Chas got to thinking about the comments below on Matt’s second “For the children” post, (including mine on supermarket cashiers who could not recognize squash or cabbage)and responded with some thoughts of his own. “When I was teaching, I used to hear the same lament from some students: “We can’t afford good-quality food.” “Yes, you …
Tag: Food
Food Stuff: Omnivory
Both Peculiar and Rod Dreher have linked to “The Omnivore’s Hundred”. Im not sure posting the whole list here wouldn’t knock off too much below, but it is wonderful (not all fancy, not all weird, though plenty of both, from fugu to MacDonald’s.) I scored a respectable 79, but now I have to look for …
Boletus!
This weekend we found some. Odd– not many, but HUGE, two the size of my head. Although we only got about ten big ones they made up into a generous risotto, a side dish with elk steaks, and two gallon jars of dried ‘shrooms. You can get an idea here: We had so many that …
Food and AR News
In Oakland you can have an actual farm, pigs and all. But in Chicago, the banningest city in the US (pigeons, foie gras, handguns), HSUS wants to compel you to cut off your dogs’ gonads. Of course they say it is a good thing. The Sportsman’s and Animal Owners Voting Alliance thinks differently: “The distorted …
Blogger and Boletes
Last weekend we went looking for Boletus edulis in the San Mateos southwest of here. It was an amazingly bloggish crew– us, MDMNM and Miss A., Mrs. Peculiar who also blogs as The Pumpkin King (Mr. P. is guiding in the Grand Canyon); and non- blogger saluki fan, artist, architect, and polymath Daniela Imre, another …
Food Links
Chas sent this rather odd Wired link on eating pigeons. Why odd? I’d say the tone of disbelief and humorous near disgust: “When you look at a pigeon, you might see a dirty, rat-like bird that fouls anything it touches with feathers or feces, but I see a waste-scavenging, protein-generating biomachine.” (Big snip) “But as …
Thanks to…
Terrie Miller, for Keller’s Bouchon cookbook, and Mike for Walter Jon Williams’ new novel. Reviews and food photos forthcoming… And Terrie, we’d be happy to take you hawking.
Update
After posting the link to Ruhlman on food below I went and caught up on the miles of quite wonderful comments. I like “fussy” pro Mike Pardus’s comment among many others (good for “writer” as well.) “Hi, y’all…….It’s nice to see that things settled down a bit since Michael posted my comments on initial post.For …
Meat!
Hilarious article from the Guardian by Fraser Lewry, a poor man who had to give up meat for a week, and SUFFERED. “My head is spinning. I really don’t know how you do it. The fake meat you’re expected to eat tastes nothing like the real thing; restaurants are charging you an arm and a …
Links
Like Rebecca I have been out walking. Also gardening– it is good for the souls. There will be pictures below. Meanwhile, the usual miscellany.. Patrick links to this Telegraph story about the use of pigeons to pay kidnap ransoms in Iraq. “One family attached $10,000 in $100 notes to the legs of five homing pigeons, …