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Passover NYT Article...
I'm not Jewish but I found this article profoundly moving. The ingenuity necessary to survive the experience notwithstanding, some even found ways to make matzo and keep the Passover holiday. I wish the article had been longer.
Passover Menu
I've noticed a lot of posts recently about passover menus. I was just on the Los Angeles Times website and I saw this wonderful piece in the Food section. I hope it will help some of you- or at least give some helpful suggestions:
Nutraloaf?
So bad it's allegedly punishment for prison inmates. Anyone got a recipe? Ever tried it?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Food-or-Punishment.html
Racial Tipping point
Interesting article in the Freakonomics blog today about tipping practices, and what data tells us.
"A cross-tab of the raw data shows that white customers tipped black servers almost four percentage points less than white servers and that black customers tipped black servers half a percentage point less."
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/the-racial-tipping-point/
(btw, the article starts out with taxi tipping and moves on to talk about restaurant tipping)
Do you think you tip fairly?
Attack your Front Lawn?
This NYT article briefly discusses architect Fritz Haeg's _Edible_Estates:_Attack_on_the_Front_Lawn_, a book on the progressive concept using one's front yard -- not backyard -- as a vegetable garden.
I'm not a homeowner yet, but I envision my "attacked" front lawn with a cornstalk fence along the property line, a Common Fig flanking each side of the house, a grapevined trellis over the front door, bush-sized herb plants in boxes, bright colors popping from red pepper plants, eggplant and yellow squash (summer), red cabbages, varicolored pumpkins (fall) and just to thumb my nose at Monsanto . . . two huge boxes full of dandilion plants for salad greens.
How would you "attack" your front yard?
Happy foods -- Eat to beat the winter blues
Did you ever notice the way your mood changes for the seasons? I came across this article today that I found very interesting: http://www.homemakers.com/Health&Fitness/healthymind/happy-foods--eat-to-beat-the-winter-blues-n247237p1.html
I love you but you love meat
Has everyone seen this from the Times today?
http://tinyurl.com/26u2b8 (may require free registration)
Do you and your significant other share the same dietary restrictions? Both vegans? Vegetarians? Eat any and everything under the sun?
The French Laundry
Has anyone here been lucky enough to go to Thomas Keller's French Laundry? I used to fantasize about it when i'd go to napa but i haven't been in years. I hadn't thought about it much when i saw this article,
http://www.oneforthetable.com/oftt/stories/oysters-and-pearls.html
now i'm obsessed with it again.
i don't know if I'll ever get a reservation or ever be able to afford it, but I'm living vicariously through others so please tell if you've been
When Anxiety Is at the Table
There's an interesting article on the NYT website that describes the harrows of obsessive-compulsives eating out. Have you ever suffered this way in a restaurant, and if so, how did it manifest?
More corn but no fish?
An interesting article, Dead Serious, which discusses how "little progress has been made this decade in reducing the size of the Gulf of Mexico's dead zone, a massive area of oxygen-depleted water caused by agricultural and urban runoff."
The researchers identify corn crops as the worst offender and predicts even greater future problems due to increased demand for ethanol, a farm bill that subsidizes corn production and but not runoff mitigation practices by farmers, etc.
Thoughts?
Junk Food Country
"Living in Junk Food Country" is an article published this Tuesday by Newsweek.
The article discusses rural living and healthy diets.
Some excerpts are posted below.
Sibling Rivalry - Ann Landers' & Dear Abby's Pecan Pie recipes.
by John Byers
Every Christmas I used to cook a pecan pie from a recipe
I found in one of Ann Landers holiday columns sometime in the sixties. Since I was thinking of making it again this year, I was thrilled to learn that Dear Abby also had a pecan pie recipe. Hoping to combine recipes to create my own distinctive version of the dessert, I got a copy of each.
After studying them carefully, here are the only differences that I could find: Ann tells us to use white corn syrup; Abby suggests using light corn syrup. Although both women's recipes call for a cup of dark brown sugar, only Abby wants us to make sure the cup is firmly packed. Ann tells us to use a pinch of salt and a dash of vanilla; Abby, clearly wanting to leave nothing to chance, recommends using 1/2 teaspoon of salt and a teaspoon of vanilla. Otherwise, the recipes are exactly the same.
Since neither women, to the best of my knowledge, ever thanked the other for teaching her how to make what I consider a near-perfect pecan pie, I have decided that their dueling recipes prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that, no matter how famous you become, sibling rivalry never dies...
For the recipes and a cool website go here:
Sibling Rivalry
