Enemy at Noah’s Gates
Hehehehe:
Wheat & Weeds – Now THIS Is Blatant Anti-Semitism
I love that Apple’s dictionary.app can always be trusted to translate the Yiddishisms.
Categories: Food
Cook Porn III
Good Restaurants and Design-Led Hotels
A restaurant review in The Times: Giles Coren reviews Brasserie Joël, London SE1
What preposterous gastronomic oxymoron to serve such stellar names of old rural France in this wizened prepuce of an urban planner’s foetid, guilty nightmare?
I love it.
Categories: Food
On North Korea and Relative Harms
The Times – Sometimes peace does more damage than war
The other point is this. At the end of the Korean War, we agreed that the division of Korea should persist. Despite North Korea’s aggression — including blatant acts of war, including the possession of nuclear weapons — the West does not plan military [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
I Guess Jamie Oliver Isn’t a Tory
I saw that kerfuffle play out on Twitter and I must say, I got the impression that if he was, he’d be hailed as visionary by the new government. It seemed like that kind of snipe.
The Times – Janice Turner: It was a supersize gaffe to diss Jamie, minister
About that column: I concur. Paywall!
Categories: Food
If Only There Were Illegals in American Samoa Doing the Jobs the American Samoans Won’t Do
My parents were up today and my dad was talking about this story which, naturally, I hadn’t heard of. Congress raised the minimum wage again and this time, in their wise benevolence, didn’t give American Samoa an exemption:
When Democrats in Congress increased the minimum wage in 2007, the U.S. territory of 65,000 in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Bring Back Home Ec!
A coworker (raised partially, I kid you not, on a commune) had on his Facebook a couple weeks ago a story about a cooking class for toddlers to get them interested in food (he’s very into all this sensory learning stuff). I left a comment, “Bring back home ec!” Don’t know how it went over, [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
From Star Wars to Staring Contests
Ladies and gentlemen, observe the new Cold War:
President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in DC (click for photo)
Like the Muppets!
Categories: Politics
Spork and Foon Jokes
Childhood Obesity Is All The Sun’s Fault
Telegraph – Parents wrongly believe that abduction is a greater threat to children than inactivity and obesity Parents wrongly believe that abduction is a greater threat to children than inactvity and obesity according to a survey published on Tuesday.
RC2 once had a line about only tackling crime will solve the childhood obesity issue, but it would [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
RC2 Took Lent Hard This Year
Thank God for Easter Week.
Categories: Food
As Westerners Turn Out Their Lights So They Can’t See…
…And other ironically delivered lines about environmentalist efforts these days.
Globe and Mail – China denies responsibility for shrinking Mekong River
Vital waterway at its lowest level in nearly 20 years; originates in Tibet and is the lifeblood for 65 million people in Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam
Oh hurrah!
“The building and [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Who Wants Italian
I’ve never heard of Rose Gray, nor her restaurant, but reading India Knight write about eating (and going into labor, and continuing eating) there, makes me want to go there. Failing that, I can buy the cookbook…
Categories: Food
Nemo Fried Mars Bars Impune Lacessit
Mark Steyn being chipper and optimistic again on the subject of the West in general and in this case, a favourite topic of ours in particular:
Or take Scotland. Most anywhere you go around the planet, from Hong Kong to Hudson’s Bay, almost everything that works was created and developed by Scotsmen. Now the [...]
Categories: History
More Authorities Trying to Make Themselves Useful In This New Paradise
More hardware store misery, too. John Stossel, via Mark Steyn:
For 15 years, the B & B Do it Center, a local hardware store in the small California town of Camarillo, has been putting out coffee and doughnuts for its morning customers. Actually longer, says owner Randy Collins; the previous owner did it [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
