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Shameful Secrets
Quilly, you may be off the hook. A Fuzzy Navel is a shot, and shots, regardless of ingredients, are exempt from the girly-drink classification.— May 4, 2010 7:34 p.m.
Shameful Secrets
I remember when I would eat poultry in Mexico. It was delicious, and nothing like the bland taste of the chicken here. I am happy to hear that Mexico is a nation that respects the source of their food and treats it accordingly. Cotija, that is the cheese!! It is kind of salty, yes? I love that stuff!! It really does enhance the food and is not the main goal. It's so fun to bring the cooking and traditions of different cultures to the table. If there is one thing in this world we all agree on, it is good food.— May 4, 2010 7:32 p.m.
Double Cheapburger
There is nothing worse than your favorite hole in the wall getting shuttered. That does hurt. My condolences.— May 4, 2010 6:42 p.m.
Shameful Secrets
Smart thinking. Do they have many cream-based soups in Mexico? I have not heard of any. As a matter of fact, I notice that when I dine in Mexico, dairy is not nearly as prevalent as it is in the Mexican restaurants here. I prefer your methods of preparation. I don't mind a few crumbles of queso fresco, but it seems like here everything is smothered in cheese. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, depending on what your curing - hunger or something more medicinal. So, did your family like your chowder?— May 4, 2010 6:40 p.m.
Shameful Secrets
I love me some limes, but in chowder?? Ewwwww. Nice to see you, refried.— May 4, 2010 6:19 p.m.
Shameful Secrets
Yes, Refried, they are out there, in the underbelly of the city, combing the back streets for telltale signs of thatched roofs and tiki torches where their people await.... Nan, you scamp!! You startin' early?— May 4, 2010 6:13 p.m.
Double Cheapburger
I rarely eat at restaurants. If I do, I choose small, independent establishments that offer a variety of vegetarian options. I love Mama's on Alabama. That was actually an Ed recommend a few years ago that has turned into one of my favorite places to eat. I joined a food co-op and I try to buy mostly organic. I am very angry that it costs more money to eat a non-f***ed with diet. I am sickened that meat is irradiated to kill deadly toxins that are the result of factory farming animals and that USDA regulations allow a certain amount of fecal matter to be present in our food. I am furious that the quality of the food used for school lunch programs is sub-par to even the low standards used for the fast food industry. Yes, I care, but when I try to engage people in a discussion about food, most take my vegetarianism as a reason to discount what I am talking about, thinking that my love of animals is the sole reason I do not eat animal products. People actually get angry when I try to explain why I drink soy milk. Last night we had dinner at my in-laws. My mother-in-law asked me again for the millionth time "you eat chicken, don't you?". My father-in-law said "well, fish is vegetarian". My MIL made pudding with fat-free milk. I told her I have made it with soy milk and it's really good. This led to the questions as to why I would drink soy milk over "real" milk, because "there is no calcium in it, is there?" And really, the important thing to my MIL is that it's fat-free, not hormone, antibiotic, dairy farm death mill free. Rather than get into it, I just said "I like the taste". My husband has a co-worker whose parents almost disowned her after she became a vegetarian. She was raised in Texas, where meat is a religion and not eating it is akin to treason. Tiki, I think you get the picture. It's exhausting and it is also a matter of personal choice. People think you are a lunatic for eating non-modified vegetarian organic food. The government's involvement in the production of food in our country is something we should all be concerned about. Allowing genetically modified seeds the are resistant to deadly pesticides become the norm is something that everyone should be concerned about, but NO ONE CARES. The few that do are classified as hippie tree-huggers who are trying to stop the good ol' American traditions of a delicious corn-fed, well-marbled steak. If anyone followed that steak to its origins, I can guarantee you they would not eat it. I have followed it. Seeing downed cows being dragged by hooks to the slaughter floor is the most horrifying thing anyone could witness and after seeing that I could not condone the eating of beef or any other animal brutalized in such a way for what we refer to as "dinner".— May 4, 2010 8:32 a.m.
Stick Figure brings sweet finish to Farmer's Market set
Check out the original. I think you'll like it.— May 3, 2010 8:25 p.m.
Double Cheapburger
I hope so. These corporations are powerful and fight the little guys that are trying to make steps in the right direction. Monsanto is the bully in the playground. http://www.organicconsumers.org/monlink.cfm Corn production is tied into government subsidies that keep farmers in a welfare state. The big corporations make considerable donations to politions that support the dairy and cattle industries. It's all a big, sick mess that all boils down to money. Nutrition is not even a factor in the production of food in our country. Big agriculture is even fighting soy milk makers, challenging them over the use of the word "milk" in their product names. And big corporations are jumping on the organic bandwagon, and in their attempt to produce "organic" products are trying to water down the strict requirements necessary to label a food organic. They want a certain "allowable" percentage of the food to be non-organic, which would be essentially the pesticides used to grow the otherwise "organic" crop. Sick, sick, sick. That is terrible that they are closing down the Ralphs. Wal-Marts tend to have that effect on certain communities.— May 3, 2010 1:57 p.m.
Double Cheapburger
Yes, Tiki, I've read about that. The diet that farm-raised fish eat completely negates any health benefits derived from eating fish. It's turns it into cheap fish, so you can eat more of it. Again, promoting the vicious cycle of "you can afford to eat meat and fish everyday, at every meal". Unfortunately, none of this fish or meat even closely resembles wild fish and free-range beef. All over Europe, the pastures are full of animals grazing. Here, the pastures are full of corn, designed to become feed for livestock held in virtual torture chambers, sickened by this diet and given hormones to hasten their growth and antibiotics to combat the sickness that ensues when a ruminant is forced to eat an unnatural diet. And, yes, superior "corn-fed" beef is made-up nonsense. It just makes the beef more fatty and produces greater amounts of meat per head of cattle, enriching the cattle industry at the expense of these poor sickened creatures.— May 3, 2010 10:59 a.m.