"Bacon is the candy of meat."

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Hooray! Bittman strikes again!

My favorite NYT food feature has a new edition -- this time Mark Bittman provides us with capsule recipes for 101 seasonal salads. He's become an increasingly passionate advocate for a plant-dominated diet, so I look forward to these mostly-vegan and vegetarian recipes with health and good taste in mind.

Friday, July 17, 2009

Endangered Tomatoes!

This does not bode well for the tomato crop this summer. I have been fussing over my tomato plants for weeks now, and some seem to be doing well, but all it takes, apparently, is for one to go down with the blight, and then the rest may follow rapidly. Farmers are plowing crops under. This may be the time to go buy a case or two of whole peeled canned tomatoes given how prices may jump later. Maybe I will start a tomato hedge fund.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Question of the Day


Why is it that I am constitutionally unable to stop eating Good 'N' Plenty once I start?