Crawfish, pre-boil
Posts tagged food
Posted 1 year ago
If Facebook, Bon Appetit, Epicurious, Food & Wine, Food Network, Google, Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food, and ADHD had a baby, it would be Foodily. This recipe search engine scours the web for let’s say, “mahi mahi ‘without’ capers” recipes for you. You can share recipes with friends and see who is cooking what to help influence what you make. Pretty nifty, especially if you’re a vegetarian, vegan, or overall foodie!
Pretty neato.
Very cool!
Posted 1 year ago
Poultry Farms That Go Organic Have Significantly Fewer Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria
This is rather amazing, and just another demonstration of how returning to more natural and eco-friendly methods can often yield significantly improved results, and are probably well worth the slight increase in cost.
RCS Highlights:
Antibiotic use in conventional animal food production in the United States has created public health concern because it has been shown to contribute to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can potentially spread to humans.
The study.. is the first to demonstrate lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria on newly organic farms in the US and suggests that removing antibiotic use from large-scale U.S. poultry farms can result in immediate and significant reductions in antibiotic resistance for some bacteria.
“We initially hypothesized that we would see some differences in on-farm levels of antibiotic-resistant enterococci when poultry farms transitioned to organic practices. But we were surprised to see that the differences were so significant across several different classes of antibiotics even in the very first flock that was produced after the transition to organic standards,” explains Sapkota, an Assistant Professor with the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health. “It is very encouraging.”…
While all farms tested positive for the presence of enterococci in poultry litter, feed, and water as expected, the newly organic farms were characterized by a significantly lower prevalence of antibiotic-resistant enterococci. For example, 67% of Enterococcus faecalis recovered from conventional poultry farms were resistant to erythromycin, while 18% of Enterococcus faecalis from newly organic poultry farms were resistant to this antibiotic. Dramatic changes also were observed in the levels of multi-drug resistant bacteria (organisms resistant to three or more antimicrobial classes) on the newly organic farms…
She expects that reductions in drug-resistant bacteria on US farms that “go organic” are likely to be more dramatic over time as reservoirs of resistant bacteria in the farm environment diminish.
Posted 2 years ago
Washingtonian's Cherry Blossom Guide
Weekend plans!
“The cherry-tini with Pyrat XO Rum features Bing cherries, and the coconut-cherry frozen cocktail is made with cherry vodka and a splash of maraschino-cherry juice”
Posted 2 years ago
The WETA Guide to Fine Dining
“Explore the crème de la crème of Washington area establishments and sample their offerings and atmosphere in this hour-long production. This show offers a lively, mouth-watering tour as the area’s top chefs showcase some of their astonishing creations and explain their philosophies on food.”
Now that it feels like spring, everyone should visit DC!
(or at least watch this episode if you have an hour to kill)
Posted 2 years ago
Alinea Chef Grant Achatz on playing with perceptions: “If I present to you something that I call ‘root beer float’ but it’s not in a glass, it’s on a plate — it’s not liquid, it’s solid — and it’s not brown, it’s completely clear — and I say ‘root beer float,’ and you look at it and you look at me and you think I’m crazy, I think that’s a good thing because now you’re engaged. We’re engaging you on so many different levels. And then the payoff is when you put that perfectly clear bite-size cube in your mouth, it tastes like a root beer float.” (pictured above is Achatz’s version of pheasant, which is served typically with flaming oak leaves)
Posted 2 years ago
For Every Holiday Party, the Right Drink
The perfect article for someone like me. Maybe I can expand my staple drink beyond the Amaretto Sour.
The Black Velvet sounds perfect:
“Ingredients
3 ounces Guinness stout, chilled 3 ounces Champagne or other sparkling wine, chilled.
Preparation
Fill a champagne flute halfway with the Guinness. Carefully pour the sparkling wine over the back of a spoon to fill the rest of the glass.Yield: 1 drink.”
Posted 2 years ago
“The only two things in life money can’t buy: true love and home grown tomatoes.”
Apparently, if you love Neko Case you can try to meld the two at Dylan’s Cafe in St. Johnsbury, Vermont where they now sell her homegrown tomatoes in a salad. Neat-o.
Posted 3 years ago
Tyler Cowen's appetite for ethnic food
“Most restaurants in Cowen’s encyclopedic guide are in the suburbs. Cowen tells the GW crowd that the problem with city restaurants is that most people are there not to eat but to socialize. In the suburbs, people are more interested in eating. “If you see people in a restaurant who are happy, don’t go there,” he says, adding with a grin, “You want people to be grim or screaming at each other.” In other words, you want diners to be there for the food, not to signal their sophistication. “
Tyler Cowen’s Ethnic Dining Guide is my favorite reference for places to eat locally.
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