Pardus and Livert Discover Gold on the Shores of the Delaware

Just checking in during the busy summer. This weekend was spent with David Livert and his wife at their house on the banks of the Delaware River. Despite beautiful weather for canoeing on Saturday, the rest of the weekend was a series of down pours and fog reminscent of the 1985 floods in Northern California. [...]

Free Range Chicken Family

Left to their own devices, chickens will act like wild birds, build nests in fields, lay eggs and, when they hatch teach the young ones to forage and, I suppose, cultivate their chicken identity. We don’t have a lot of chickens on the farm (maybe a dozen) and all of them live out in the [...]

Vegetarain bones make easy cracking

Cannibals who prefer that their livestock abstain from meat eating apparently know what they are doing.
A joint Australian-Vietnamese study of links between the bones and diet of more than 2,700 people found that vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters
Surely the weaker bones of vegetarians makes it much easier for the anthropophage [...]

Iowa-sciutto

Sky Full of Bacon 10: Prosciutto di Iowa from Michael Gebert on Vimeo.
The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Ratio, A Brief Exegesis

In Ratio, Michael Ruhlman’s latest book and in many of his promotional posts and media appearances he makes an assertion that has raised a lot of objections among reviewers of the book and, to a lesser degree, the cooking public. What he says, in essence, is that if one understands that most fundamental preparations of [...]

Chicken Salad

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Nation of Dunces?

Are enough people stupid enough to cause a decline in pork sales because they are afraid becoming infected with swine flu? Apparently so, which is why American swineherds have lobbied federal officials to refer to the epidemic as an outbreak if H1N1 virus instead of swine flu.
U.S. officials want ’swine’ out of flu name
The best [...]

Balducci’s is like, gone!

I don’t really care that the pretentious overpriced gourmet bloat mart that Balducci’s had become by birth of the naught-naughts is going the way of the passenger pigeon. But it is worth noting that at one time it was a really cool place to buy stuff that you could not get at your local farm [...]

A Light Snack

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Valentines Day Agitprop

Each year during the build up to Valentines Day food writers drag out the same old crap about foods that are alleged to turn us into priapic goats and silt laden venusian rills.
Aspargus and oysters, chocolate and eels, and blah and blah are yanked out of their normal context as ordinary stuff to eat and [...]