Posted in Food Commentary, Gourmet, Windsor, animals, blood, cat, death, food, food magazines, goat, halal, slaughter, squirrel on Jul 15th, 2008
Warning: some readers may find the subject matter of this post disturbing.
An article in the latest issue of Gourmet magazine addressed the oft-ignored, but very real, dilemma of the carnivore that is the slaughter of animals for human consumption. We touched on this issue briefly a while back in a post on Provencal rabbit stew as […]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Recipe, Recipes on Mar 19th, 2008
Today I spent 7 long hours fixing this blog. One month ago we bought our own domain name and cut our ties with wordpress.com. They were great to us but we were ready to try some new things that you can only do if you have your own site.
Was I smoking crack? I […]
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Posted in Fast Food, Food Commentary, Wendy's, advertising, commercial, dining, eating, filthy chain stores, fish, fried, important details, news, philosophy, public health, restaurant, safety, sandwiches, television show, unhealthy on Mar 18th, 2008
Ok, this post isn’t as timely as I wanted it to be (I actually wrote it about 4 weeks ago), but it got buried under other things.
Basically, in a “new” commercial for Wendy’s (you know Wendy’s, right? It’s a fast food joint) they try to tell us that “it’s waaaaaay better than fast food, it’s […]
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Posted in British, Delia Smith, England, Food Commentary, Food Network, culture, entertainment, food, philosophy, television show on Mar 12th, 2008
So, the headline above might be slightly hyperbolic, but the sentiment I’m trying to convey is very real and serious. Last night, UK TV cooking legend, Delia Smith’s new show Delia premiered on BBC2 and instead of garnering the rave reviews virtually every one of her previous series have, this one has been roundly panned, […]
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Posted in Food Commentary, Recipe, Recipes, baking, cheap meal, cornmeal, easy, easy meal, food, fried, fritters, healthy, important details, lemon, lower fat, parsley, salt, sauce, seafood, side dish, snapper, tradition, vegetables, vegetarian, whole fish on Mar 11th, 2008
Salt. Does this word get your stomach growling? Get your mouth salivating? Lips smacking? Make you want to just ‘dig in’? Probably not. But could we live without it? Most definitely not. Doing some brief research on this dietary mineral not only “schooled” me on its lengthy history, but it also made me majorly appreciate […]
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Posted in Asturias, Chorizo, Europe, Food Commentary, Madrid, Spain, alcohol, alcoholic drink, appetizer, beans, beverage, blood, chops, embarrassment, fabada, food, indulgent meal, lunch, morcilla, offal, pigs, pork, sausage, tapas, tourism, tradition, travel, unhealthy on Mar 7th, 2008
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
- William Blake
Have you ever thought, as you sit red-faced, breathing shallowly, “just… one… more… bite”? Have you ever then taken that extra bite and thought to yourself — in your blood-starved brain — “maybe, after all, I could manage another one”? And, finally, upon swallowing […]
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Posted in Chorizo, Food Commentary, Madrid, Rachel Ray, Spain, chickpeas, food, pork, rant, stew, travel on Feb 19th, 2008
I know, guys… yet again, another Ray-Ray complaint. I just can NOT stop. I try, kids… I REALLY freaking try. I put her show on and within 30 seconds, I put her on mute. Within a minute, the channel is changed. I can’t do it. I try over and over again, […]
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Posted in Castillano, Madrid, Spain, acorns, castille, delicacy, ham, healthy, history, holiday, iberico, important details, jamon, language, pigs, pork, racione, serrano, tapas, tourism, tradition, travel on Feb 5th, 2008
Penelope Cruz’s “break-out” film was a lusty, comedic tale called Jamon, Jamon in which one of her suitors tells her that her breasts taste like serrano ham. Throughout the film (in which Cruz frequently appears partially clothed) there are many shots of legs of jamon serrano and iberico hanging in store windows, and the film […]
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You might not think it from the contents of this blog, but we are big fans of cheese. In fact, the only post on the subject of cheeses was written back in June and even then it only really dealt with cheese in brief, offhand kind of way. However, nothing could be further from the […]
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Well, it looks as though either my blog has been read by Fool Network execs or there are more people out there wondering where the diversity has been on the station (NOTE: There are alot of other blogs discussing how homogeneous TFN has become, not only me). Starting at the beginning of February (Feb. 2nd, […]
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