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This was posted over on the eGullet forums by the user "project", and I thought it was worthy of reposting.
Net, so far, in practice, in the US, if it passes through a
motion picture camera, then nearly always it has to be from
the I Love Lucy crowd. Yes, in Jurassic Park,
Spielberg got the DNA science okay, but he is a rare
exception.News? The same. Food? The same. Sports? The same.
Science? The same. That crowd has only a hammer and
sees nearly everything as a nail. E.g., science programs are
nearly never about the science but all about the drama
that can be contrived — geology becomes the violence of
volcanoes, the weather becomes the threat of hurricanes,
tornadoes, and global warming, ecology and nature become the
rape of nature by evil humans, planetary motion becomes the
risk of a "global killer" asteroid, rocket engineering becomes
"Will they all be killed in a big explosion?", etc.Endless, pointless, useless, worthless,
dra ra ra ra ra ra-ra ra ra-ra ma ma ma ma-ma ma-ma ma-ma
Sickening.
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This week’s episode features the new restaurant 15 East, personal chef Jennifer Lynn and the new kids food store, Kidfresh. Lemme know what you think — these guys (both the network and the spots featured) are doing some interesting stuff.
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| Featuring the Gentleman Gourmand (Andrew Baber) | |
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Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivores Dilemma, comments on current day nutrition in this outstanding article.
That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly
complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in
order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give away the game right here
at the beginning of a long essay, and I confess that I’m tempted to
complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a few
thousand more words. I’ll try to resist but will go ahead and add a
couple more details to flesh out the advice. Like: A little meat won’t
kill you, though it’s better approached as a side dish than as a main.
And you’re much better off eating whole fresh foods than processed food
products. That’s what I mean by the recommendation to eat “food.” Once,
food was all you could eat, but today there are lots of other edible
foodlike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food
science often come in packages festooned with health claims, which
brings me to a related rule of thumb: if you’re concerned about your
health, you should probably avoid food products that make health
claims. Why? Because a health claim on a food product is a good
indication that it’s not really food, and food is what you want to eat.
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Pics from Eastern Standard and Mary Chung using High Dynamic Range Imaging.
General Gao’s Chicken – Mary Chung’s, Cambridge
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HDRI – High Dynamic Range Imaging is the wave of the future. Here’s what it means: you take three different exposures of the same scene, then combine them into an image that looks more realistic than any one image a camera can capture.
This has some amazing potential for not just standard photography (portraits, landscapes etc), but really makes food look amazing.
I have started experimenting with it — let me know what you think!
Yum Nuea Salad at Dok Bua, Brookline
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Step one: buy deep fryer.
Step two: use it enough for normal purposes to get slightly bored.
Step three: come up with the craziest from-the-fridge leftover-utilizing americanized "sushi" inspired thing you’ve ever seen.
Ladies and gentleman, I not-so-proudly present the Real Ultimate Power Fusion Roll:
Behold, and be fearful! What you have before you is mushroom-kissed risotto wrapped around the flavored edges of not just honey ham, but deli-sliced buffalo chicken and provolone cheese. The nori-replacement consists of the rectangular-cut slices of said honey ham and buffalo chicken. Simply roll like maki, and then tempura fry.
K.Walters will summarize: "Dear Baber, this is K.walters’ stomach… what did you just make her eat? i think it had some risotto in it… I hate you."
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Andrew Baber is a