Flipping through some old magazines last night, I came across Wendell Berry’s essay, “The Pleasures of Eating,” from his 1990 What are People For?. I read it at lunch today, then spent the entire afternoon hoping it was online somewhere so I could share it. Low and behold, here it is.
I’m not going to quote [...]
Wendell Berry Wisdom
Death by Bacon
Not to rain on anyone’s bacon parade, but I did a little research the other day, and bacon is linked to NO FEWER THAN 13 types of cancer. We’ve got:
bladder
stomach
prostate
colon
lung
oral
pharyngeal
laryngeal
esophageal
small intestinal
pancreatic
large intestinal
brain
Yes, bacon can give you brain cancer. Not that one serving of bacon explosion is going to kill you, but if, say, you’re contemplating [...]
Salmonella to America: Wake Up!
It takes something I’m really frustrated with to get me out of an (ahem) three-month blogging lag, and this morning, the Washington Post provided it. (Which, ah, I knew because Huffington Post twittered it…have I mentioned that half the reason I haven’t been blogging is because I’ve been deceiving myself into thinking twitter posts phoned [...]
woot woot!
california cheese represent! also, props to wine.woot for telling the tale of the producers behind the cheese…
Slow Food Nation Videos Online!
I have to say, the one major disappointment I had during the Slow Food Nation event over Labor Day weekend was that they were not broadcasting the sold-out panel discussions via webcast. Good, clean, fair food for all is a noble goal, but when your “for all” goal and your “for X-number of ticket holders” [...]
Pollan Manifesto and Stilton Dreams
As I once learned from a fellow homebrewer, every good homebrewing session involves cheese. Cheese, and some crackers or bread, and something savory like summer sausage or salami. Snacking during the multi-hour homebrew process is almost as enjoyable as throwing hops into a boiling pot of wort.
Yesterday’s homebrew session followed an earlier-in-the-week stop at Taste [...]
the week of no camera batteries and…
homebrew cooking!
What a shame they had to coincide. You’d think after yesterday’s pizza-sans-photographs dinner I would have secured a few AA’s today, but the sun was shining when I got home and I couldn’t resist taking the bike for sunset spin.
So it was unfortunate when, after rushing inside to both beat the 7 pm darkness [...]
first attempt at…
homemade pizza.
There’s no going back. Especially when your toppings include homemade tomato sauce, elephant garlic, garden rosemary and basil, fresh sundried tomatoes, bacon, la milpa organica arugula, sweet red peppers, blanched asparagus, and cremini mushrooms (and everything but the bacon and homegrown herbs from the farmers’ market).
I’ve never regretted the need to replace rechargable batteries [...]
I know I should be blogging but…
I borrowed a copy of Infinite Jest and damn, it’s captivating. Sorry, but my free time is spoken for, at least for a few more days.
After I get through a few hundred pages, I’m sure I’ll slow down. Until then, here’s a quick snippet of what I would be/will be blogging about when this 10 [...]
Intense Individuals at the Abbey this Friday
I can think of no greater day of the year to embrace all the intensity in the world than the day of Lisa Comrie’s Intense Individual party. This year’s promises to be bigger and more intense than any other–it’s being held at the Abbey, benefits ARTS: A Reason to Survive, and is threatening to max [...]