Going Out To Dinner With Food-Loving Friend A Huge Ordeal
Going out to dinner with 41-year-old self-described gourmand David Loomis has become a massive, aggravating ordeal, exasperated friends confirmed Monday. “Once we can finally settle on a restaurant that’s ‘authentic’ enough for Dave, he will pretty much exclusively talk about how certain things are prepared or the chef’s career up until that point rather than have an actual conversation with the people at the table,” said best friend Henry Tan, 39, who has been chastised by Loomis on no fewer than four occasions for mispronouncing the names of ethnic dishes. “Most times, he won’t even let you order what you want, and instead you have to get some weird thing that a particular place is ‘known for’—not that I’ve ever seen Dave served anything that he didn’t have some huge problem with.” Tan added that he thought the traditional Japanese ramen Loomis recently forced him to try after waiting more than two hours for a table at a new restaurant was “pretty good” and not the “bland, pedestrian trainwreck” the intense lover of food described.
(via The Onion)
Killing two birds with one giant, bony fish
I’ve been interested in the potential of the Asian Carp, an invasive fish species that can grow up to 100 pounds and tastes something like tilapia, for sometime. It has spread up the Mississippi River and, if electric migration deterrents fail, could enter the great lakes and decimate local populations of delicious walleye, as well as the livelihood of thousands of freshwater fisherman.
However, despite haute cuisine-level tastings, huge economic potential, and millions of hungry Americans, people are still having trouble making getting this potential windfall into our foodways. The name and associations are a probleml, but one easily remedied: no one wants to cook with rapeseed oil, but people feel fine about sauteing in canola; and the Patagonian Toothfish now has to be protected from overfishing under the moniker of the Chilean Sea Bass. Establishing the processing and distribution systems is another issue: the fish was dropped in canned form to support the Haitian disaster recovery, but American fish processors aren’t keen on filleting the bony beasts and food banks don’t foresee a market for minced chunks of anything, much less a fish most people consider bycatch.
The distinction seems particularly meaningless these days: humble European dishes like Spanish boquerones have come into fashion along with their more formal menu peers; and American chefs are unlocking the potential in creatures like monkfish, an ugly, oily thing that, 20 years ago, was considered a garbage fish suitable only for bait, but has come to be considered such a savory delicacy that even its liver is prized by chefs, nationwide.
So when will the carp be making its big splash? Would you be opposed to eating it?
Student-Run CSA Prickles Fordham Administrators, 86ed
But something tells us one of those reasons is more important than the others […] the food service contracts. The company that holds that contract is none other than Sodexo, the foreign company that will probably be bringing mediocre generic food to Coney Island next summer. Sodexo, you may recall, has been fined by New York State for overcharging New York students and denying black employees promotions. Some people think the company is kind of unscrupulous! And given Sodexo’s track record, you can imagine their reaction to students and faculty getting fresh fruits and vegetables on campus, when they really ought to be buying that stuff in the cafeteria.
A central Pennsylvania man has been charged for a second time with trying to steal a rack of ribs by shoving them down his pants.
Police say that since this is a second offense, the theft charge will be considered a more serious second-degree misdemeanor.
Source: The Huffington Post
HTML and burgers. Together at last.
Final Sale, 20 bucks at Brooklyn Industries
