Archive for the 'News' Category
In Which I Solve This Ground Beef E.Coli Problem for Good
Friday, October 23rd, 2009It started a couple of weeks ago, subtly, just before waking up on a rainy Saturday morning. I couldn’t tell what it was, exactly, but I didn’t feel quite right. My skin seemed to be a little sensitive to my bedsheets, and I felt a little flushed. Not long after, my joints and muscles [...]
Meat and Booze: The Recipe for Happiness?
Friday, October 9th, 2009A friend recently forwarded me the above infographic, a nifty little chart illustrating some of the larger and smaller meat consumers in the world, and exactly how much animal flesh we devour (or shy away from) per capita every year. According to the fine folks at GOOD: An increase in the consumption of meat is [...]
How Green Is Your Meat?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Of all the boogeymen at the root of the massive global climate change problem, none is more troubling in the hearts of the meat-loving masses than agriculture. The animals we so dearly love to feast upon (and you know I do) are spewing more methane into the atmosphere than ever before, and with the global rise in [...]
How Green Is Your Meat?
Thursday, August 20th, 2009Of all the boogeymen at the root of the massive global climate change problem, none is more troubling in the hearts of the meat-loving masses than agriculture. The animals we so dearly love to feast upon (and you know I do) are spewing more methane into the atmosphere than ever before, and with the global rise in [...]
You Are Going To Die…Would You Like To Hear About Our Specials?
Friday, August 14th, 2009After binging on coverage of the current debate over our health care system and all the insanity it’s wrought, I had a seriously disturbing dream last night. It was that special brand of nightmare you tend to have after you’ve been up way too late with a bottle of Stoli and a hefty edition of [...]
All The President’s Hamburgers
Thursday, June 25th, 2009Recently, the food staff at The Faster Times (or most of us, anyhow) decided that we should all meet up over a nice, long lunch and get to know one another. Now, we being people of certain culinary aesthetics, philosophies, and discernment, you might wonder what cuisine we’d share as we, five ladies and a gentleman, [...]
How Green Is Your Meat?
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009Of all the boogeymen at the root of the massive global climate change problem, none is more troubling in the hearts of the meat-loving masses than agriculture. The animals we so dearly love to feast upon (and you know I do) are spewing more methane into the atmosphere than ever before, and with the global rise in [...]
Back to the Airwaves: TSC talks guinea pigs on LA’s KCRW
Monday, February 2nd, 2009So, if you happened to be in the Los Angeles area a couple of weeks back — specifically on Saturday, January 17th — and you also happen to be a public radio fan, you might have caught a little bit o’ Carnivore fever on KCRW’s “Good Food” program. I had a ball discussing the joys [...]
Today in Meat News
Thursday, October 30th, 2008This (almost) just in from the Associated Press: Spicy pork sausage found in ‘soiled diapers’ McALLEN, Texas (AP) — Customs inspectors scored the makings of a barbecue when a 21-year-old South Texas woman declared several soiled baby diapers at a U.S.-Mexico border crossing. Suspicious of the chunky diapers, inspectors with U.S. Customs and Border Protection [...]
Best Food Writing 2008!
Friday, September 19th, 2008Bourdain, Reichl, Steingarten, Trillin, Waters, Buford, Sokolov…Gold?!?! That’s right, friends, a selection from my book will be included in Best Food Writing 2008, right alongside some of my very favorite food heroes (I’m looking your way, Bud and Tony…). The collection will be published on 10/20, and while you can go ahead and pre-order your [...]
