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gq:
The Hangover, Part III
(The James Beard Award Winning Story)One of our favorite stories in GQ last year was correspondent Brett Martin’s very very funny account of what happened after Aziz Ansari asked on Twitter if a magazine (or travel channel) would please pay for him, chef David Chang and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy to go to Tokyo and eat food together … and GQ happily volunteered.
Tonight, Brett won a James Beard award for it in the humor category.
(By the way, this was also one of our favorite photos in GQ last year. It’s by Ture Lillegraven)
Wu Tang Flan ain’t nothin’ to fuck with.
Food for thought:
Those annoying fruit stickers can, apparently, be quiet informative:
- A 4-number code denotes conventionally-grown fruits and vegetables (pesticides used);
- A 5-number code beginning with 8 means, organic or not, the fruit or vegetable was genetically modified (GE or GMO);
- And a 5-number code beginning with 9 means the fruit was organically grown without genetic modification.
An additional source. Good to know
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Created and designed by the same guy who brought you The Periodic Table of Sweets (Stephen Wildish), here’s a Venn diagram about pancakes!
love it…
The company that sells “pink slime” insists that the meat mixture is good for kids, but parents aren’t buying it.
In less than a week, Houston food columnist and mother Bettina Siegel collected 200,000 petition signatures, mostly of parents, who object to the meat mixture being served to children. She plans to present the petition to the USDA.
“The volume of signatures it’s received in such a short time clearly shows that parents just don’t want this stuff in their kids’ school food,” Siegel said. “But there’s also been a more general outcry among all consumers about the fact that this substance can be put into ground beef without any labeling of that fact.”
Be a smart consumer - know your butcher- know where your food comes from before ingesting it.
Taiwan destroys US meat laden with growth-boosting drugs
Workers carry US beef laden with ractopamine, a controversial additive used to promote lean meat, at a furnace in downtown Taipei on Monday. More than six tonnes of such beef imported by a local company that contained the drug allowed in the US but banned in Taiwan was destroyed. The move came as Taiwanese government is mulling a plan to lift a ban on ractopamine-treated US beef to facilitate stalled trade talks with the US, a key trading partner and arms supplier of the politically isolated island.
100 countries (China, and EU with its 27 member states and other countries) have prohibited the use of ractopamine as leanness-enhancing agent in animals.
Not to be missed — our Top 10 Balls To Try Before You Die
In other words, ballspotting.
I would love to add bombolinis (Italian) and falafel (Arabic/Egyptian) to that list… good post
Dinner Tonight: Momofuku Ramen
I’ve been cooking out of David Chang’s Momofuku cookbook for about a year, so it was finally time to break down and try the ramen. I’d held out because it’s a pretty daunting undertaking.
There’s a shredded pork shoulder. Roasted pork belly. A chicken stock made from pounds of chicken necks and backs. A Japanese barbecue sauce called “tare” made from another chicken back and a third of a pound of bacon. A sous vide egg. A thousand possible garnishes and embellishments. And I didn’t even TRY to make my noodles from scratch.
The end result is fantastic, but holy hell is it a lot of work. Not hard work, certainly, but a multi-day affair that will claim most of the pots in your kitchen at one time or another. I have a definite appreciation for single-focus ramen shops. The work and care that goes into truly exceptional ramen is easily enough to occupy a kitchen.
Also, one clear reason that everything Chang does tastes so good is that it’s all just bathing in fat. My kitchen is coated in this patina of schmaltz, pork fat and bacon grease.
In no way should you construe that in a pejorative sense.
Challenge Accepted!
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3000+ miles from the Mission… I need to get a flight to SF soon…
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Is chef Paula Deen a danger to America?
Anthony Bourdain slams the Food Network star for her unhealthy recipes and “connections with evil corporations.”
“Pass the fat please!”
Cioppino, Irish Coffee, Martini, It’s It, and Sourdough Bread are some of my favorite foods and drinks, created or made popular in SF
Life in the Post Food-Surplus World
There used to be a saying that the world produces enough food to feed everyone, but distribution and cost created hunger. That’s no longer the case. Now, there just isn’t enough food.
