Posts tagged food
Zombie luau gift.. added black raspberry jam and a cherry laffy taffy
Eyes by monstercloset.com
Amazing detail shots.
Use plastic bottles to completely and safely seal food bags.
This is one of those things where part of me is like “Uh, are twist ties causing that much landfill waste?,” but a bigger part of me wants to run downstairs and DO THIS RIGHT NOW.
There is an even bigger part of me, however, that knows that if I did it, my wife would give me one of those looks, you know, one of those looks that says not only, “You are the biggest fucking idiot I’ve ever met,” but also, “You are turning into your father, you know that guy that trims his bread bags so that he doesn’t have this large tail of plastic as the loaf gets smaller and who folds his stash of plastic grocery bags into neat little triangles.”
So.
Dear Ms. Gustafson —
I was alerted to your blog post on ‘meat glue’ by a Google News alert. You write:
The current outcry is just another example of consumers not understanding what goes into their food, according to Dr. Michael Batz, a food safety researcher at the University of Florida Emerging Pathogens Institute. People simply don’t know what they are eating and it makes them nervous.
Two things:
1. I do not have a PhD.
2. I did not say what you say I said.
All you have to do to know I did not say this is to check the transcript. Oh, right, there is no transcript. Because we did not speak at all.
“Many people are concerned about the health effects associated with the consumption of GMOs. Elephant Nose was designed to identify the state of foods (GMO/natural, fresh/stale, and so on) using artificial nose technology. Information about the food is displayed on the device’s LCD panel. Elephant Nose is portable and can thus be used at the grocery store or market, as well as at home.”
I guess all you need these days to win a “design concept” contest is an impossible idea executed as a personal massager. Does this thing vibrate when it “smells” bullshit? Just as this magic wand is able to sniff the diff between GMO and organic corn, my newly “designed” t-shirt increases your intelligence and eliminates racism.
Yesterday, I tweeted in response to some NPR reporter banter that preceded a story on E. coli O157:H7:
NPR reporter just falsely stated that you should wash pre-washed bagged leafy greens. Hey guys, thanks for misinforming America!
— Michael Batz (@mbbatz) April 19, 2012
Today, they posted a correction and in it, they quoted my tweet (though anonymously and without a link… really guys?)
Boom!
Running a restaurant is like running a giant daycare. After twenty-two years in the business, I still run to touch the hands of young cooks coming out of the restroom to see if they’re moist. So often, they’re not. So at forty-one years old I have to tell kids to wash their hands after they pee-pee.
It eats away at my faith in humanity. Do they wear the same pair of underwear for two days? Do they meticulously change the sheets on their bed like I do?
Cooking is about cleaning, cleaning, and cleaning to make sure nobody’s gonna die. You use soap. You use bleach and cold water (never hot water). The cleanliness of the toilet in your restaurant says everything.
” Dave McMillan, co-owner of Joe Beef and Liverpool House in Montreal, and my new favorite chef, quoted in Lucky Peach issue 3Food’s Biggest Scam: The Great Kobe Beef Lie - Forbes
I abhor our nation’s approach to regulating food marketing, or should I say, the lack thereof.
Scott Hurd has a new blog. It should be good. Scott has been around and knows a lot.
He and I don’t agree on everything, but dude is going to bring the science.
For reals.
Yeah, so I’ve had a few beers. Sue me.
He. Is. EVERYWHERE!
Seriously, I have no idea how he does it all.
How to Wash a Chicken
Imagine if folks put this much energy into washing off the Salmonella.
LIFEHACK TIP: Use this three bucket method to make yourself presentable for conference talks. A little glycerin goes a long way to bring out that shine!
via swiss miss
For our newest episode, Radiolabber Tim Howard visited Rutgers University’s famous fistulated cow, Lily. Click the photo to see more, and check out Guts to hear Mary Roach explain why anyone would want to reach inside a cow.
I know it sounds gross, but I’d love to shove my arm through fistulated cow’s cannula to feel up its rumen. Only 19 steps!
Good advice from Lucky Peach (Taken with instagram)
Sorenne’s school is doing the hatching-chicks-thing in anticipation of Easter (which is a surprisingly big deal in Australia) and I’ve been doing my best Dougie-Downer about handwashing, Salmonella, pestilence and death.
I don’t know what the hell they put in the water in Australia, but Doug needs to bottle some and bring it back for me.
Our zoo has a petting zoo area in it. Makes me nuts. The kid loves it. I walk him through like we’re late for a flight. “Feces, feces, EVERYWHERE!” is what I almost say to him.
