Linky Friday No. 61
It’s Linky Friday and now you have a way to malinger productivity while reading random links embedded in wry comments that are only funny after you read the articles!
Tagged: food
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet Cooking School: Introduction [Updated]
In which we take a peek at an upcoming series that will teach the seven cooking skills you need to know in order to make great, healthy food on a budget.
Oleaginous Abundance
This appears to be the trendy item to have in your kitchen this season. But, what to do with it?
How To: Make Meatballs
(Please note: if photos of raw meat turn your stomach, this isn’t going to go well for you.) No food makes me happier than spaghetti with red sauce. I recognize in a modern world...
Sandwiches, cont.
In preparing for my recent instructional guide on sandwich making, I asked the MD crowd whether a hot dog qualified. Responses were mixed. Included in the conversation were whether burritos ought be classified as...
How To Make a Sandwich
Now, it’d be foolish of me to declare that there is a right way to make a sandwich, that I have discovered it, and that you all ought to accept my word as gospel....
Gastrodestination Portland
To the left is a meal I had in Portland, Oregon this weekend. It was not the best meal I had. But it was the gayest. (Read more at NaPP…) Burt Likko is the...
Pork and Pickles
~by M.A. Since some of the Gents on the Masthead have shared their cooking treats with us, I’ve decided to pass on a little cheap-eating trick I discovered about four years ago. There’s really...
As American as Apple Pie
by Zic The request for instructions on pie crust challenged me. It’s so easy to do. And so difficult to explain; for it’s all in the touch, the fingers, a delicate thing, stroking butterfly...
The Cheap-Ass Gourmet Cookbook Shelf
As most of you know by now, one of my on-going projects here is the Cheap-Ass Gourmet series. The purpose of the Cheap-Ass posts is to provide a starting point for readers who are...
Paul Ryan Strikes Again: The Reihan Salam Edition
Reihan Salam is, best as I can tell, the smartest right-wing pundit of his generation. He also seems, by and large, to be a decent guy. He’s not especially vitriolic or militant and he...
Thoughts From Travelworld
It’s odd, really, how much travel I’ve been doing recently. I went nearly a year without any business travel and now it seems like every other day I’m away from home, in a hotel...
The Importance of Farm Subsidies
It’s almost that time of year. Farmers around the country are buying seed and other supplies, getting their equipment in working order. Last year was a boom year for agriculture and this year is...
What Is Welfare For?
Writing over at The New Inquiry, Ned Resnikoff asks the Left to think a little more concretely about what it means to fetishize, as most have during the Great Recession, jobs qua jobs. Using...
Gripes
I’m not feeling super-motivated to write about politics these days – the two debates and the job speech over the last couple weeks have left me too exhausted to even bother – so instead...
In defense of sandwiches; or, Rise of the Bread Tories
“Surely, a loaf of bread is the centre of the parable of life” ~ yet more G.K. Chesterton I do love a good sandwich. Indeed, there are few things I love more than a...
Culinary Mash-ups
DC’s newest foodie innovation: serving Mexican and Vietnamese fast food out of the same restaurant. My ideal mash-up would involve some combination of brew pubs and hookah bars.
What should I do (with all of this fruit)?
So, I went blackberry picking this weekend, and now I have an unreasonable number of blackberries in my fridge. I made a cobbler last night – and I intend to make another – but...
the omnivore’s delusion
Blake Hurst takes the “agri-intellectuals” to task. I think he does make quite a few good points. I’m not an agri-intellectual myself, nor do I know a great deal about food in general beyond...
