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From Required Eating

Hunters Were the First Locavores

Hunters need to push a new public image based on deeper traditions: we are stewards of the land, hunting on ground that we know and love, collecting indigenous, environmentally sustainable food for ourselves and our families.

I'm from Wisconsin and nearly everyone I grew up with hunted. This is what hunters have been saying for years. They don't need a public image, they need media organs like the Times to stop pushing the stereotype that they are all red-neck gun nuts.

SAMiller at 11:21PM on 12/15/07

From Required Eating

Slice Gets a Redesign

How can a site about pizza have nothing about Chicago?

SAMiller at 11:08PM on 11/15/07

From Required Eating

What's Next—Requiring Hair Nets to Pour a Beer?

We warned you when they came for the smokers that food would be next! The nanny state is coming for you.

SAMiller at 4:56PM on 11/06/07

From Required Eating

The Future of the Jewish Deli

As all the old, modest buildings are replaced with shining towers and the people who have been here for generations and who defined this place are priced out of their neighborhoods, pretty soon there will be nothing left of the NY we know.

Those "modest" buildings replace other buildings and the people who have been here for generations replaced other people who had been there for generations.

People who lament for economic hardship and crime to preserve some silly ideal, that very likely never existed, are just as bad, if not worse, than the "white elites" who "prey" on the culture. You'd rather people suffer so you can enjoy some kitsch culture.

SAMiller at 9:36PM on 10/23/07

From Eating Out

How to Make Fancy-pants Restaurants Cheaper: One Critic's Radical Ideas

if I am meeting meeting my wife for a special-occasion dinner, I don't want to wait an hour and a half for a table.

I completely agree, but I can't tell you how many times I've had reservations and still had to wait 20 minutes for my table to be ready.

SAMiller at 12:59PM on 10/03/07

From Required Eating

Pasta Strike in Italy

While rising food prices are a grave concern, especially to the poor, going on "strike" is silly and shows a lack of economic understanding.

It is not as if Barilla et al. are just raising their prices to screw people. They are raising their prices because their costs are going up. They can not simply cut their costs because people are on strike.

We are all going to regret all this biofuel nonsense, when it turns out that "global warming" was as much of a threat as "global cooling" of the '60s or the "population bomb" on the 70s.

SAMiller at 4:54PM on 09/13/07

From Required Eating

America's Best Hot Dog Town: Cast Your Vote

B

Is there really any debate about this?

SAMiller at 2:01PM on 09/11/07

From Required Eating

Fightin' Words on Vodka

I think it is pretty amusing that someone who writes for an advertising trade publication would be up in arms over this.

There are many, many products where is little discernible difference in quality.

People who are buying Grey Goose are not buying vodka, they are buying status and image. And that is exactly what that ad is selling.

This is nothing new or remarkable.

SAMiller at 4:17PM on 09/06/07

From Slice

A 24-Hour Search for the Best Pizza in America

"Best Pizza in America" and no mention of Chicago?

Does anyone expect this to be taken seriously?

SAMiller at 1:52PM on 08/11/07

From Slice

Papa John's Invades Neighborhood Pizzeria's Turf

I love the ignorant postal worker: "Papa John's is just generic. Why are they coming here? Greed? I don't know."

Why do you think Johnny's or Scotti's are open? Why do you go to work? People are so economically illiterate it amazes me.

And Adam Kuban is absolutely correct.


Papa John's is fairly pricey. As long as Johnny's and Scotti's offer a superior prodcut they have nothing to worry about.

SAMiller at 5:14PM on 08/06/07

Responses to Comments by SAMiller

From Required Eating

The Best Hot Dogs

VIENNA BEEF!!!!!!!
Anyone from Chicago knows a true Chicago style dog requires Vienna Beef Franks . Drag it through the garden.

Food Hobo at 12:41PM on 04/11/08

From Required Eating

Man Bites Dog: Serious Critic Reviews a Chain Restaurant

I have to say, I like Cracker Barrel Breakfast. Their "mama's french toast" is the best french toast I have ever had and that what keep's my hubs and I going back. The lunch and dinner menu is mediocre, but I say definitely head back for the french toast, and then see how you feel.

mizzle13 at 5:44PM on 02/05/08

From Required Eating

Man Bites Dog: Serious Critic Reviews a Chain Restaurant

Jeez, Cheesecake factory and Applebees....Americanized famous dishes in unreasonable portions. Though I must say, if you articulate your distaste and dissapointment in a letter witten to the owners (via the corporate website) you can definitely score some free food vouchers. I wrote a letter to Carraba's explaining that I am a Philadelphia native living in Savannah, GA, and that I wish hey could raise the bar from salty shrimp (delicious, local versions of hich can be found in the river) and Subway loafs of bread. I got a 50 dollar voucher and a personal tour from the kind chef at Carrabas. All I wanted was for them to think about raising th bar.

Richard III at 8:57AM on 12/24/07

From Required Eating

Hunters Were the First Locavores

I had some thoughts on the piece, and the reaction, that are a bit bulky for this space, but they are here:
http://thegurglingcod.typepad.com/thegurglingcod/2007/12/bullet-points.html

The Gurgling Cod at 2:07PM on 12/17/07

From Required Eating

Hunters Were the First Locavores

That's true... I've found deer that were hunted purely for their racks and the scavengers enjoyed them. However, for others it turns into an addiction
Even for those who once were an admirable hunter.

Journal Entry Back
Second Iowa Man Pleads Guilty in Federal Court to Poaching Trophy Deer and Elk in Iowa and Colorado
Midwest Region, December 29, 2003

http://www.fws.gov/arsnew/regmap.cfm?arskey=11103

Purenvy at 10:37AM on 12/16/07

From Required Eating

Hunters Were the First Locavores

I'm not recommending it, but one way to look at leaving meat in the field is "feeding scavengers a little early".

gustoct at 8:01AM on 12/16/07

From Required Eating

Hunters Were the First Locavores

Meat left in the field is more efficiently utilized, (and more appreciated), than the meat processed and eaten by humans.

srhcb at 11:21PM on 12/15/07

From Required Eating

Slice Gets a Redesign

Thanks, Max! If we've made you hungry, our job is done.

@SAMiller: Maybe our job isn't done. When I started Slice, it was decidedly New York–centric, so Chicago wasn't part of the plan. But after so many years of same ol' same ol', I'm ready to branch out. I'd like to add a Chicago contributor. Know anyone? If so, get in touch: adam@sliceny.com

Adam Kuban at 12:15PM on 11/16/07

From Required Eating

What's Next—Requiring Hair Nets to Pour a Beer?

@Adam: Here's your robot.

Alaina Browne at 12:49PM on 11/08/07

From Required Eating

What's Next—Requiring Hair Nets to Pour a Beer?

i've heard about this - it's insane? is it OK to put fruit wedges on glasses? klg19 raises an interesting point. seems like a bit of a double standard.

j at 10:49AM on 11/07/07