Archives for the 'pasta' tag
Palin Pasta
On this, the last day of the 2008 election, and thus probably the last day the name Palin will decorate our highway medians (at least for three and a half years), I give you a final culinary thought on the election season:
No, your eyes do not deceive you. What you see above is pasta in the form of tiny spinach and egg moose. I haven’t yet tried this miracle of modern pasta science, but I already know how it will taste–like bitter, bitter tears.
Edible Googly Eyes Made of Malted Milk, Atheism
The New York Times food section is always a joy, with its declarations that a $65 sushi prix fixe is “affordable” dining, its demands that we schlep to Brooklyn for the authentic experience of drinking beer made in Utica, and articles titled things like “Vinegars Hear Muses of Long Ago.” (All this, just in yesterday’s edition!)
But the good people at the NYT have let me (and Serious Eats) down. In an article about food-based science projects, they failed to property identify a flying spaghetti monster, captioning it: “Malted milk ball eyes atop a noodle monster.”
But some of us know anti-creationist humor when we see it. reason’s Jesse Walker explains:
Behold the Flying Spaghetti Monster, noodle-god of the Pastafarians….The monster was created—or revealed?—by Bobby Henderson when Kansas decided to teach “intelligent design” alongside evolution. “I and many others around the world are of the strong belief that the universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster,” he wrote to the state board of education in 2005, urging that this theory receive equal time.
For an brilliant, obsessive account of how to make your own edible googly eyes without a single drop of divine intervention, go here.
For a comprehensive source on flying spaghetti monster sightings, go here.
