Archive for March, 2006
The Future is Now: Scientists Develop “Healthy Bacon”
Monday, March 27th, 2006Oh, what an age of man is this! In a stunning piece of news picked up simply everywhere, “Researchers say they have created cloned piglets that are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the oil that is prized as being beneficial to the heart.” Thank you to everyone and everyone’s mother and sister and half-uncle twice-removed for [...]
Lunch at the Post House
Saturday, March 25th, 2006To celebrate the sale of THE SHAMELESS CARNIVORE book to Doubleday/Broadway, my editor, avid meat-thusiast she is (who else would buy this book?) took me out for a steak lunch at the famous Post House restaurant in Manhattan. Naturally, I had to bring my camera to capture the moment, and good that I did — [...]
Wabbit Season
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006Of all the meats I enjoy, there is one which, when I bring it up in conversations about food, tends to make sensitive people’s faces drop in abject horror, an expression usually accompanied by the words, “Oh, no!” I am talking, of course, about rabbit – though judging by that expression I might as well have been extolling the [...]
Special Dispensation…for Meat!
Thursday, March 16th, 2006A triumphant moment for Catholic carnivores in New York today. According to the New York Post, the Achdiocese of NYC have granted a one-day “special dispensation” (basically, a break from the rules of the Lenten fast) in order to eat corned beef tomorrow, which is St. Patrick’s day. As you might know, eating meat on [...]
Nothing says “home” like a good chicken asshole
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006Astute carnivore Tina alerted me to this recent article in GQ Magazine by the ever-adventurous Alan Richman, who attempts to find the ten weirdest dishes in New York. This is a fantastic idea, although there are some self-imposed restrictions on this little test of his: first, no eating anything illegal (which leaves out Komodo Dragon, [...]
