I thought I would take this Friday morning to admonish our readers a little: Bad reader! Bad!
OK, maybe you’re not that bad, but I bet you use way more plastic bags than you should. I know I do, and I’m pretty good about carrying around a canvas shopping bag. Reducing plastic bag waste won’t solve [...]
Archive for the ‘Rants’ Category
Bag That Bag
Posted in Rants on August 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The Perils of Plenty
Posted in Philosophy, Rants, tagged contamination, local on June 11, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Is anyone really surprised that a batch of tomatoes contaminated with salmonella has made its way into the food supply? We’ve seen this before, and we’ll see it again. There are plenty of arguments against industrial farming with decent rebuttals to many of them. An indisputable fact about current agribusiness, however, is that sometimes it [...]
Why People Don’t Cook - Reason #1 of 45,524,233
Posted in Home Cooking, Philosophy, Rants on March 7, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I created a “Rants” category for posts as soon as we put this site together, because (1) a good, solid rant is one of my favorite activities and because (2) ranting is probably the number one reason why people start blogs. Commence rant now:
We hear plenty about how Americans are tempted into “convenience foods” and [...]
Mex-Italian Fusion? Ay Dios Mio.
Posted in Rants, Restaurant Reviews on March 5, 2008 | No Comments »
I am reluctant to even start talking about the New York restaurant scene in this blog, because it’s such an abyss and so many people are already writing about it so well, but I want to comment on this one trend that is apparently emerging here, which means that a year from now it will [...]
Claire vs. Buttermilk Biscuits
Posted in Breakfast, Cheap, Home Cooking, Rants, tagged biscuits, debacle on February 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What could be better than a warm, fluffy biscuit right out of the oven? Very, very few things, I imagine. Unfortunately, despite my best efforts, I have yet to replicate this much-fantasized-about scenario with anything other than Pillsbury pre-made biscuits. And, oh, I have made some efforts. In the last two months, I’ve made three [...]
