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"Wife of the Chef" is more bitter than sweet
Courtney Febbroriello fires her sister, dislikes a job applicant because he dresses too nicely, and lies to get a friend into an event at the James Beard House.
In other words, Wife of the Chef is not a happy read. Which is a shame. Because I picked up Wife of the Chef hoping to get some [...]
"wholefood" (sic): It’s heart is in the right place, but it’s just not as helpful as it could be
You may think that the soon-to-be-released book “wholefood (sic): 300 Recipes to Restore, Nourish, and Delight” is vegetarian.
It is not. In fact, the book has plenty of meat recipes.
You might think it is about lower fat or lower calories. As you can see by the food recipe, below, which has everything from sugar to [...]
Yesterday was what you should NOT eat. Today is what you should.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” I included this quotation from the brilliant January 28, 2007 “New York Times Magazine” article entitled Unhappy Meals by Michael Pollan in my post yesterday and promised to provide more details from his article, today.
Which I am doing today.Now, I highly recommend you read the article. But it [...]
The insidious evil of processed food and I’m not even talking about crappy ingredients, insane amounts of processing, and horrendous preservatives
A press release with this heading just hit my in-box, and I am so angry I can barely see straight: “Special Packaging From GPI Takes Oscar Mayer(R) Deli Creations(TM) From Fridge to Mouth in 60 Seconds.”
Why am I infuriated? Because this whole “fridge to mouth” thing is precisely, PRECISELY, what is wrong with processed food.
Let [...]
And now a little food recipe from our Canadian friends: Poutine
So we go to the farmer’s market, innocently picking our way through the swiss chard and asparagus bunches, when suddenly my husband spies cheese curds at a distant cheese stand.
“Ohhh! Cheese curds,” my exceptionally manly husband squeals as he dashes across the market grounds sending old ladies and small children flying hither and yon. “Gimme, [...]
Free knife sharpening and a great (and SAFE) way to get them to the knife sharpening store and back
So the other day, my husband and I were going to Sur La Table to take advantage of their free knife sharpening promotion when it dawned on me that wrapping the knives in a kitchen towel was not good for them, for the towel, and for whomever held those poorly-wrapped knives. There had to be [...]
Holy cow or holy crap? A $1,111 heart-clogger of a meal.
In this day and age, when heart attacks fell adults while obesity plagues children, do we really need a $1,111 “Beef Eaters Dream Dish”? Benjamin SteakTo honor the restaurant owner’s birthday, this New York restaurant is offering a $1,111 meat platter for five consisting of porterhouse, sirloin, filet mignon, chateaubriand and rib eye steaks.
Yes, folks, [...]
The great kale experiment or how you, too, can get more vegetables into your diet and live to tell the tale (and there’s a food recipe, too!)
We went to the farmer’s market the other day, and as I was admiring all the lovely green veg, I decided to buy a few. Two, in fact. One, it turns out, was great and one was not. The rationale: There are so many, many veg out there we know nothing about. We are trying [...]
Five meals, five minutes, five ingredients or less (and, of course, five GREAT food recipes!)
So you get home and need to get dinner on the table. NOW! Yeah, well, I so know that pain.
So I’ve come up with five really fast, really easy, really satisfying meals. But not just any meals (I mean, come on, you ARE, after all, on the Almost Vegetarian blog, m’dear). These are also five [...]
"Cooked" by Jeff Henderson – A terribly bland read in need of serious spicing
Despite the fact that Jeff Henderson, executive chef at the Las Vegas casual dining restaurant Café Bellagio, managed to yank his way out of poverty, through a prison term, and into a career as chef, his book, Cooked: from the Streets to the Stove, from Cocaine to Foie Gras is, alas, a dull, one-dimensional read.From [...]
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