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6 lb 1040 page cookbook
I bought about 50 beautiful tomatoes in ‘the country’ last weekend ($8 total, including the basket! The farm stand is unattended and one pays by leaving money in a milk pail. But as I was counting my crumpled dollar bills I could feel the farmer’s eyes on me from a distance. I decided to leave 10 – after all the basket was included - and sure enough as we were driving away I saw the farmer walking toward the stand, probably about to go count the money. Or am I just a paranoid New Yorker?). I spent part of Monday chopping sautéing and canning. I was thinking, as I stirred, about my grandmother. Would she be disappointed to know that ‘canning’ these days’ means carefully pouring into “ziploc” bags (which probably cost me more than the tomatoes)?
For me, Summer comes to a close at the end of tomato season. (And I see bill is ready for the Fall pig roast).
Fine whine
In retrospect, it seems that Parker was doing to wine what Bill James was doing to baseball in the same years, and in the same way. Both Parker and James began, in the late seventies, as unknown amateurs with privately printed newsletters, rapidly found a hungry and enthusiastic audience, and by the mid-eighties had become the reigning authorities among people impatient with the old wisdoms.
71 Clinton keeps it's 2 stars:
It has evolved since then, when William Grimes gave it two stars in The New York Times, and so has its setting. In that prettified picture, 71 Clinton now stands as a testament to how much a trailblazing restaurant can do for a neighborhood — and to a restaurant's ability to please and prosper on the far side of the initial hype.
seems appropriate that lizzie grubman would be representing fatburger on the east coast. first stop, jersey city.
You don't support Democrats. Why should your ketchup?
Okay, the Whole Foods guy sounds smart, but this my friends is pure genius: Krispy Kreme doughnut drink. Pure evil genius that is.
Fast Company article on Whole Foods CEO John Mackey
Over three months, he gave himself a solo tutorial on modern factory farming. "I read a dozen books about how animals are raised in this country," he says, "going all the way back to Peter Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975. The more I read, the more I was interested in it. I said, Damn, these people are right. This is terrible."Is this guy insane?
Mackey did two things. He changed his vegetarian diet to vegan (he no longer eats food produced from animals, including dairy products). And he sent Ornelas an email telling her she was right -- not just about ducks, but about chickens, pigs, and cows. Mackey wrote that Whole Foods would immediately begin using its influence and buying power to demand that the meat it sells comes from animals that have been treated with a measure of dignity before being slaughtered. He invited Ornelas to help.
Sitting in his office in 2004, he says without hesitation, "Twenty years from now, factory farms will be illegal in the United States."I, for one, welcome our 87,000 square foot LES natural food overlords.
drink red wine for longer healthier life
3.4 megabytes of Santa Cruz chickens.
includes bush twins story
Kim Jong Il's eating habits:
The North Korean leader might be one of the world's most enigmatic figures, but thanks to a growing and eclectic body of books and articles that detail Kim's epicurean habits, more is known about what he eats than nearly any other head of state.
pepper primer
"Under the state's smoking ban, which went into effect last July, most counties in New York were given the authority to draft their own guidelines for issuing waivers. Typically, establishments must show a financial loss above a threshold established by the county, usually 10 or 15 percent.
....A statewide analysis of the smoking ban by the American Cancer Society shows that of the state's 65,000 bars and restaurants, only 132 have been granted waivers." NYT, June 17
When staying a D's house I often lament the shortage of good restaurants in not just Boulder Creek, but the entire San Lorenzo valley. The Pozole Jalisco produced by the non-work-permitted guest workers at a local gormet-to-go shop is a welcome addition to the eco-system and is a even better use of hominy than is grits.