Tag: Food

The Land Of The Free

I have read another report that shows me that this country is losing all compassion…….we accuse people of being poor by choice…..we accuse people on Social Security as being freeloaders……..the country turns its back on its vets…..just a few incidents……

And then I read one that makes me ashamed…….

A simple citation couldn’t keep Arnold Abbott off the streets of Fort Lauderdale, where he’s been feeding the homeless for more than two decades. The 90-year-old man, charged Sunday with violating a new ordinance that clamps down on public feeding of the homeless, dished out meals at a public beach Wednesday, just as he has every Wednesday for 23 years in honor of his late wife, ABC News reports. Shouts of “God bless you, Arnold!” were heard as almost 100 homeless people and volunteers gathered around, the AP reports. Though officers at first only recorded “Chef Arnold,” they later stepped in to issue him another citation.

But Abbott remains undeterred. “You cannot sweep the homeless under a rug,” he tells Local 10. “There is no rug large enough for that.” Fort Lauderdale’s mayor admits Abbott is “a super nice guy” but wants to see him move his program to a nearby church in order to provide a “sanitary” and “safe, secure [setting]”; per the new ordinance, which went into effect a week ago, those handing out food outdoors must make public toilets available. As for what’s next, the World War II veteran says he’ll feed some 200 people at a local church on Sunday, but “I don’t plan to give up the beach,” he says. “I’ll fight for the beach as long as there’s birth in my body.” The AP notes Abbott also runs a culinary school that trains the homeless and finds them jobs in kitchens. (Click for more on his first arrest this week.)

So but in my mind what this man is doing is not a crime…..if anything he should be rewarded for his humanitarianism……not be treated like a criminal………

Any thoughts?

21 US Cities Restrict Sharing Food With Homeless People | PopularResistance.Org

I wish I had a good intro to this press….but the best thing I can think of…….it is a disgusting idea…..that any American would consider this a good idea and if they do………. how can they sleep at night.

At what point does this fly into the face of what this country stands for?……..has compassion been replaced with selfish indulgence?

A shameful story…….

 

21 US Cities Restrict Sharing Food With Homeless People | PopularResistance.Org.

Palestine: Eating A Conflict

In my younger years I was a chef…..I do enjoy preparing food and watching others enjoy eating the meal….because of my interests in food, war, Middle east this story caught my attention….

The controversy was ignited by an establishment known as “Conflict Kitchen,” whose rotating menu features items that are culturally unique to countries “in conflict with the United States.”

Members of the Jewish community in Pittsburgh are objecting to a local diner’s invitation to customers to sample Palestinian cuisine fearing that it could incite customers against Israel, according to media reports in Pennsylvania.

The controversy was ignited by an establishment known as “Conflict Kitchen,” whose rotating menu features items that are culturally unique to countries “in conflict with the United States.”

The restaurant also hosts cultural and political discussions featuring experts who can provide deeper insight into whichever part of the world the establishment wishes to train its focus.

Conflict Kitchen has in the past altered its menu to offer delicacies from Afghanistan, North Korea, Cuba, Iran, and Venezuela. Its latest selection – the Palestinians – has ensnared it into a controversy.

Gregg Roman, who heads the community relations council at the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh, told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, “Conflict Kitchen’s focus on countries in conflict is honorable, but Palestine is not in conflict with the US. The restaurant is stirring up conflict for the sake of trying to be relevant.”

This week, Conflict Kitchen is serving up hummus, baba ghanoush, “salata gazawiya,” and musakhan, “the national dish of Palestine.” It is also hosting a discussion with a Palestinian author to discuss food and culture in the West Bank and Gaza.

Appears Israelis are running scared…..the BDS movement is gathering strength……more countries are recognizing Palestine as legit…….calls for Israel to face charges at the ICC…..they are desperately trying to control the news in an attempt to help the world lose interests in their utter destruction of Gaza….

Sorry dudes…NOT WORKING!  The rest of the world is sick of your BS on self-defense….about time that they be held to the same standards as the rest of the world…all debts to them have been paid.

I called the cafe to see if I could get a meal sent to me here in Mississippi…….least I could do.

How one man destroyed the Food Network: Guy Fieri has made culinary TV into a viewer’s hell – Salon.com

The weekend and time for a change of pace…..you are welcome!

In 2005 when I was recovering from 2 surgeries I use to live on the Food Network…..as a chef in a past life I am always looking for new cooking techniques and good recipes….I spent hours enjoying the different chefs and their techniques…..and then this twat with spiky hair won their Next Chef” contest and the network went down the toilet…….

The Food Network was a delight until spikey boy wins that damn contest and almost overnight it became a reality show Hell….mind numbing stupidity……..gone were the days of actual people cooking and teaching others the joys of cooking

I have despised this a/hole….he would not know good food if it gave him oral sex…….his only concern is seeing himself on the tube…..he has killed the food Network….so when I read this article I felt I needed to press it for my readers……

Enjoy!

How one man destroyed the Food Network: Guy Fieri has made culinary TV into a viewer’s hell – Salon.com.

Edible Taboos

Keeping with the theme of this weekend….our choices of dietary consumption……there are a wealth of items to eat and then there are those that we should not eat…….one that comes to mind first is the old Donner Party BBQ……yep I am talking about chowing down on your fellow human……

(Newser) – Have you ever wondered if would be OK—healthwise, not morally speaking—to feast on a fellow human? If so, Gizmodo has some answers. The strongest case against cannibalism is a version of mad cow disease or Creutzfeld-Jacob disease known as kuru to the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. For 20 years starting in the 1950s, more than 2,500 women and children died from the so-called “shaking death” after eating their relatives’ body parts. This practice was part of a funeral ritual meant to show respect; the Fore believe a person’s soul isn’t free until their flesh is eaten. But because of the ritual, many contracted the fatal prion malady, which prevents brain cells from working and can take up to a year to kill the victim after the symptoms first appear.

If you absolutely must eat a body part, you may want to avoid the brain, spinal cord, bone marrow, and small intestine, which are the ones most likely to be infected. As for the Fore, they mostly stopped the practice known as “transumption” in the mid-1950s; but nowadays, as Mark Griffiths points out in the Independent, “sexual cannibalism” has been in the news quite a bit, particularly thanks to Dale Bolinger, a UK nurse recently convicted of grooming a teenage girl with the ultimate intention of eating her. The gruesome fetish is typically considered a psychosexual disorder. But if you’re just curious what human flesh might taste like, 1930s adventurer William Buehler Seabrook once tried it and revealed that it tastes very much like veal, Slate notes. While there’s technically no law in the US banning cannibalism, Cornell University Law School notes that it would likely violate laws against corpse desecration—or murder. (If you did eat a human, here’s how many calories you’d probably consume.)

My first question is……is what kind of person would even consider this?  Next would be…… what kind of person does the research?

Was this an option for consumption?

Okay, I know someone out there is just dying to throw their opinion in here…..so go ahead….fire away!

 

You Are What You Eat

The weekend and I get a chance to look into other aspects of life and death….other than war and armed conflicts……as an old fart I have realized that if I want to live a bit longer that I need to watch what I eat…….most of us old farts are doing similar activities……..

They say, whoever “they” are, that we need to replace some of the meat we eat with veggies, especially leafy veggies……I am a carnivore and the thought of eating without meat is just scary………but could it be that being a carnivore may not be all that bad after all?

(Newser) – An apple a day keeps the doctor away—unless, of course, it’s carrying a disease. Turns out that vegetables and fruits are actually worse than beef and pork when it comes to making people sick, reports Bloomberg, based on a CDC paper from last year. Experts looked at illnesses and hospitalizations from various kinds of foods between 1998 and 2008. Healthy stuff, including fruits and vegetables, accounted for some 46% of illnesses.

Leafy vegetables were responsible for the most illnesses, while dairy was responsible for the most hospitalizations. Beef ranked sixth in numbers of illnesses caused, behind fruits and nuts, and various vegetables; it ranked seventh in hospitalizations. Pork ranked even lower in both cases. But don’t think the CDC is giving you an excuse to opt for a burger over broccoli: “Other factors, such as the health benefits of consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables, must also be considered,” the researchers say.

Oh great!  Something else to worry about in my daily life!

Anything you would like to add?

It’s All Michelle’s Fault!

Keeping with the subject of the day, education, I want to talk about my fave part of the school day….lunch.

Well we know that there are those that just cannot resist blaming Obama for everything from terrorism to the rapid increase in hemorrhoids…..in the past many millionaires have jumped on the bandwagon about what our children eat and drink….they spend hours condemning parents for their choices of food for the family…..the problem is that not one of them works for minimum wage and have to prepare food on a budget….they simply piss and moan……but they do have a valid point.

The Prez and his wife started a White House garden trying to bring a new understanding to nutrition……..the act has been praised and condemned, depending on where you stand politically…that in itself is the height of stupidity…….the government set standards that school lunches most adhere to and of course there is a blow back……..this one is one of my fave pieces on the school lunch nutrition program……..

Schools are struggling to adhere to new government rules on healthy lunches, and school officials are asking Washington to step back. “The regulations are so prescriptive, so it’s difficult to manage not only the nutrition side of your businesses but the business side of your business,” a school nutrition director says. Among the concerns are a requirement that grain products like pasta be whole-grain rich by next school year—a rule kids don’t find particularly appetizing, officials say.

The School Nutrition Association is asking Congress and the USDA to lower the whole-grain requirement so that it only applies to 50% of offerings, the AP reports. The association would also like to suspend new sodium limits and ditch the requirement that all meals come with a fruit or vegetable. “If the kids don’t eat the food, then all I have is healthy trash cans,” says another nutrition director. Teenagers, the Wire reports, have found a target for their food frustration: “I blame Michelle Obama,” says one, while another says “it’s gotta be a combination of Michelle and the servers at the school.” Obama did back the law that implemented the changes. But according to a nutrition advocate, Obama is a “cheerleader” for the program, while the USDA actually makes the rules.

How dare the Prez and the first lady support our children eating more healthy….the audacity….the arrogance….civilization is DOOMED!  Did you hear me……DOOMED!

God I love these people!  For without them I would have a lot less to write about.  Please keep them talking!

Worst News Ever!

And now the weekend and time for….”something completely different”……..

Okay, I admit it…..I am a wine snob!  California wine taste like it has been soaked in salt……Australian wine smells like a wet dog…….for me it is Spanish and French wines that are the best……Chilean and Argentine well do in a pinch…….and Germ,an wine has lost all its character…..

I have been drinking wine with meals since I was a boy living in Europe……seems like an incomplete meal without a good wine……so this news is the worst news I could ever receive…..

Newser) – A worldwide wine shortage? Technically speaking, it’s already happened, reports Quartz. And what’s more, things are on track to get worse. Stats compiled by Morgan Stanley Research show that the world fell 300 million cases short of demand last year, the biggest in-the-red number in half a century. The problem is rather simple despite the scale: Everyone is drinking more—especially the US and China—even as production is dropping.

Last year, for instance, production worldwide fell 5%, mostly because of lousy weather in France and Argentina, reports CNNMoney. The 2013 harvest will be much stronger, but Roberto Ferdman at Quartz warns that one solid year isn’t going to matter much in the long run. “Europe, which has easily been suffering the steepest decline in wine production (roughly 25% since 2004) will have to reverse its recent bout of poor harvests well into the century to continue supplying the world,” he writes

Hulk sad!

Why The Uproar Over Climate Change?

We hear daily from all sorts of pundits and politicos about the subject of climate change, the politically correct way of saying global warming…….we hear from the right about what junk science it is….we hear from the left about the consequences of doing nothing……you choose your side….but before you do please investigate both sides both making some bonehead statements……

Me?  I am on the side that we humans are gonna f*cked this planet until there is nothing left to save…..but that is my opinion….and I do what I can to help….I realize it may be too little but at least I am trying to make change….how about you?

But now back to the original question……why the uproar?

Maybe this will help to explain why………

UN scientists see bad things happening to the world’s food supply in the next several decades even as demand increases, reports the New York Times. A draft report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007) predicts that climate change will cut agricultural production by 2% per decade through the end of the century. That reduction comes as demand rises 14% per decade thanks to the ever-growing world population. The panel’s previous report in 2007 was more optimistic, notes the Times. That one said that while some areas of the world would see less production, those losses would be offset by gains in colder climes. Now, the UN scientists predict a net loss, reflecting new research that shows crops are more sensitive than thought to hot temperatures. Another tangible sign of the times: President Obama yesterday ordered federal agencies to help state and local governments better prepare for rising sea levels, storms, and droughts, reports the Washington Post.

Okay, believe it or not….that is up to you….but if you are a gardener you have experienced some changes in growing habits of the veggies…….and if this is true……expect massive price increases to the point that some foods will be price prohibitive for some people……

If the food source suffers…how long will it be before the aquifers begin to show problems?

Finally, when the food runs out….in which direction will the fingers point?

Now here is where I would like everyone’s thoughts on this situation…..