Jeb Stone > Analytics PhD
Observation, commentary, and helpful hints at the intersection of web analytics and social science

Great cornbread recipe from my mother-in-law.  I made a couple of changes… namely, the addition of canned green chiles and going with muffins instead of one big pan.  This recipe is fantastic: the cornbread muffins are crispy and buttery on the outside, moist (and buttery) on the inside.  Continue reading →

I got Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking for Christmas, and I’m totally inspired.  New Year’s Day traditionally requires at least one meal with black-eyed peas, so I put two and two together: black-eyed peas with some 16-bean mix for color, shrimp for flair, and a bercy sauce to push it completely over the top. Continue reading →

For years, no waffle recipe out there seemed to have the perfect combination of textures and flavors I wanted: Crispy and brown on the outside.  Tender on the inside.  Cooks in a typical consumer waffle iron. Has enough flavor to compliment a topping besides your typically overpowering American syrup.

And I tried them all:  Alton Brown’s waffles are too doughy. Emeril’s waffles are too soft and cakey. Paula Deen’s waffles are dry and nothing to write home about. Top-rated waffles on AllRecipes.com aren’t crispy or particularly flavorful. Our family recipes were hardly better than Bisquick.  The last recipe I found online, a Joy of Cooking waffle recipe, was so cakey and flavorless that I finally decided to stand up and do something about it. Continue reading →