USDA's New Food Safety Campaign
Poppy new campaign encouraging food safety when cooking at home, an issue I am always quick to point out. Interesting, however, is there’s no component relating to where you source ingredients.
Source: thekitchn.com
Palin Vs. Bachmann: A Poem-Off
“Winning”
Every time I’ve run for office,
People have said, “She’ll never win.”
Every time, we’ve been able to do it.
My very first race was the school board.
That one we didn’t win.
The Joys and Trials of Dating a Chef
Rewind to our third date, a year and a half ago. Micky invited me to his apartment in Queens to make dinner. I brought the wine and DJ’ed his stereo, and asked if I could help cook.
“No,” he said, “I got it,” his laser focus directed at the cutting board.
I remember the agnolotti he made for us—neat rows of dough filled with sweet San Marzanos. I watched him as he pinched the eggy pasta off into identical satchels, twisting the ends.
He saw I was interested. “Do you want to make some?”
“Definitely!” But I didn’t have a practiced hand. My pasta envelopes were lumpy and uneven. I thought they were sort of charming in their messiness. Rustic. He threw my batch into the trash.
He wasn’t mean about it or anything. We were falling in love, and it was a romantic and delicious night. But for a second, I mourned for my inferior, banished little agnolotti.
FDA to unveil food pyramid replacement this thursday
- Is based around the design of a plate, but isn’t a pie chart
- Encourages smaller portions, low-fat dairy, and water instead of sugary drinks
- Is reminiscent of a Rothko painting
- Can’t possibly be worse than the goddamn food pyramid
Treif Victory!
New guidelines released Tuesday by the USDA – just in time for the Memorial Day kickoff of grilling season – recommend that pork be cooked to an internal temperature of 145 degrees, 15 degrees cooler than the previous standard.
Source: thekitchn.com
Netflix streaming is the biggest user of bandwidth in North America
For downstream, it’s bigger than YouTube and HTTP (that’s, you know, most internet content) combined.
