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The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Video of workers abusing cows raises food safety questions – CNN.com

The article says the workers were terminated but I wonder if the real problem of poor oversight is being addressed. The slaughtering process needs to be more transparent. It should be monitored and taped and reviewed regularly by inspectors and when abuses like this are documented , the plant should be shut down until management [...]

Great New Product

Are you wondering what to have for dinner tonight but too bored with the usual offerings from your supermarket HMR case of clammy roast chicken, wiggly-edge lasagna with lipstick red tomato sauce and snot green string bean salad? Wanna really bite down on something that you will be proud to brag out to you homies [...]

Great New Product

Are you wondering what to have for dinner tonight but too bored with the usual offerings from your supermarket HMR case of clammy roast chicken, wiggly-edge lasagna with lipstick red tomato sauce and snot green string bean salad? Wanna really bite down on something that you will be proud to brag out to you homies [...]

Post Pleistocene Eating Blues

I posted the following response to Mark Bittman’s depressing article Rethinking the Meat Guzzler over at Ruhlman.com and figured I’d cross-post it here to give it a bit more play. If you get the sense that I’m more than a little fatigued by the current discussion over the anthropogenic causes of global warming, you’d be [...]

Post Pleistocene Eating Blues

I posted the following response to Mark Bittman’s depressing article Rethinking the Meat Guzzler over at Ruhlman.com and figured I’d cross-post it here to give it a bit more play. If you get the sense that I’m more than a little fatigued by the current discussion over the anthropogenic causes of global warming, you’d be [...]

Gluttonous Rite Survives Without Silverware – New York Times

Now this is what I call a party. Wow. I’d like to see the carbon footprint of this. On second thought, maybe not.
Gluttonous Rite Survives Without Silverware
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

To Know Him is to Eat Him: Here come the Rice Cops

Thanks to reader Robert Martin for sciencing me up about Farmer Direct, a Canadian beef co-operative that was founded, in part, on the assumption that people will eat more beef if they know how it lived and, I assume, died.Hi, I’m Al, I’ll be your food tonight | Macleans.ca – Canada – Features
Worldwide [...]

To Know Him is to Eat Him: Here come the Rice Cops

Thanks to reader Robert Martin for sciencing me up about Farmer Direct, a Canadian beef co-operative that was founded, in part, on the assumption that people will eat more beef if they know how it lived and, I assume, died.Hi, I’m Al, I’ll be your food tonight | Macleans.ca – Canada – Features
Worldwide [...]

Too Many Chiefs

by The Foodist
With all the positive aspects about attending culinary school there are negative ones that should be address as well.
The Culinary Institute of America prizes itself as being the top culinary school in the country. It’s an idea that’s drilled into the heads of the students from the time we arrive on campus until [...]