Let's give up the pricey food and give the money that we would've spent on it to the people who can't perform. Wow, what a concept. It's called socialism and every society who has tried it has failed. It's the classic liberal feels guilty mentality.
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Hot turkey sandwich. Old school...White bread, leftover turkey, gravey and mashed potatoes.
These are my favorite restaurants in Vegas in ranked order.
I haven't been to Joel Robuchon or Guy Savoy although I hear they are the two best in vegas now. I haven't been to Bradley Ogden either, but I know its good, as well.
1. Alex at Wynn (short ribs to die for, service is steller)
2. Picasso at Bellagio (amazing food and service)
3. Daniel Boloud at Wynn (I could eat here every night if I lived in Vegas, more laid back than the Alex or Picasso)
4. Spago at Forum shops
5. Bouchon at the Venetian
6. Postrio at the Venetian
7. Tableu at Wynn
8. Delmonico at Venetian (Emirl's I know, but solid food)
9. Fleur de lys (I didn't care for it for several reasons)
I am a "food snob", but my favorite foods are "cucina povera" or they would be if I lived in the hills of Italy. What I buy from the Greenmarket are mostly greens, roots & tubers, and fruit. Nothing I love more than brocolli rabe with white beans garlic and dried red pepper, or crusty roasted potatoes and winter squash with dried rosemary, winter soup made out of dried chick peas & a couple of dried mushrooms and their soaking liquid...good healthy food doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. A bottle of good olive costs the same as a bottle of decent wine and lasts much longer!
personally I dont feel the least bit guilty when I get in my 8 yr old paid for compact car and drive to the grocery store and buy more expensive ingredients with money I worked hard for. Not even when I see a mother with 3 kids in tow filling her cart with junk food and high end meat, paying for it with a state debit card(food stamps), and then getting into a 20,000$ suv with custom wheel covers etc. I'll keep buying my expensive oilve oil as long as I can afford to.
Oh my laws, yes!
*handkerchief held daintily to forehead*
I have had to switch from beluga to osetra!
mtsod, you really have no idea what you are talking about, and you (and the rest of us too) would be better off if you kept your infantile comments to yourself.
I am on a personal journey of learning to eat smaller portions. Because I eat out a lot, I am often served portions that I used to enjoy but now find way too large. I find it makes sense for me to eat at home or at buffets, where I can control the portions. I loved "The Omnivore's Dilemma." Should be required reading for anyone who eats.
Eating less meat means eating less meat, not cutting it out completely, and that sounds reasonable. In fact, I started buying locally, grass-fed beef since this summer and pretty much refuse to buy it from the grocery store anymore--beef is one of those things that's not necessarily seasonal, and so can be acquired at the farmers market all year. Since it costs more at the market, we just eat less of it--and it's been just fine, actually.
I have to agree that we could just eat less in general. A lot of restaurant portions are ridiculous; we've switched to eating at sushi places or tapas restaurants when we go out, mostly because the portions are a lot more manageable. Yeah, not cheap either, but we only eat out fancy-like every couple of months (birthdays, anniversaries, special occasions).
I don't think we need to eat as much as we do, particularly meat. I think American culture thrived on the bounty created by industrialized meat (and food in general), when it first started out. But we've taken that to an extreme in a hedonistic way, almost. So the fact that there are repercussions and that, in a capitalistic society, it continues to be lucrative (and cheap for consumers), are both not surprises.
I think of farmers in the past eating--they had true cause to eat heartily, considering they were caring for an entire farm--and I think they would be a little shocked at how much we eat. Overeating, to me, is a little like drinking too much--for special occasions or times when you've managed to bring together a large group of family and friends. Should we drink too much every day? No. The occasional over-indulgence (and the inevitable "oh that sucks" moment the next morning) keeps us in check--or should.
This isn't me shaking my finger at people, but with people shaking their fingers at how little I eat (I'm five feet tall and wanted to lose weight, and am now maintaining--so my portions seem just fine to me), I wonder if they should examine not how little I eat, but how much they do. Yeah, a small sandwich does look pathetic next to a steak and cheese on a humongous grinder roll--but it's not so pathetic if you add a salad, some ingenuity and a few more years on my life.
Wow, I didn't realize I had so much of an opinion on this...
I wanted to reply to vineofivy's comment on the futility of action with McDonalds on the scene. Ironically, McDonalds has done more to improve feedlot conditions than anyone, since they can make demands on the giant meat processors that smaller buyers can't, such as improving slaughterhouse rules. While I haven't eaten any fast food hamburger in years and years (last one I ate gave me the runs instantly) the animals were better raised for them than most of the regular beef at the supermarket or at your local diner. The first step is demanding grass and organic meat whenever you consume meat - and help make it a menu option everywhere, not just the high end seasonal driven places. Even McDonalds will put a grass fed organic hamburger on the menu when there's demand for it. But until we refuse to buy industrial meat (yes, no $2 steaks for sale at the super, or $6 roasted chickens), it will keep being churned out no matter the cost to the environment or our health.
in the great words of Esqueleto, "I believe in Science."
(obviously there is no way in hell any mass cattle producer would spend $1/day per cow. but still... pretty cool
All of this is why I have not bought more than a few pounds of meat in three years. I hunt or fish for all my meat, so, when I have been successful I eat more (especially fish, which does not freeze so well). When I am not, I eat less. I don't feel like I am missing anything, and I care a hell of a lot more about my food now than I did before.
I sat in a freezing marsh for five hours yesterday in a windstorm and got nothing. So you better believe that when I do get a duck or a bass or a deer I am loathe to waste a bit - and, I make meat last longer by doing what many in other countries do: Extending it in stews, making charcuterie and lots and lots of broths and soups with bones and random bits.
Is this something everyone can do? Probably not, but some of us can. And by buying more sustainably raised meats, which are more expensive, you are choosing to pay for quality - and, I hope, will be far less likely to waste it.
Anyhow, that's my $0.02.
I also found the article thought provoking and disturbing. DH and I don't eat much meat, maybe once or twice a month, mostly for health reasons -- but I won't give it up completely because sometimes you just gotta have a steak or a burger.
After reading that article, though, I would be much more inclined to stick to only grass-fed meat. It's not just the environment -- it's also the fact that we're subsidizing all that grain production, but the grain is going to cattle instead of to starving humans. AND the grain isn't even good for the cattle to begin with! It's just so stupid -- we take food out of the mouths of humans so we can feed it to the cattle, it makes the cattle sick, so we then pump them full of antibiotics, which in turn make us sicker. No thanks.
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