Archive for the 'food' Category

Holes I never noticed before

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This is the lid to a food processor. Note the teeny hole in the center of the, er, plug piece. If you put an egg yolk and a squirt of mustard and some salt and pepper and a scant tablespoon, combined, of lemon juice and vinegar and maybe a smashed up garlic clove [...]

Wow.

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

My aunt opened a restaurant in Wisconsin some thirty-plus years ago and made quite a name for herself. She was way out in front of what’s become the eat-local-and-organic movement, and she did it really well, if I do say so myself.
She’s earned some well-deserved accolades over the years, and especially since selling the [...]

Sounds like a racial epithet, but probably isn’t!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

I have a head cold. I desired truly spicy food to deal with it, so I approached Nathan and asked for a suggestion. Nathan suggested a place he’d heard good things about but hadn’t tried: Szechuan Gourmet, on W 39th st. Conveniently, it’s not far from Penn Station; I figured I’d go [...]

Menu

Thursday, November 22nd, 2007

23 lb turkey (the smallest of the 21 turkeys my mom raised this summer)(taking forever to cook, of course)
Saveur’s Multicultural Stuffing
Mashed potatoes with lots of warm cream and butter (Kate’s on starch duty this year; making both of the above)
Kale from my mom’s garden (olive oil and garlic)
Green beans (steamed — possibly the only dish [...]

Michael Pollan on the Farm Bill

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The ever-excellent Michael Pollan pens an op-ed about the farm bill. Good stuff, and important for everyone who’s subjected to a daily onslaught of high-fructose corn-syrup and other highly processed “foodlike products” as a result of it. (Hint: that’s every American.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/opinion/04pollan.html


Americans have begun to ask why the farm bill is subsidizing high-fructose corn [...]