Posts Tagged ‘food’
Eat your breakfast…
Yet another study says that skipping breakfast or eating a poor one is bad for you. I’m trying to eat smaller dinners these days, but I’m still not that hungry when I arise in the morning. On the other hand, I love typical breakfast fare — eggs, bacon, sausage, omelettes, frittatas, crust-less quiches — but I prefer eating them at brunch time.
Never mind – I’m having them for breakfast now.
No vegans here…
Not even Hurricane Harvey could persuade Texans to eat the vegetarian fare on offer at this grocery store…
On the menu…
Perhaps on yours, but I am unlikely to dine at any venue featuring even one of these terms. Personally, I tend to find restaurants which include such items snobbish, and the food way over-priced. I mean, why not just say your chicken breasts were simmered in broth with a lovely selection of herbs and spices? Stop attempting to sound sophisticated and elite by using a foreign phrase which translates as “in broth”.
Sadly, too many places are selling the “experience” instead of the actual items for sale. I want to eat at a restaurant which concentrates on the food first, then the service, then the atmosphere. I don’t care if the tablecloth is red-and-white checked oilcloth instead of crisp white linen. If the food is good enough, it can be on mismatched crockery, eaten with mismatched cutlery, and atop a bare wood table. One of the best meals I ever had was at such a place, many years ago, in New Orleans, and there was no menu, you were served what had been cooked that day — fresh seafood and vegetables and homemade bread still warm from the oven.
Beef comeback…
Of course, beef never left my menu. It’s tasty, simple to prepare, very versatile, and now that the price has decreased, quite affordable. There is still a medical bias against beef, despite the extremely cautious retreat on its defects as a food item. In fact, there is still considerable bias against all types of meat, and the food Nazis will simply stamp their feet and says the environment has rendered the item unsafe if they can think of nothing else. Remember that the same junk science responsible for this is being foisted upon you in the climate change/global warming/climate weirdness debate.
D.C. has rats…
I’m speaking of the four-legged variety, though there is certainly an abundance of the two-legged type as well. New York City had a rat population explosion a few years back, and it turned out that so many of the immigrants living there came from cultures where municipal trash collection was a largely unknown experience that most of them did what they had done in their previous homes – threw the trash where they pleased. I have no idea whether D.C. has that many immigrants, but from having lived there for a couple of years, I can tell you that, as in New Orleans, money can purchase blindness and ignorance.
Making school food edible again….
Two of Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction’s least popular initiatives have just been wiped out by the Trump Administration. The first was the meddlesome and totally unpalatable school lunch program, which saw school districts losing money hand over fist because the guidelines produced food which tasted awful, and were slated to become even worse by reducing salt even further, an action of extremely dubious usefulness. The food Nazis are stroking out about the salt study because many of them have careers which depend on faulty science, just like the global warming enthusiasts. Like the cholesterol hysterics, the salt police are relying on junk science, based on even older bad suppositions.
The other recipient of an executive death blow was the “Let Girls Learn” program, started in 2015 by Michelle Obama and meant to facilitate educational opportunities for young girls in developing countries. The program was run by the Peace Corps and U.S. Agency for International Development. CNN reported the program’s termination, but the White House is denying it. CNN is trying to weasel its way out of its bad reporting, but as far as I’m concerned, anything run by the Peace Corps should be shut down for waste and fraud if not outright abuse.
Free in Italy…
Italy is an expensive place to visit, but here are some fun activities which are free. I’ve enjoyed several of these delights myself, and would do so again.
If you’d rather just eat your way across the world sampling desserts, here’s a list of can’t-misses, some of which I have also been lucky enough to enjoy. Greed may be good, but dessert is better!
