Posts tagged food
“ Step 3: Now you are ready to tendorize the side of the steak that you have been working on. Take your fork and jab the steak with it. Don’t jab it so hard that it gets stuck in the steak, though. Keep tendorizing the steak until it is like pudding. Make sure it stays together, though.”
Blue Bottle coffee and Perbacco cured meats on the roof of SFMOMA last night.
I had never heard of spreadable salami until last night, but I’ve already decided I can’t live without it.
State warns Bay Area bars not to infuse drinks
Mixing elaborate drinks - say, muddling mint leaves in mojitos - and serving them immediately is OK. But, the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents said, Bourbon and Branch was changing the character of the booze by allowing it to mature on the shelf - “rectification” that is illegal without a special license.
And by “special license,” they mean “cash money.” This city has directed the focus of their law books away from public welfare and asked them to fix their bottom line.
This is absurd and should be fought. Using irrelevant laws to raise funds is what this country was founded against. Hell, the cocktail was even born in the US when the British started taxing beer.
Europe’s alcohol belts.
“This map shows Europe dominated by three so-called ‘alcohol belts’, the northernmost one for distilled spirits, a middle one for beer and the southernmost one for wine. Each one’s existence and extension is determined by a mix of culture and agriculture.” (via Strange Maps)
Cultivating Failure - The Atlantic
My reaction when first I came across this article: “Another piece taking down Alice Waters bwahahahahaha- oh, fuck. Caitlin Flanagan wrote it.”
She’s so stupid and awful. Her argument against in-school gardening programs is quite racist (Mexican kids have to farm anyway!…What? And…in the Berkeley school district?). And then, to make her point that urban areas are juuuust fine on the grocery store front, she goes to a Ralph’s in LA and explains that she bought corn and state-grown grapes and nectarines. Which means she was there in August. August, California, where local produce can be grown. Caitlin, honey? Is this the norm?
I cannot stand people who make me side with Alice Waters.
This article drove me mad.
But as much as I wanted to blame Flanagan while reading the piece, she doesn’t really deserve the vitriol. Her mindset, which allows her to paint the ‘immigrant son going to Berkeley only to learn gardening’ as a tragedy, is the very mindset the foodie movement she criticizes aims to disrupt.
Her way of thinking permanently relegates “food work” to lower classes. The local/holistic/organic/whatever food movement aims to help people understand, respect, and cherish the work and human effort that gets food to our table. In doing so, we hope to flatten the class hierarchy around these networks of production. The goal, some might say, is to spur the upper and middle classes to get involved with, pay more for, and pay thoughtfully for their food.
Flanagan only focuses on the actions of people within a class-based apparatus. And in doing so, she ignores the efforts made by people to reform the apparatus itself.
Sous vide’ing a whole fish. (Via Cooking Issues)
The engineer’s guide to drinks. Full PDF here. (Via FlowingData)
