“ Fifty years from now, when historians are looking for a moment that captures the depravity of our age—the gluttony, the self-destruction, the craving for worthless fame—it won’t be bathhouses, Big Love, or AdultFriendFinder. It’ll be Joey Chestnut stuffing that 68th hot dog down his unresisting gullet, live on ESPN. Or, worse, it’ll be the guy who broke his record.
The depravity of Major League Eating. - By William Saletan - Slate Magazine
eat it, y'all
This is great, especially now that I’m trying to cook more.
(via ryanfeeley, h/t addictedtotext)
“ Horseradish, the crisp ivory root that grows like topsy in garden and grass verge alike, is invariably treated as a one‑trick pony, inevitably lumped with roast beef or smoked fish. It deserves more.
Nigel Slater’s recipes with horseradish | Life and style | The Observer
How to prepare a kiwi
Crop Circle? at Street Anatomy
Japanese landscape designers ‘Earthscape’ have developed this project, known as the Medical Herbman Cafe Project (MHCP). The idea was to create a garden that operates as a living encyclopaedia of herbal knowledge, with herbs and plants composing each area of the body they benefit
via sunset
“ We say “What’s the recipe?” when we mean “How do you do it?” And though we want the answer to be “Like this!” the honest answer is “Be me!” “What’s the recipe?” you ask the weary pro chef, and he gives you a weary-pro-chef look, since the recipe is the totality of the activity, the real work. The recipe is to spend your life cooking.
Why we use cookbooks : The New Yorker
elsi:
Jason Fulford :: Peanut Butter
via jasonfulford.com
