4 posts tagged “food”

I've recently been talking with people about foodiesm and how I despise it; how good food should be a cornerstone of culture, something to take for granted.  We should be raging against the crap we normally see available, not obsessing over exotic ingredients and experiences in some sort of decadent quest for hedonistic satisfaction.  However... this is kind of fun:

50 Foods to Eat Before You Die (as opposed to after?)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/tv_and_radio/50eats_index.shtml

1. Fresh fish
2. Lobster
3. Steak
4. Thai food
5. Chinese food
6. Ice cream
7. Pizza
8. Crab
9. Curry
10. Prawns
11. Moreton Bay Bugs
12. Clam chowder
13. Barbecues
14. Pancakes
15. Pasta
16. Mussels
17. Cheesecake
18. Lamb
19. Cream tea
20. Alligator
21. Oysters
22. Kangaroo
23. Chocolate
24. Sandwiches
25. Greek food
26. Burgers
27. Mexican food
28. Squid
29. American diner breakfast
30. Salmon
31. Venison
32. Guinea pig
33. Shark
34. Sushi
35. Paella
36. Barramundi
37. Reindeer
38. Kebab
39. Scallops
40. Australian meat pie
41. Mango
42. Durian fruit
43. Octopus
44. Ribs
45. Roast beef
46. Tapas
47. Jerk chicken/pork
48. Haggis
49. Caviar
50. Cornish pasty

The entries in orange I have not had.  I do not know what these are:

Barramundi
Moretown Bay Bugs (crawfish?)

I would maybe try Guinea Pig.  I do not want to try Haggis.  I might have had tea with cream in it, is that cream tea?  I would try reindeer, but be more sad about it than I should be.  I feel like I have had durian, but cannot recall the ocassion so am erring on the side of leaving more "to do". 

Check it out via my flickr.  Easy and pretty delicious.

We released "m" the mantid from captivity into the semi-wild garden on the side of the house.  We wanted to raise a few, but ended up only caretaking the one.   As he(? we think ?) became an adult, it seemed grim to continue the imprisonment, with no chance of "socialization" before the spectre of death paid us a visit... so today, with little ceremony, we put him in the garden to taste free-range meals at last (no more of the farm-raised crickets he was used to) and have a fighting chance at starting a family.

 

2.  Harvested a couple vegetables while we were out there.  The garden peaked in June or so, but now the 2nd planting is starting to kick in (tomatoes are just flowering, year-round gardening in SoCal is awesome), and  the cucumbers from the spring planting are still giving us way more than we can use.  Totally organic and totally delicious.  Although actually some of the carrots are a little tough.  Dig the awesome green/yellow stylings of the bell pepper!

All you need to know about what to eat and what not to eat and how to make it.   Its the Joy of Cooking for the new millenium, as well as the old.  By returning to common sense and whole ingredients, we can forget the nightmare of industrialized ersatz food and inhumane animal production as rapidly as possible.  By taking a look backwards at what has sustained humans for many thousands of years, we can possibly discover where we went wrong in the past hundred.  Includes an awesome treatment of lacto-fermentation (think kimchee, sourdough, and natural pickles).