Diamond Jim Brady

 

 

A story of "Diamond" Jim Brady, a glutton of Olympic proportions, and a dish he particularly liked.

 eating_animals

A response to the Last Poultry Farmer

 

chef Grant Achatz

 

 

An extraordinary true story. Hell, even just what the guy cooked is enough to make your eyes boing forward.

eatfood1

If we truly are what we eat, I’d rather be a curvy little Beet or a complicated, layered Artichoke than an over-processed, highly packaged, substance less, edible product. How ‘bout you?

Peasant Bread

 

Making bread from scratch is easier than you think. Add some herbs and sundried tomatoes - you'll be moaning with bliss.

"sanit-grasp" - opening a door with a wrist

 

How filthy is your apartment, or the food you eat? How clean does cleaning your place make it? Do you really want to know?

Quinoa, red bean and walnut burger

 

Veggie burgers seem to come from two places: restaurants and supermarket freezers. But you can make them from whole ingredients, and it's easy. And goddam delicious.

authors of Animal Vegetable Miracle

 

This is a brief excerpt from Animal Vegetable Miracle: A Year of Food Life, by Barbara Kingsolver, Steven L Hopp and Camille Kingsolver.

lots of raw meat

This isn't a rhetorical proposition. Petri-dish meat exists now. It should be available in your local supermarket by next Wednesday. Well, maybe not. But they're working on it.

strawberry crumbleIt's berry season. My girlfriend made crumble out of a batch of strawberries my parents picked from a local farm. Here's the recipe.

jamie_oliver

 

The growth of the post-industrial food movement continues at a rapid pace. Here are resources to further our understanding of this important transformation. (videos)

 

the-food-of-a-younger-land1

 

Mark Kurlansky writes books about how food has influenced human history. And other stuff. This is a brief appreciation of what he does, in point form.

kale chips

Kale Chips - the least likely snack you'd expect to be 100% goddam delicious