Category: Food and Drink
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Man Does Not Live by Bread Alone
The recent suicide of Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and 'foodie,' offers food for thought. Why would so apparently successful and well-liked a man suddenly hang himself in his hotel room? One can only speculate on the basis of slender evidence, and it is perhaps morally dubious to do so. On the other hand, not to…
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A Great Hot Sauce Rant from 2013
We must never forget how vicious and stupid leftists are. Enjoy! ………………………. California Regulators Go After Sriracha Hot Sauce Pope Francis recently spoke, quite foolishly, of "unfettered capitalism," as if there is any such thing in the world. A more worthy cynosure of disapprobation is the slide toward unfettered regulation and omni-invasive government spearheaded by…
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Addicted to Food?
This is a re-post (re-entry?) from 9 December 2009. Re-posts are the re-runs of the blogosphere. You don't watch a Twilight Zone or Seinfeld episode only once, do you? The message delivered below is very important and needs be repeated and repeated again. ……………… Can one be addicted to food? If yes, then I am addicted to…
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Why Ray Monk Became a Vegan
Here: And now I have given up eating animal products. What prompted this, however, was not concern for my health. Neither was it concern for animal welfare. It was, rather, something that I had not thought much about before: the devastating environmental effects of animal farming. I don't have to tell my elite readers who…
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Do You Live to Eat?
One who lives to eat is almost as ridiculous as one who drives a car to pump gas into its tank. In both cases a vehicle; in both cases fuel; in both cases means-end confusion.
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Hara Hachi Bu
Japanese. Eat until you are 80% full. Then stop. Excellent advice, Confucian in origin according to Wikipedia.
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Is Beef Food?
Beef is the flesh of a formerly sentient being, a dead cow. And of course beef is edible. For present purposes, to be edible is to be ingestible by mastication, swallowing, etc., non-poisonous, and sufficiently nutritious to sustain human life. But is everything that is edible food? Obviously not: your pets and your children are…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Coffee
October 1st is International Coffee Day. Herewith, some tunes in 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 equal parts of Tequila and Campari with a Fat Tire Fat Funk Ale as chaser. Ella Mae Morse, Forty Cups of Coffee…
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Cultural Appropriation
Let's make a deal. We'll stop appropriating your food when you stop appropriating our mathematics, science, technology, and high culture generally including our superior political arrangements, not to mention our superior methods of cooking food. Do we have a deal? If not then STFU. Related articles A is A: Monism Refuted On Books and…
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Bill de Blasio Goes After Chick-Fil-A
There was a dust-up back in 2012 over Chick-Fil-A. But now the company is back in the news because of an attack by the leftist mayor of NYC, Bozo de Blasio. Story here. You can do your bit in countering these totalitarian bastards by observing my maxim, 'No day without political incorrectness.' Each day…
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The Jean-Paul Sartre Cookbook
You probably knew that Elizabeth Warren, aka Fauxcahontas, contributed recipes to the cookbook, Pow Wow Chow. You might even know that some have alleged that these recipes were plagiarized by the Indian maiden. But I'll bet you don't know that Jean-Paul Sartre worked on a cookbook. Another reason why you need to read my blog.…
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Saturday Night at the Oldies: Christmas Tunes
Merry Christmas everybody. Pour yourself a drink, and enjoy. Me, I'm nursing a Boulevardier. It's a Negroni with cojones: swap out the gin for bourbon. One ounce bourbon, one ounce sweet vermouth, one ounce Campari, straight up or on the rocks, with a twist of orange. A serious libation. The vermouth rosso contests the harshness…
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No Idea Too Loony for a Liberal
The latest 'addictive' substance: cheese! Cheese really is crack! (HT: KBJ) Related: The Case for Nicotine
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The Foolish Suggestion of Starbuck’s Chief Executive Officer
Starbuck's CEO, Howard Schultz, wants his baristas to write "Race Together" on coffee cups to facilitate a conversation about race between baristas and customers and presumably also among customers. Now this is profoundly stupid — assuming it is not just a cynical try at boosting sales. I'll be charitable and assume the former. Anyone who…
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The Pot Belly
The pot belly is an outer sign of an inner lack of self-discipline. We should be grateful that our sexual excesses do not have a corresponding physical manifestation.