Archive for the 'Beef' Category
What We Talk About When We Talk About Chili
Saturday, March 20th, 2010Scenes like this unfold regularly on stage and screen, usually in hospital or police dramas. Someone in an official uniform, a handsome but somber-faced physician or a dutiful detective, has been tasked with issuing news that no family member ever wants to hear: There has been a horrible tragedy, and nothing will be the same [...]
Bourbon and Barbecue: The Ultimate BFF Pair
Friday, January 8th, 2010There’s a television advertisement I remember from my youth: Two ranch hands are hanging out on the corral, snacking, when one of them, in an inept attempt to mount his steed, flips over the saddle and spills his treat. “My chocolate!” he laments, to which the other counters, “is in my peanut butter!” It’s not [...]
The New Orleans Po-Boy Festival: A Rich Day for a Poor Boy
Friday, December 4th, 2009Over the years, I’ve been implored by a number of earnest do-gooders to become part of their organizations, to join hands, fight the good fight and help make the world a better place. Save Lake Pontchartrain. Save the Wales. Ban the Nukes. Nuke the Wales. Pave Lake Pontchartrain. And so on. But never before has [...]
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 [...]
Hot Dog Day Afternoon
Friday, August 21st, 2009There must be something in the air. Or maybe the water. Whatever it is, we here at The Faster Times food section seem to have gone a little hot dog crazy lately. Take, for instance, Street Foods correspondent Sarah Karnasiewicz’s recent post about the Yankee Hot Dog Trail, in which she muses, “Looking back on [...]
More Spleen, Sir?
Friday, August 7th, 2009As part of the book I published last year, I took part in — and often conducted — a number of meat-themed outings, adventures and experiments. There was the Testicle Festival in Montana (it was hilarious), a day spent helping a young couple on a family farm butcher their cow for the year (it was a lot [...]
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 [...]
Rockin’ the Dog: The Great Hot Dog Cook-off
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008So, this past weekend I decided to try my hand at competitive chef-ery, cooking up a MONSTER dog for the 3rd Annual Great Hot Dog Cook-off. It was a hell of a time, and I must admit, there were some intimidatingly inventive takes on this American classic, ranging from Oaxacan mole dogs to Thanksgiving dogs [...]
Bury me in Barbeque
Monday, July 14th, 2008So it seems I’m not the only dedicated carnivore out there writing and signing songs about my profound love of all things meaty and delicious. These guys do a hell of a job, but I do have to say that, in fact, some of the best BBQ I’ve ever had was in Perdido Key, Florida. [...]
