 5 pm: Putting the “Food” back in Seafood – lessons learned from sustainable food systems, featuring Michael Dimin, Founder of Sea to Table, Louisa Kasdon, CEO & Founder of Let’s Talk About Food, and Joshua Brau, Director of Food With Integrity Program at Chipotle. Bring your questions.
"Come along and follow me
To the bottom of the sea
We'll join in the Jamboree
At the Codfish ball
Lobsters dancing in a row
Shuffle off to Buffalo
Jelly fish sway to and fro
At the Codfish ball
Finn-an-haddie leads the eel
Thought an Irish reel
The Catfish is a dancing man
But he can't can-can like a sardine can"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
This week is more of a dance-along snack with the lunch room scene from the 1980 classic, Fame. Irene Cara as Coco sings:
"HOT LUNCH, YEEAAHHH.
Macaroni and baloni, tuna fish, our favorite dish. Hot lunch, hey
If it's yellow, then it's jello.If it's blue,it could be stew, oo, oo."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Shirley Temple Black, who died this week at the age of 85, sings one of her most memorable hits, On the Good Ship Lollipop.
Happy Valentine's Day, which, as we all know, is really a holiday about chocolate.
"On the good ship / Lollipop
Its a sweet trip / To the candy shop
Where bon-bon's play,
On the sunny beach Of peppermint bay
Lemonade stands / Everywhere
Crackerjack bands / Fill the air,
And there you are / Happy landings on a chocolate bar."
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Legendary child star Shirley Temple Black died on February 10, at the age of 85. Some of her most memorable movie songs (and our favorites) were about food, like Animal Crackers in My Soup.
"Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
Gosh oh gee but I have fun
Swallowing animals one by one"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Lord Kitchener sings the Calypso classic Take You Meat Out Me Rice.
"A Bajan and a Trinidadian
Dyin' for starvation
The Bajan said, 'Look Trini
Leh we make a cook
I put the rice, an' you going put the meat
Den we going both have something to eat'
But when the pot was ready to done
The Bajan decide to pull a fast one"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Carmen Miranda, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis give Song of the Enchilada Man the full movie musical treatment.
"I've got a guy
All over town with a song goes the enchilada man
Come gather round for the song of the enchilada man
And for a treat good eat there's nothing better than
Enchiladas so nice and hot
Enchiladas I got I got"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Elvis and his shrimp boat band sing a Song of a Shrimp:
"He showed his mama and papa, the shrimp newspaper he read
An invitation to all the shrimp and this is what it said
Free ride, New Orleans, stay in grand hotel
Meet Creole gal who help you come out of your shell"
In a Halloween edition of Sing Along Snacks, ZZ Top sings of TV Dinners in a vintage 80s video. Scary....
"TV dinners they're goin' to my head
TV dinners my skin is turnin' red
Twenty year old turkey in a thirty year old tin"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Our love of craft beer is spilling over into Snack selections with the Beer Bottle Boogie by Ko Ko Taylor.
"Well I don’t like beer when I’m goin too fast
I don’t like foam in a muggy glass
You put out s’more and let the beats come on
I drink good beer when I go home"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Lou Reed rhapsodizes on the classic New York treat, the Egg Cream (which contains neither eggs nor cream).
"When I was a young man, no bigger than this
A chocolate egg cream was not to be missed
Some U Bet's chocolate syrup, seltzer water mixed with milk
You stir it up into a heady fro, tasted just like silk
You scream, I steam, we all want egg cream"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
Winemakers all over are in harvest-mode (or getting there soon). In honor of that, we're sending out a little vintage country with Mel Tillis singing Stomp Them Grapes. (The video is a bit rustic, but then, so is the song.)
"Stomp, stomp them grapes and make that wine
Put it in a bottle, boys, and ship it on down the line"
It's never too early or too late for a snack, so crank up that volume on your computer.
John Barleycorn is an old British folk song that tells the story of whisky making through the character of "John Barleycorn." Scottish poet Robert Burns published his own version of the ballad in 1782, and it's a story that writers and musicians can't stop coming back to.
Here Steve Winwood sings an acoustic version of Traffic's John Barleycorn (Must Die).
the lyrics:
There were three men came out of the west, their fortunes for to try
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn must die
They've plowed, they've sown, they've harrowed him in
Threw clods upon his head
And these three men made a solemn vow
John Barleycorn was dead
They've let him lie for a very long time, 'til the rains from heaven did fall
And little Sir John sprung up his head and so amazed them all
They've let him stand 'til Midsummer's Day 'til he looked both pale and wan
And little Sir John's grown a long long beard and so become a man
They've hired men with their scythes so sharp to cut him off at the knee
They've rolled him and tied him by the way, serving him most barbarously
They've hired men with their sharp pitchforks who've pricked him to the heart
And the loader he has served him worse than that
For he's bound him to the cart
They've wheeled him around and around a field 'til they came onto a pond
And there they made a solemn oath on poor John Barleycorn
They've hired men with their crabtree sticks to cut him skin from bone
And the miller he has served him worse than that
For he's ground him between two stones
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl and his brandy in the glass
And little Sir John and the nut brown bowl proved the strongest man at last
The huntsman he can't hunt the fox nor so loudly to blow his horn
And the tinker he can't mend kettle or pots without a little barleycorn
