- Pandan is a plant used as a sweet-grassy-floral-vanilla flavouring in southeast Asian cuisine. (I encountered it in a box of cereal when we were on our roadtrip!)
2. I also tried Peruvian food for the first time; I didn’t know they made green spaghetti (tallarines verdes).
3. Here’s a s’mores hack from our trip: melt a bar of chocolate by setting it near the fire in its wrapper and then spread onto the graham crackers instead of trying to melt it by sandwiching with a roasted marshmallow.
4. Enterprise, Alabama has thirty whimsical 6-foot statues of boll weevils.
5. Cincinnati, Ohio has the oldest large telescope still in daily use in the U.S. (built in 1842).
6. SunChips is offering an exclusive flavour that you can only enter to win between 1:33 and 1:40 CT on April 8, 2024.
7. I’ve been doing a lot of new-to-me workout videos over the last few months, and I’m always surprised by the number of exercise moves that I’ve never seen before (Hindu pushups, for example).
8. I was happy to learn about the nature trails and boardwalk with interpretive signs at Indian Creek Nature Center near Rensselaer Falls, NY.