Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
Were from Southern Tier NY and after my Dad moved to Florida I used to send him Spiedie meat and Sauce. http://spiedies.com/
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Feed People or Kill Our Waterways: The Real Omnivore's Dilemma?
Sorry the above comment should have had quotes for the passage from Michael's book.
"(Vaclav Smil) estimates that two of every five humans on earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention... as these numbers suggest, humans may have struck a Faustian bargain with nature when Fritz Haber gave us the power to fix nitrogen."
Feed People or Kill Our Waterways: The Real Omnivore's Dilemma?
I have been very scared about this dilemma ever since I read Michael Pollen's Omnivore's Dilemma this last year. We have been living on borrowed time since Fritz Haber invented artificial nitrogen fixing. As Michael mentions,
(Vaclav Smil) estimates that two of every five humans on earth today would not be alive if not for Fritz Haber's invention... as these numbers suggest, humans may have struck a Faustian bargain with nature when Fritz Haber gave us the power to fix nitrogen.
I feel the same about this situation as I do with our involvement in Iraq. There is no pretty way out.
Valentine's Day Chocolate Giveaway
For years I've always went for the milk chocolate over the dark, but since I hit my 40's I've been leaning toward the dark more and more.
Cook the Book: 'The Tex-Mex Cookbook'
4 cup cheese dip
1 cup cheese (cheddar usually),
1 cup cream cheese,
1 cup chopped onion,
1 cup mayo.
Mix together in food processor and then cook in the oven at 400-450 degrees until brown on top (about 15-20 min).
Yum!
Cook the Book: 'Whole Grains: Every Day, Every Way'
Does oatmeal count? If so I eat it every day. My wife is also looking to modify the pancake recipe in Molly Katzen's "Pretend Soup" Cookbook to include whole grain flour.
Cook the Book: 'Techniques of Healthy Cooking'
Rice and beans with a salsa. Yum.
The Best Worst Restaurant Names Ever
In Owego, NY there was a restaurant called Shards. All I could think of when I heard the name was shards of glass. I spoke to the woman who owned it where she got the name from and she said it was the name of her dog. She had always wanted to open a restaurant and finally did. Well as you may expect the restaurant didn't last.
Someone else bought the place and did such great business that they had to move because they could expand the site. It now sits empty. :(
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Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@wookie- I'm pretty sure that by now I have the smells of kimchi and garlic radiating out of my pores. My fellow American co-workers spend tons of money buying Western food but I say forget that, if I wanted to eat hamburgers and drink Budweiser, I would've stayed home and paid a lot less. I'm sure I've eaten both our shares of dukbukki and dolsot bibimbap by now. The little lady that owns the restaurant I always go to has started giving me a mandu appetizer for free I guess.
I saw that pizza in a cone thing! I'm going to go back and grab one sometime, but I think that there should be a SE post (or series of them!) on all the street/fast food here. From the dukbukki, to the fishcake on a stick, the chicken/pork/beef on a stick, watermelon/pineapple/honeydew/cantelope, corn on a stick, the roasted chesnuts, the sweet potatoes (I love seeing the wood oven carts!), the rotisserie chicken trucks, the dumpling bars, I could keep going...
Oh and I think there was something about bulgogi burgers. I wonder if they come with cheese....
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
Every fall I send out many pounds of hand-harvested and parched Minnesota WIld RIce to old friends because the stuff generally available in stores bears no resemblence to the genuine article.
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
My mom and I would send Tastycake products to our friends and family in Florida. Some friends also wanted certain kind of Gingersnaps from our way.
But for me, I have a good friend that's from England-can't wait to go there someday-and I make her bring me back a few items when she visits there. Of utmost importance is Chocolate. My god the Chocolate from there is so good. I will kill someone if they come near my English Chocolate. Another thing I want her to bring me is tea.:) Love the tea there as well. Sooo delish.
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
Many years ago when I was stuck in Los Angeles (for 18 years!) my mom used to send me "care packages" filled with such local (Maryland) delicacies as Old Bay seasoning, Attman's corned beef (never lean!) and Goetze's Caramel Creams. We discovered that soft-shell carbs, belly lox and Berger cookies don't travel too well!! Oh, BTW whoizzit, I love boiled peanuts and used to have them sent from South Carolina!
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@machellebelle--Oh the East Coasters are there! It would be so cool if you ran into my friends. I hope you find East Coasters soon, BUT in the meantime eat plenty of bebimbap and kalbi and jjajangmyun and jjamp-pong and dokbokkee for me!!! OH and seafood pancakes! You're in my motherland--eat for me and report back!
Oh, and have you seen some of the crazy Korean/American fastfood hybrids that SE has posted?
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
Several years ago we moved to Michigan from Savannah, GA and stayed about 6 years. It was fun realizing the differences in food items that were and weren't available regionally. One time, I ordered a case of pickled peaches since none of the stores up there had even HEARD of such a thing. Whenever we'd return from a trip South, I'd return with coolers of ripe tomatoes and quarts of frozen Brunswick stew and local shrimp. We always brought back green peanuts in season, since "boiled peanuts" were another unheard-of food group (sound familiar, Matt & Ted Lee?), and had friends who regularly shipped stone-ground grits and our favorite BBQ sauces. There's nothing like a taste of home when you're living somewhere else, that's for sure!
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@wookie- no way! That's pretty awesome, Richmond isn't that far from home -- I'm from Williamsburg :o) I've only really met a few East Coasters here, mainly West Coasters, Canadians, Aussies, Brits and Kiwis. I know there has to be more than just me!
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@wellred: I feel your pain. I moved from MA to Cincinnati so I am the one asking for things like linguica, ah-so sauce, portuguese muffins, Polar Seltzer and Cranberry Lime Soda, fresh seafood etc. And I miss the Harvard/Porter square area something fierce! (I had a rent controlled apartment for 4 years that was a 10 min. walk to Harvard Square)
No one that I know wants anything from Cincinnati, except maybe buckeyes and I can make those.
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@BaHa--OK, I'm gonna order some. Ya'll can guess what my next post will be about.
Do you send local treats to homesick family and friends?
@wookie--Yes, they are THAT good. Even the FedEx man swoons when delivering to my parents.
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