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Chefs in stew over foie gras and FrankenFood is OK
Don't try this or you'll be a Fat Bastard too! (uurrrpp)
& Don't be a cute Fat Lesbian either. [via swirlspice]
Shrimpin' an' Pimpin' an' Jokin' an' Smokin', oh my.

Russian Nation Food: (the cuisine of a diaspora)
Why do health-food eaters look ill and pustular?
Why it's cool to be clueless in the kitchen - is it?
FOOD NOT BOMBS: (yeah, it's a zero-sum game)

AYURVEDIC TRAILER TRASH CUISINE: (yummm)
NAKED LUNCH: (body sushi) (yuum yuum) (slurp)
Fido died! Grieve furiously! Then eat Fido! (slurp!)
Edible.Com: (eat it! eat it all! stuff it down!) (urp)

Life is rather like a tin of sardines — we're all of us looking for the key... We roll back the lid of the sardine tin of life, we reveal the sardines, the riches of life therein, and we get them out, we enjoy them. But, you know, there's always a little piece in the corner you can't get out. I wonder — I wonder, is there a little piece in the corner of your life? I know there is in mine. —Alan Bennett

She blathers on about food - should we care? Is she stylish?
Fried brains, scrambled brains, fried brains, eating brains & more.
The Sufi Cookbook & Art Gallery: Yumm. Omm. Aumm. Yumm.
The GarlicGal reeks! And she's proud of it! Hold your nose!

DIY McFood in the privacy of your own home! Get going!
What do you call pasta shaped like that? (No, not 'Luigi'!)
The French know how to eat! (Eat less! 'Specially snails!)
South Beach Diet: just don't get drunk, that totally blows it.

"fortuitarianism: The belief that, since humans have no right to interfere with the natural life cycle of a member of any other species, they should eat only meat from animals that have died accidentally (those that have been run over by trucks, for example) and fruits and vegetables that have become separated from their parent plant either through the action of gravity or some other natural event, such as wind or the process of ripening."
(Allen Keith and Kate Burridge via Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf)

Are Some Meats Unfit To Eat? Unholy! and Vegetarianism Is UnChristian! Damn! and Scripture: FOOD (CLEAN & UNCLEAN) and GLUTTONY and GOD HATES FIGS and also Extreme Vegetarianism Is Deadly! and Taco Bell Buys Votes, Fixes Calif. Recall!

The 3000-year history of alternative medicine in 30 seconds:
1000 BC: "Eat this root."
100 AD: "That root is heathen, don't eat it. Say this prayer."
1800 AD: "That prayer is superstition, don't say it. Drink this snake-oil."
1900 AD: "That snake-oil is phony, don't drink it. Take this pill."
2002 AD: "That pill is artificial, don't take it. Eat this root."

McDonald's is Satanic! and Fat Tastes Too Good! and Study Supports Veggie Diet! and Food Intolerance Booms! and UK Diet Obsessions! and Devour That $50 Steak! and Food Police and the Pseudoscience of Self-Denial!

Krispy Kremes Rule! and Coffee Snobs Drool! and Babette's Feast is Cool! and USAnian Food Sucks! and GM Crops Are Eco-Friendly! and GM Foods Are Healthy! and Bugs Buy Sex With Food! and the [latest diet/food news]

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute our of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes. —Norman Douglas, Siren Land

WE ARE MEAT! NOT METALLIC! and The Hacker's Diet and Masturbator's Diet and Recipe for Jellied Moose Nose and MAN JUICE DIET! and Hmm hmmm cockroach juice... and How much H2O is enuf?

Anorexia Is Not A Diet and Pranic Diets - Stop Eating and MilSpec Snax and Change Diet And Semen Flavor and Wheat Meat Ain't Murder and JunkFood Junkies and find Tres Leches recipes!

"fruitarian: An individual who, for ethical and/or health reasons, declines to eat anything whose gathering or processing is impossible without the killing of animals or plants. Some fruitarians favor a diet of fruit, seeds, nuts, honey, and olive oil; others, who also adhere to the tenets of the veganism movement, forswear the honey on the grounds that it is a stolen nonhuman animal product."   (US Energy Secretaryh Donald Hodel via Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf)

I'm hung like Einstein and smart as a horse! --Anon

  RECENT LIFE CHANGES:  

Maureen just got an official wake-up call: her blood glucose was at a near-diabetic level, and it's time to change her diet and lifestyle NOW. Go over a 125 reading, and ya get to deal with serious medications and dietary restrictions for yer lifetime. No fun; and she's watched her father do that and have no fun; so she's making the changes.

First is more exercise, but since we're in the midst of a heat wave and she's still recovering from chronic damage to her appendages, that hasn't been easy. Fortunately she get to a subsidized physical-therapy gym a twice a week. And fortunately we visit her cousin's nearby swimming pool a few times weekly -- exercise AND heat relief in one wet package.

And then there are the dietary changes, which boil down to: less fat; more protein; and far less carbohydrates, especially sugars and starches. So she's consuming lots of low-fat meats-dairy-fish (no pretense of veg*nism); and eschewing pasta and potatoes (denying her Irish heritage). And I try feeding us the usual slew of veggies.

Some approaches are pretty simple. I can still make risotto, just use a very little rice (steamed a long long time) and a julienned carrot, then mix in the other goodies and a bit of low-fat cheeze. Or use julienned carrot and zucchini (lightly steamed) as pasta, pour the goodies on top, etc. Hmm, better start looking for spaghetti squash too.

But I can't just switch repetoires overnight. I'll do less cooking, Maureen will do more. Hey, we're both retired now, she can handle more of the food prep, especially as her hands are rehabilitated. And I guess we get to toss out a few traditional cookbooks and acquire some new batches of recipes. Oh boy, more cookbooks...