Tuberiffic!

I don’t know how I managed to get this far into 2008 without knowing that this is, by UN declaration, the International Year of the Potato. Mrs. Debris, who, true to her Polish heritage, is a potato fanatic, will be delighted.
In honor of this important celebration, I hereby pledge to dedicate myself during the balance [...]

Adieu, Florent

Yesterday’s New York Times brought the sad news that Florent, a popular bistro in Manhattan’s meat-packing district for two decades, will close at the end of June. I haven’t been to Florent in more than 10 years — half a lifetime ago for the downtown fixture — but it was, when I lived in New [...]

Yogurt

Like Salon’s Kate Hardin, I love full-fat yogurt, and I hate yogurt ads. This InfoMania report is simply delicious.
from current.com posted with vodpod

I has canned cheezeburger

Gross!

Huckabee is a laughing-stock, but not because he likes squirrel

Look, I’m no fan of Mike Huckabee. He’s a yahoo religious fanatic wolf in populist sheep’s clothing. But making fun of him for admitting to eating squirrel is nothing more than effete urban middle-class liberal prejudice. Even a Yankee transplant like me knows enough to appreciate Piedmont delicacies like Brunswick Stew. Of course, as the [...]

Free rice or free publicity?

FreeRice.com is evidently the latest hot “viral” web marketing scheme. The premise of the site is that viewers play a game in which they try to choose the correct definition of a word. For each correct answer, they will donate 10 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food Program.
Thus far, the total quantity [...]

Food for thought

Yet another academic book about a staple food item and how it changed or explains the World. Beans: A History is undoubtedly a fascinating read, deserving a place on the shelf alongside such other classics of the genre as Salt: A World History, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, Spice: The [...]

Yech!

Ann Bartow asks a very good question.

Sirloin and sexual stereotypes

The New York Times has uncovered the shocking fact that there are women who eat beef. According to the paper of record, “Women order a steak to show they’re one of the guys, and they don’t have ‘food issues.’” Funny, I always thought that women who ordered a steak did so because they, um, like [...]

When I said “we get together”, I didn’t mean …

A story in today’s New York Times reports on a brewing pizza war in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Johnny’s Pizza, a neighborhood fixture for nearly 40 years, is trying to persuade the Papa John’s corporation not to open a franchise right next door. Noting the “friendly rivalry” that has existed among the neighborhood’s established pizzerias, the [...]