Category: Food and Drink
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Soul Food
A Substack sermon.
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Man Does not Live by Bread Alone
Or by bed alone. Top o' the Stack.
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Pasta Puttanesca
Substack latest.
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Coffee
October 1st is International Coffee Day. But we are still in March. So I'm jumping the gun as one might do under the influence. Herewith, some tunes in anticipatory celebration. Not that I'm drinking coffee now: it's a morning and afternoon drink. I am presently partaking of a potent libation consisting of 3/4 Tequila Añejo…
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A Hot Sauce Rant from 2013
A hot (sauce rant) or a (hot sauce) rant? Both. Parentheses matter! Scope matters. All scope distinctions matter. Mind your p's and q's. Discriminate operators and operands. (Am I sending a coded message?) Substack latest. Don't complain about 'old news.' What are you, a Twitterized 'woke' presentist? There is presentism in the philosophy of time…
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Pasta Puttanesca
Pasta Puttanesca is a good Lenten meal for a Friday night despite its being 'in the style of the whore.' Italian la puttana means whore, harlot, slut. Didn't Jesus suffer all to come unto him, even the ladies of the evening? Make it with sardines: 'meatier' than anchovies. Pour some extra virgin olive oil into…
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Hunger and Satiety
You should be hungry before every meal and sated after none.
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Are You Hungry?
Don't let the thought of the pleasures of the table persuade you to eat if you are not hungry. Eat only at meal times, but never because it is meal time. An exception is breakfast for those quitting their domiciles for a sally-forth into a mean world. To leave your house without food in your…
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Do You Drive Your Car to Fill Your Tank?
No? Then why do you live to eat?
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Of Palate and Penis
The control of the one aids in the control of the other, and the control of the other in the control of the one. The Desert Fathers knew this, and enjoined the control of both.
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Food: Medicine, Drug, or Fuel?
In an excess of the ascetic, the author of The Confessions in Book Ten, Chapter 31 recommends taking food as medicine. At the opposite extreme we find those for whom it is a soporific, a sedative, an escape from reality, a drug. The wise tread the middle path: food is fuel. Eat in quantity and…
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Gluttony: Another Sign of Decline
So what can we teach the Muslim world? How to be gluttons? Another sign of decline is the proliferation of food shows, The U. S. of Bacon being one of them. A big fat 'foody' roams the land in quest of diners and dives that put bacon into everything. As something of a trencherman back in the…
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The Seven Deadly Sins of Pasta
Originally posted in April 2005 at my first blog, and then reposted in October 2009 on this site. Time for a repost! Pasta matters! All 'races' thereof: capellini, vermicelli, spaghetti, linguine, fettucine, bucatini, rigatoni, mostaccioli . . . . …………………………… The following are the Seven Deadly Sins pertaining to the cooking and eating of pasta. Infractions…
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The Body: Temple or Amusement Park?
As I noted earlier, the celebrity chef, 'foodie,' and gastro-tourist, Anthony Bourdain, hanged himself in his hotel room recently. I speculated that the man was spiritually adrift. "If Bourdain had a spiritual anchor, would he have so frivolously offed himself, as he apparently did?" When I wrote that I was unaware of the above quotation.…
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The Club Sandwich: Choice of White Supremacists
Nothing is so stupid that some liberal won't maintain it: This week, the [Boston] Globe carried a letter alleging that the club sandwich is ‘rooted in white male privilege’, and that Furst’s encomium proved ‘the power of the patriarchal establishment in the United States’. The author, Anastasia Nicolaou, holds a master of liberal arts in gastronomy from Boston University,…