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Archive for April, 2009

are you kidding me?

Posted in general, tagged on April 29, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Apparently living under the belief that the human-swine-bird flu strain that’s sweepin’ the globe travels by collective unconscious or some other such crap, Egypt has decided to slaughter all its pigs. Some farmers have refused to cooperate, and Health Ministry workers have thus far left without carrying out orders in those cases. By the way, there [...]

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organic, when it’s really worth it

Posted in general, tagged , on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here’s part of our haul from the farmers market: rainbow chard (just the stems here) and spring onion with garlic—I cooked this a bit before adding the chopped-up leaves. The colors—and flavor—are amazing. I’ve only had chard a few times, all organic, and I don’t see myself trying anything but. There are some things I [...]

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where’s the soba?

Posted in recipes on April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »

First and foremost, the noodles in yakisoba are not soba. Just get over it and you’ll be fine. I struggled with this for quite some time, then I did some research and came to accept it as a convention. The world has bigger problems. We used to get yakisoba at this little Japanese place downtown when [...]

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just scrape it off

Posted in general on April 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »

All my life I’ve heard “Just scrape it off” whenever a restaurant screwed up my very clearly specified order. Mayo and cheese were the biggest offenders. Then there was “Pick it off,” in the case of sausage or pepperoni on the communal pizza. I pretty much always refused, preferring to go hungry. And today I [...]

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nurture

Posted in general on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »

  I originally wrote about a news story (about the Bronx Zoo) that pissed me off and the embedded suggested link to a story (about glowing cloned puppies) that pissed me off even more, but I deleted it. It was super negative and ranty and it’d be more preaching to the choir. Instead I’m writing about [...]

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