Gangster of Food

I read this article the other day by a real nice sounding lady named Charlotte Allen. She wrote a piece in the LA Times called: “Keep Your Self Righteous Fingers Off My Processed Food”, which is a real mouthful of a title. Maybe she could have said something like: “Please Refrain From Your Gastronomic Sanctimony”. [...]

Dear Delusional Right Wing Zealot,
In your righteous zeal to condemn anyone, no matter how poor, how desperate or hopelessly victimized as a serious threat to the security and wealth of our great nation, you have overlooked one obvious fact: your children are lazy, fantastically lazy. Not just your children, all American children raised on the [...]

So I finally saw that movie “Food Inc.” and I really wasn’t expecting much. So Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan and Joel Salatin get interviewed by some foodie neophyte and then they all sit around and talk about local food and organics and how bad The Man is and stuff. Like the food movement for [...]

Another thing that’s real hip is offal. Well, hip in the, “I had some at Babbo” sense. Not hip in the, “come on over, I got some kidneys on the Brinkman and some Valpolicella in the cellar” sort of sense. That is to say that, for the very, very intrepid foodie, offal is okay if [...]