You are Delicious

Eating in excess can be good, but savoring in scarcity can be great.

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Je me souviens (I remember), the Québec license plates vow. This past weekend, I had the pleasure of visiting the province’s largest city and was left with the question of what, gastronomically speaking, I would remember most from Montréal.
Yes, Casa Tapas, with its rustic sangria pitchers, Spanish-French-English-Italian (and maybe Turkish and German?)-speaking waiter, and roses [...]

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Giant inflatable Corona bottles are friggin’ cool. I’d never dream of wearing a Coca Cola t-shirt or sweatpants that say Abercrombie across the butt, but I wouldn’t mind one of those marketing pieces in my living room. Next time you walk past a liquor store window, seriously take a look.  I think you will marvel [...]

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“‘What am I eating? And where in the world did it come from?’ Not very long ago an eater didn’t need a journalist to answer these questions.”
-Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma

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Consuming mushrooms sautéed with copious amounts of garlic and butter is not simply something you must do before you die; it is an exercise that should be undertaken with much frequency and considerable passion.

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Well, I tried that papadzule recipe from a few posts back. I can’t say I was too impressed. The bright green oil never came out of the ground pumpkin seeds (disappointment!) and the overall taste was kinda blah. Maybe I should have trusted my aversion to pumpkin seeds, which I think began with the large [...]

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Tomato varieties have the darndest names:
Early Girls
Big Boys
Big Beef
Sun Golds
Valley Girls
Green Zebras
Lemon Boys
Brandywines
Romas
Those are just a few, according to an archived farm newsletter, that my CSA has offered. Which wacky association comes up with these? And how can I get on staff?

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Wow. I will need to read Leah Koenig’s posts on various blogs often.
Here’s a sample.
And for more great food news for socially-conscious Jews, check out The Jew and the Carrot. One highlight from this week, especially helpful if you’ve ever traveled in Israel and wondered what was up with that eggs-in-a-bed-of-cooked-tomato stuff (turns out it’s [...]

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Choking Hazard
We should have outgrown
swallowing each other by now.
First comes the choking hazard, then we
want to inhale him/
devour her.
And then? Then we take
spoonful by spoonful
by spoonful
(it seems, for the rest of our days).
But fish bones still get stuck and grown hands clutch.
In the end, the lucky ones
sustain on others’ mouths.
-By Rhea

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“i am watching the sun stumble home in the morning
from a bar on the east side of town
and the coffee is just water dressed in brown”
-Ani Difranco

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