Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Food and Drink

  • What is Wrong with Gluttony?

    An earlier post addressed the nature of gluttony.  One important point to emerge was that gluttony cannot be identified with the consumption of excessive amounts of food or drink. But what is wrong with it? There are the worldling's reasons to avoid gluttony and there is no need to review them: the aesthetic reasons, the…

  • What is Gluttony?

    This just over the transom from a reader: I like food. From the time that I was in the food and beverage industry, I found much of it a delight. There was a beauty to the craftsmanship of creating and serving food and drink. One of my very favorite things to do is to cook…

  • Quick Eggplant Parmigiana

    To make it right is a royal PITA. First I make a killer sauce from scratch, a Bolognese or something pork-based.  That's plenty of work right there.  Then I cut an eggplant lengthwise, run the slices through egg wash, bread 'em and fry 'em in olive oil.  Extra virgin, of course.  Why monkey with anything…

  • 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 presumably well-meaning liberal-fascist nanny-staters. You know things are getting bad when they come after your hot sauce.  An Asian…

  • Pasta Linked to Depression?

    This has to be nonsense.  But it is not a complete waste inasmuch as it reminds me of my good old post, a real  'keeper,' The Seven Deadly Sins of Pasta. Related articles 'Redskin' Offensive? What About 'Guinea Pig'? Compensation for Decline

  • Soda Jerk Bloomberg

    Mayor Bloomberg has been slapped down by the courts once again.   So not all news is bad. Malcolm Pollack in "Sugar Daddy"  gets it exactly right: The issue here is personal responsibility. Implicit in this ban is the idea that it is the proper role of the State to intervene in the choices of its…

  • The ‘No Spin’ Zone is Gluten-Free!

    Here. And so is my blog!

  • This Blog is Gluten-Free!

    Food faddism is a fascinating phenomenon.  I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss.  Maybe it does.  But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries or the loss of his mortal anus to colorectal cancer?  On…

  • 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…

  • Of Food and Philosophy

    JH writes,   I'm curious as to when you eat breakfast in relation to when you do your early morning studying, meditating, hiking, or running.  I know you've mentioned a few times that you've done these activities before meeting folks for breakfast, so I am curious to know if eating affects your mental and/or spiritual…

  • A Slap Down for the Food Fascists

    That nanny-state nincompoop, Mayor Bloomberg, had his preternaturally risible limit anent large sodas struck down by a NY judge.  I have more to say in Feel-Good Liberalism, High Capacity Magazines and High Capacity Soft Drink Containers. What fools these liberals be!  

  • Paleo or Low Fat?

    Neither.  I am told that the consumption of paleolithic vittles conduces to weight loss.  Maybe it does.  But I say unto you: What doth it profit a man to lose weight if he suffereth the clogging of his arteries?  On the other hand, you are not going to take away my olive oil and nuts.…

  • Farrell in Flagstaff

      It was my pleasure to meet science writer and long-time reader and friend of MavPhil, John Farrell, in Flagstaff Friday evening.  He was in town for a conference on the origins of the expanding universe, as he reports in Forbes here.  Flag is a lovely dorf sitting at 7,000 feet amongst the pines and…

  • Living 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.

  • First They Came for My Chicken Sandwich . . .

    Here.  I have honestly never eaten a Chick-Fil-A sandwich.  So tomorrow I am going to try one.  This is in keeping with my maxim, 'No day without political incorrectness.'  Each day you must engage in one or more politically incorrect acts.  Some suggestions: Smoke a cigar Use standard English Practice with a firearm Read the Bible…