perhaps a little EVOO…?

So a journalist by the name of David Wallace Foster died yesterday. Hung himself, it seems. Apparently that’s a big deal, though I’ve never heard of the guy. But in his various obits being posted, they keep linking to his apparently famous Consider the Lobster article for Gourmet Magazine. I like lobsters and good journalism, so I read it. And as far as I can recall, I haven’t read a more concise and honest essay on the ethics of eating other animals anywhere. It’s a phenomenal article, without a hint of preachiness or even much of a position, really. Just a meditation on our place in the food chain.

My bad.

I should just stop making steak au poivre. Every time I make it, I light something on fire that shouldn’t be on fire. Tonight it was the exhaust hood above the stove (which, now that it’s all burnt out melted, I see that it actually vented back into the kitchen). Now our whole kitchen is coated in white fire extinguisher dust.

really? really???

party!
popsicle!

I know that some on here are into food and cooking and restaurants, so I figured I’d pose this general question to those people.

Distrito is an amazing restaurant we hit last night on 40th and chestnut. All small tapas dishes. The chef just won Iron Chef on Sunday against Flay, so we went cause he was doing dishes he made in the episode. Of course, they were out of the dish when we got there, but jesus christ. The food was unreal. Easily one of the top 5 best meals I’ve ever had.

And seriously, honestly, no casa-marzu shock factor bullshit: tongue is outfuckignstanding. I’ve never had it before and I was actually wasn’t into ordering it. I thought it would be chewy. But Luke got it and it was unreal; like the most tender cut of rich and fatty beef you’ve ever had. I’m definitely going to learn how to make it.

I was talking to my buddy Luke about this the other day….. I was looking up the Walkmen tour dates to see if they are playing near by (they are not) and clicked on the “reviews” tab. Much to my surprise it isn’t reviews on their music but on the local restaurants they dine in while on tour. http://www.marcata.net/walkmen/ click on ‘reviews’ to get my drift

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i realized i never posted about my trip to chicago a little while back. rachel and i more or less ate the entire city in just a few short days. we, of course, did other things, but food is what i remember most… especially a trip to the BEST HOT DOG restaurant in the world. we ate at some places where i forgot to take pictures, but there are a great deal of food photos here

Ever since my salmonella poisoning by stomach’s been… a bit off. So I’ve been trying to restore it’s natural microbial balance with yogurt, which has been difficult because I hate yogurt. So I went to whole foods and picked up four all-natural, no HFCS, pro-biotic yogurts and have been eating them all week. Read on for reviews and results.