Posted in Aminals on Mar 24th, 2009
Don’t you love provocative titles? Words like “pork” from a Jewish vegetarian and “deadly” from just about anyone tend to get attention. So this is the title I chose for my recent post on The Jew and the Carrot. The entry is ostensibly about the story in today’s Post on a study linking meat consumption [...]
Posted in Aminals, Belly laugh on Mar 7th, 2009
“Here’s a trick you might try at home sometime: pick almost any recipe in the ‘Moosewood.’ Now add bacon. You will find that the addition of this decidedly unwholesome ingredient makes the food taste much better.”
-Ariel Levy, comparing the tone of Our Bodies, Ourselves and The Joy of Sex in “Doing It,” a New Yorker [...]
Posted in Aminals, Green living on Jan 12th, 2009
The other day, I brought up the new food movement I see emerging with the likes of Michael Pollan and Sally Fallon Morell with my mom. I mentioned that trailing their keystrokes and bean soaks is a sense that meat is okay.
“Really?” she said. “But how can they say that, when meat eating is responsible [...]
Posted in Aminals on Sep 21st, 2008
Time for some vocabulary! Here are a few terms you might see at, oh, say, the Dupont Circle Farmers’ Market on a Sunday morning:
Herbs de Provence (as in Keswick Creamery feta cheese with…)–An herb mix usually containing thyme, rosemary, marjoram, basil, savory, tarragon, and lavendar.
Gai-lan/kai-lan–Chinese broccoli. It looks a lot like broccoli rabe, broccolini, or [...]
Posted in Aminals on Jul 23rd, 2008
Easter Bunny Syndrome is what one rabbit breader calls the aversion to seeing those furry, long-eared creatures on the menu. It turns out a lot of people (even those who happily eat other meat) have it. To me, this condition is as silly as it sounds. Why object to a meat just because the animal [...]
Posted in Aminals, Current events on May 14th, 2008
“Eat good meat and source it well. Acknowledge where it comes from. And respect the fact that the animal died for your dinner.”
If I were to eat meat, these principles articulated by author Scott Gold are what I would live by. Some thought-provoking books on the omnivorous lifestyle (including Gold’s) came out this spring and the WaPo did [...]
Posted in Aminals, Current events on Feb 27th, 2008
Cheesy, but exciting: Parmesan now has authenticity.
The European Court of Justice ruled yesterday that Parmesan cheese can join the ranks of Champagne and true Balsamic vinegar as a food that’s only legit if it comes from a certain city or region. For Parmesan, the place is Parma, Italy, where folks have been making the popular [...]
The Jew and the Carrot blog is all over this. While I was still marveling at folks who are equally passionate about food and Judaism and delighting in the view of dozens of Chanukah menorahs ablaze at the same time, the Hazon food bloggers were already serving up the events with tang and flare, not [...]
Posted in Aminals, Green living, Philosophizing on Dec 12th, 2007
The other night, I discovered a charred gash as long as my pinky finger and about as thick marring the hardcover spine of a book. The image startled me. How had The Omnivore’s Dilemma received a burn two inches long and half an inch deep, through layers of dustcover and binding, without my noticing? My [...]
Posted in Aminals, Green living on Nov 7th, 2007
… including this here Jew. I’m going to it!
This should be quite interesting. A chance to see the Isabella Freedman Jewish Retreat Center, be in the presence of a shechted goat, and see all sorts of creative foodie presenters.
Yet another great part of the Hazon Food Conference, I just learned, is a photo exhibit. I plan to [...]
