Archive for February, 2006
Red = Fresh, right? Not Necessarily…
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006Oh, those sneaky, sneaky supermarketeers! According to this piece published today in the New York Times, there’s a big flap going on about the redness of store-bought beef. If you’d believe it, some crafty meat packagers figured out that if you keep beef sealed airtight in carbon monoxide, it retains its redness longer, even if [...]
Meat and You: Partners in Freedom
Thursday, February 16th, 2006This amazing clip is from the Simpson’s episode when Lisa becomes a vegetarian, one of my all time favorites. I particularly love the “food chain” as presented here. Nice. Let’s go take a peek at the killing floor!
Literary Carnivores
Friday, February 10th, 2006I just recently found out that in James Joyce’s Ulysses, our introduction to the main character, Leopold Bloom, is as follows: Mr Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls. He liked thick giblet soup, nutty gizzards, a stuffed roast heart, liverslices fried with crustcrumbs, fried hencods’ roes. Most of all [...]
On Vegetarians (Part One)
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006Okay. You may have noticed that I occassionally refer to vegetarians and vegans as “the enemy.” Please know that I do this only for rhetorical effect. Of course, I don’t feel any real animosity towards most vegetarians and vegans. I’ve lived with them, worked with them, and am related to them (my older brother, Colin, [...]
Turducken!
Saturday, February 4th, 2006I was going through some old photos, and I came across this one: the first Turducken my family had. This was a few Thanksgivings ago, long before that bitch Katrina destroyed my family’s home and most of New Orleans. Does that not just look delicious? The wonderful thing about Turducken is that, because it’s three [...]
