Sheesh! This was supposed to be a good-food, good-news blog. Now all this:
First, as Michael Pollan said at a food symposium at Berkeley a few years ago (E.L.M., thanks for driving), all the country’s bees are sick. So what do we do to pollinate crops? Breed more selectively to make more of the little fellas, even though that can make colonies more vulnerable to disease. Then what? Import some other buzzers from elsewhere, which inevitably leads to the spread of diseases that makes all the bees sick. Mmmk.
Out-of-control growth isn’t only on the producer side. Frigging
Whole Foods is struggling so hard to keep up with a sector it helped create, as well as the customers it carved out for itself against TJ’s and even Safeway that it’s stocking rotten produce at premium prices. You can say the same thing about Home Depot: Piss off enough people and it’ll be painful bringing them back. I’ll take on the five aisles of holistic health crap another day.
At least Frank B had a good time tossing salad in his swanky New York steak-house tour.
UPDATE: The grain market's abuzz, so to speak, over the bee thing.
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Two things to mention: Bruni notes he and his friends were "less susceptible to the scenery than other men might be." To the observant reader, Bruni basically outs himself in this piece.
He also mentions that the strip club brushes steaks with canola oil before broiling and olive oil after. I'm looking forward to trying that.
>Sheesh! This was supposed to be a good-food, good-news blog.
No it wasn't. The discordant, depressing, and distressing are welcome along with the degustatory.
the Journal just had a bitchin' recipe for bone-in steaks, and called for no oil at all.
in fact, the only seasonings that should come between the meat and a dry skillet for a "perfectly cooked" steak, it said, are salt and pepper.
first you sear and then throw in the oven. i cut it out at home and will elaborate later.
so Frank B is gay. tremendo. i still think the strip steaks, if you will, looked incredible.
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