Archive for the ‘general food’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
From an interview with Michael Pollan about What's Wrong with Environmentalism in Yale's online magazine e360.
I don't see myself as a writer of food and the environment. I see myself as a kind of nature writer who likes writing about the messy places where the human world and the natural ...
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Cruising in once again with useless kitchen information, I have a pretty strong opinion about knives. Mostly this is the result of people spending gobs of money on fully forged knives that aren’t chef’s knives. By my estimation that is the ultimate in kitchen waste, but before I ...
Posted in cooking, general food | 8 Comments »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
richardblais.net that is.
It's still under construction but there are some cool shots of some of his food worth checking out if you too were routeing for him.
It's got an incredibly odd meloncholly tune playing that doesn't jive with the food at all which I can only assume is because of ...
Posted in chefs, general food | 1 Comment »
Friday, June 13th, 2008
You know when you're watching the Final Four and you feel like you're going to vomit? With fifteen seconds to go your team--the one you've been rooting for all season--is up two points but the opponent has control of the ball, and they're driving slowly down court hoping to ...
Posted in Television, general food | 11 Comments »
Monday, June 9th, 2008
This post gets no image because it's just not the same without seeing them all together.
And so, new to me but not new to the internet, for the man or woman that says "I'll eat anything," cracked.com gives us The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World.
How in the eyes ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
Unfortunately over the weekend Julia Usher did not win the Food-Related Columns James Beard Award she was nominated for--meaning St. Louis will have to once again live vicariously through a Danny Meyer win. We can, however, rest a little easier with the knowledge that some of our own, in ...
Posted in St. Louis, general food, missouri, restaurants | No Comments »
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Backyard chicken farming being the urban-chic backyard accessory that it has become, there's been a lot of talk about it recently in the news. And while sure most of these city-farmers are simply vying for eggs while kicking it old school, there is a small segment of backyard-butchers taking ...
Posted in farming, general food | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Sure we avoided the late frosts of last year, but this year we're plagued by something new: rain. We're witnessing it right now with the strawberry picking delays, and according to this Missourian article, it means bad things for the corn crop ahead as it could "threaten the ...
Posted in farming, general food | 1 Comment »
Friday, May 30th, 2008
Having spotted a commercial for Eckert's last night I went to check out their website and noticed they now have a blog and and on it the news that the strawberries hit for them last weekend. Pick-your-own will be happening there again this Saturday.
Also, for the less farm savvy simply ...
Posted in farming, general food | 3 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Spike
Seriously. Who does this guy think he is?
Posted in general food | 7 Comments »
