Archives for the 'mark bittman' tag
Quick Bites
North Korea’s first beer celebrated in absurd 3-minute ad. [Reuters]
Least shocking thing ever: USDA organic labeling scheme is a failure. [MSNBC]
Stodgy Brit slags bacon. [Times of London (HT Jake Dupont)]
Bittman and Jose Andres blather about sustainability for an hour. [Slow Food LA]
Hindu extremists toss pig on mosque construction site in India. Riots ensue. Can retaliatory cow tossing be far off? [CNN]
Kitchen Confidential clone doesn’t quite cut it. [The Onion]
Breakfast à la carte
**Happy Repeal Day! Where I’ll be part of the “overwhelming response” of celebrating nerdy drinkers.
**Mark Bittman questions… First, Who is he–besides a guy who hits on Claudia Bassols? Second, Bittman asks readers, What is it? (My guess: something in tea leaves, not mulch or cud.)
**New Hampshire, one of the freer of states, may be looking to get out of the booze business, opening the state up to private sales and competition.
**Nigella (.com) gets a facelift.
**Via the fantabulous BaconUnwrapped, vegetarians are really just repressed bacon eaters.
**The NYT’s excellent John Tierney asks whether buyers’ low-calorie perceptions about a menu–particularly in menu-label-happy places like New York–beget a high-calorie reality.
