The Charcutier’s Best Freind

Bloody curr more or less can say sausages.

Our thanks to Trig for suggesting the post.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Nicholas Kristoff takes up the cause

As the newly released documentary Food Inc. makes its way through the movie theaters of the nation, it seems to be churning up a wake of outrage over the way that food is treated within the black box of the gastro-industrial complex.

Op-Ed Columnist – Lettuce From the Garden, With Worms – NYTimes.com

Here is a trailer for Food Inc.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Corny Movie

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Chefbot

if you chose to watch this, turn off the sound. The soundtrack is terrible.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

This is a hoot

The Dark Side is closer than you think. (Thanks to Trig for bringing this to our attention.)

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Get Ready to be Indignant

Not pissed off enough over how big business has taken over the means of production and distribution of food? Would you like (or do you need) the validation of your belief that the people who have taken charge of feeding the world are more interested in undermining your enslavement than they are in your nutrification?

Then you may want to whet your disaffection and anger with this trailer for the movie Food Inc.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Another tempest in a teapot

Embedded video from CNN Video

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Roast Beef Recipe Circa 1955

Here’s a roast beef recipe that is sure to raise an eyebrow. It’s from comedic genius Gracie Allen. I’ve included a YouTube video of the The George Burns and Allen Show that contains a reference to the recipe @ circa 25 minutes into the show.

FW: Gracies kitchen magic

Gracie Allen’s Classic Recipe for Roast Beef

1 large Roast of beef
1 small Roast of beef

Take the two roasts and put them in the oven.

When the little one burns, the big one is done.

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

This is almost too stupid to print

So far the H1N1 influenza virus has not been found in pigs. But that is not stopping the Egyptian government from slaughtering all of the pigs in Egypt. Their bodies will be burned or buried and the largely poor and Christian population that depends on them for food will have to find something else to eat. Of course, that won’t be too difficult because a large number of the poor who raise pigs are garbage collectors.

Embedded video from CNN Video

The best sauce in the world is hunger.

Ratio This!

See Michael Ruhlman on The Early Show (CBS) as he promotes Ratio, his- to my mind sucessful- first attempt to bring Platonic order to the fundamental preparations of western cooking.

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The best sauce in the world is hunger.