Monday, July 19, 2010
Food media Monday food links: Contraband Milk (potential band name)
Posted by Emma Harger on Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:25 PM
Oh, of course—the Mel Gibson cocktail, courtesy Gothamist. It's described as a "bi-polar cocktail" and contains Van Gogh vodka, gin, vermouth, club soda and...pickled cocktail onion juice! (For the low low price of $19!) Is it in bad taste or does it just taste bad?
With the Roast of David Hasselhoff soon, A Hamburger Today theorizes that the infamous 'drunken cheeseburger' saved his career. (He skewers the infamy of that video in an ad for the roast.)
Etiquette time! Bon Appetit's Andrew Knolton explores what to do when you find surprises in your food. He's very forgiving of foreign objects in the food, but asserts the right to send something back even if you're not as forgiving as he is. (I'd like to focus more on the implications of a man telling a woman not to "make a fuss" about something she could fuss about and her just going along with it.)
Artist Liz Hickock has created something unusual and award-winning: San Francisco, in Jell-o. (Jell-ocisco?) Must've been odd to eat afterward, feeling like Godzilla or something, if it was eaten at all!
I'm bookmarking this site right away: Still Tasty helps people figure out how long things keep and when to really throw it out (because people often mistake sell-by dates for end-of-life dates). Also they have Q&A, tips, recipes and even an iPhone app for tasty-checking on the go.
Martha Stewart Living names the food specialties of 20 states but Georgia is not among them. Oh well.
Chicago Tribune looks at 5 underrated foods. I wonder if there's some way to use all five of them in one recipe?
Craig Goldwyn, who is pretty serious about his barbecue, studies the 12 types of American barbecue sauces. Including recipes and history lessons. See, history can be fun.
Time for a milk twofer!
NPR has a story on raw milk—the risks and the people who enjoy it regardless of risk. As I recall, Georgia is one of the states where people can get raw milk, but it's marked as for animal consumption and may be handled through drop-off points as well. Anyone here drink raw milk? What's it like?
Another contraband kind of milk is camel milk. Camels differ from cows in that there are so few of them and they produce so little milk, so don't expect hundreds of camel milk cartons at Publix anytime soon. (Also, a camel's happiness is gauged on how far out their lower lip is sticking! Who knew?)
If you can do it, you can make a documentary about it. Eater has a preview of Ready, Set, Bag! Yes, a documentary about a national grocery-bagging contest. (They should add a category for reusable bags!)
Palate cleanser: A photo gallery of politicians with ice cream. No, not just Obama, although he's up first. This gallery also includes Clinton, Bush and even international world leaders, all indulging in some frozen fun. Ice cream: it's truly nonpartisan!
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I can't believe A. Knowlton finds hair in his food more offensive than live bugs. He's probably finding his own hair, anyway- he's got plenty of it. In doing research on food poisoning I found out that hair offers no health risk- from a public health perspective it's simply an "aesthetic problem."
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