Appetizer Sampler Platter

Hee hee... (4.00 / 2)

Love the KFC piece!

Errrr, actually - let me clarify that.  I love Chef Kurt Michael Friese's Grist column on the KFC ads.  I will have nothing to do with KFC pieces in any other way, shape or form...

:)

Reminds me of something I saw today.  I got off the bus downtown earlier this morning and a bold, bright and colorful sticker on the door of a convenience store on SW 4th caught my eye - it said something like "Fresh foods available here!".

Yeah, right.  "Fresh foods" don't come in packages with 300 word ingredient lists and "expiration dates" well into next decade...

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 19:49:36 PM CST

oh funny (4.00 / 2)

yesterday someone at work said she stopped eating McDonalds when they advertised something like "McNuggets now made with real chicken!" She was like "Well then what were they before?"

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 19:51:21 PM CST

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Heh... (4.00 / 2)

I guess McDonald's decided that phrases like "meat slurry" or "reconstituted, emulsified, mechanically separated meat" wasn't a selling point any longer?

:)

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 19:54:59 PM CST

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do we really believe (4.00 / 3)

that there isn't any salmonella in our compost piles?

It's pretty common stuff.

I made yogurt recently by putting some ultra pasteurized milk in a Salton yogurt maker with a little live yogurt, and it indeed did make yogurt by sometime the next day. You don't even need the yogurt maker, you can do it on top of your television.

If you use regular milk, you have to heat the milk first. 145oF I think.

I can't see cheesecloth being a necessity.  

"If God were to appear to starving people, he would not dare to appear in any other form than food." - Mahatma Gandhi

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by: Miep @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 21:39:00 PM CST

re: salmonella (4.00 / 3)

they thought it got into the peanut butter from bird excrement. Chicken manure is often composted and used as a soil amendment.

I really don't see where Grist is coming from with this. I do think, though, that people need to be careful about what they put on/around vegetables to some extent, not to mention what's pooping on it - if bird shit can have salmonella in it, you'd better be careful about cleaning your spinach. I actually do get grackles hanging around my spinach patch a lot.  

"If God were to appear to starving people, he would not dare to appear in any other form than food." - Mahatma Gandhi

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by: Miep @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 21:47:00 PM CST

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good call nt (4.00 / 1)

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 22:02:03 PM CST

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Where do you live? (4.00 / 2)

Nothing creepy, just wondering because you're always complaining about not having a dairy farm nearby.

Vote for yourself at www.ni4d.us!

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by: rossl @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 21:56:05 PM CST

San Diego (4.00 / 1)

we've got all the food anyone might dream of, except dairy.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 21:59:22 PM CST

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Moose? (4.00 / 1)

;-P

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 22:25:12 PM CST

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but we have mousse (4.00 / 1)

http://www.extraordinarydesser...

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 22:31:08 PM CST

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What's hair got to do with this? (4.00 / 1)

Oh, heh...

;-P

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 23:05:14 PM CST

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Who Woulda Thunk (4.00 / 2)

that I'd have been nearly six months ahead of the LA Times on getting a gastronomic degree in Italy.  Given the drudgery of things here, I'd go off to study food culture and food tourism in a heartbeat now!

And pardon if this has already been addressed elsewhere, but today's New York Times has an article in the dining section, "It's Organic, but Does That Mean It's Safer?".  Honestly, I haven't even had time to read it yet, so I can't say whether it's good, bad, or ugly reporting.

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by: The Maven @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 23:13:44 PM CST

I read it earlier... (4.00 / 2)

The closing gives it away -

Emily Wyckoff, who lives in Buffalo, buys local food and cooks from scratch as much as possible. Although she still buys organic milk and organic peanut butter for her three children, the organic label means less to her these days - especially when it comes to processed food in packages like crackers and cookies.

"I want to care, but you have to draw the line," she said.

But the line stops when it comes to basic food safety.

Recently, a sign near the Peter Pan and Skippy at her local grocery store declared that those brands were safe from peanut contamination. There was no similar sign near her regular organic brand.

"I bought the national brand," she said. "Isn't that funny?"

I'm assuming that was in a supermarket, then?  Yeah, because large chain supermarkets have never been known to give preferential treatment, shelf space, displays and special in-store advertising considerations to the giant food manufacturers...

And btw, how do the failings of PCA and a private organic certifier possibly reflect badly upon "buying local food and cooking from scratch"?

Reaching much, Kim Severson and Andrew Martin?

Ironic that they also mention Peter Pan - being that they are the original salmonella peanut butter company, after all...

Bad and biased article, imo.

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by: JayinPortland @ Wed Mar 04, 2009 at 23:33:30 PM CST

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Homemade yogurt is easy and good (4.00 / 1)

especially with homemade granola, fruit from a CSA share etc. My sister gave me a recipe book for yogurt dishes, so hopefully I'll be expanding how I use it. Lots of yummy looking recipes. I use creamline milk (use the same milk for ice cream!) from a local dairy.  

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by: nycstray @ Thu Mar 05, 2009 at 12:28:12 PM CST