THE GURGLING COD

Rose's Lime

Longtime commenter and FOC Rose's Lime steps into the blogosphere with a blog of the same name. He'll be tracking what his family does with their weekly share from Steve Parker's farm. Out of the gate, the Calo Verde looks like a great solution to the glut of kale that is often a feature of early-season CSA offerings, so stay tuned.

Stuff White People Like: Tongue in cheek or head in ass?

I have generally avoided Stuff White People Like, on the grounds that it was funnier when it was a book, and it was 1982. Like The Preppy Handbook, from my limited perusal, SWPL celebrates the thing that it purports to satirize. Also, call me a fussbudget, but it's easier for me to laugh at satire directed at a class than at a race. Satire, when done proper, does not simply provoke a chuckle of self-recognition. So SWPL  is not part of my time-wasting routine. But Chow, in a post on menu typos  mentioned a recent entry in a new SWPL feature "White problems," this one being typos on menus:
"The presence of an improper apostrophe on a menu can ruin an otherwise delicious meal for a white person."
Nothing like a week at the northernmost Ivy to get you  thinking about race, but it's hard to avoid the inference that, say, black people are too busy exercising their natural talents for song and dance to let menu typos get them down.

Carbon Footprint

Come for  the hamachi ravioli with quail yolk; stay for the braised Nazareth almonds.

Alton Brown's Gunboat Environmentalism

I think it might be worth taking a moment to point out that Alton Brown is completely full of shit:
Alton Brown’s doing penance: That’s what the Good Eats star tells Grist’s Roz Cummins in an interview; according to the article, “his TV show would begin focusing on sustainability issues: how crops are grown and animals are raised.” Brown says, “I’ve been busy being clever, but now I want to use what credibility I may have to help people think about sustainability.”
Fantastic. Good for him. But:
Brown says, somewhat weirdly, that the police motto “to serve and protect” will be his new approach to cooking and eating. And then, when the topic turns to overfishing, the interview takes a truly strange turn: “Somebody needs to sink the Japanese tuna fleet,” Brown says. “Everyone’s willing to point the finger, but nobody’s willing to pull the trigger.” So Cummins—“[s]urprised by such a rash declaration, and wanting to present a more effective, lasting, and peaceful alternative”—asks him if he’d be willing to crew on a Greenpeace boat. “‘Yes! Absolutely!’ he answered.”

I am confident that the Japanese tuna fleet is perpetrating all sorts of crimes against the planet. But it's convenient for Alton that he chooses an adversary both remote and telegenic, instead of, say, looking in on stablemate Paula Deen's pig hell. Considering his track record as a histrionic scenery-chewer incapable of not mugging, it's not surprising that he went this route. Brace yourself for Alton Brown doing live shots from the bridge of the PT-109 -- I'll be on the porch reading a book.

Justice at Smithfield

I'm not, like, some kind of a social justice nut, but having just returned from camp, job 1(a) is pulling together notes for an enhanced e-book edition of The Jungle. And then my RSS dresses up like Alanis and drops this in the feed.

I guess the Pure Food and Drug Act and two dollars will get these folks a cup of coffee, but it might be hard for them to hold on to it. Short of setting myself on fire in front of Paula Deen's restaurant, what can a Cod do? Seriously.

 

Unfancy

  For those of you overwhelmed by the Fancy Food Show, the Unfancy Food Show comes to, you guessed it, Williamsburg. I am a fan of some of the vendors here, and some of the others sound interesting, but on what planet are craft-brewed ales and hand crafted knives "unfancy"? Perhaps I need a hundred-dollar hoodie and sixty-dollar cargo shorts to understand. As the man on the left would tell you, nothing wrong with being fancy, but pretending like you aren't when you are is Garth Brooks territory.

Click, Click, Boom

Let's hope Bishop Allen has already made their trip to Ko, because from now on, they won't be able to take a picture with their click click click camera, what with Chang banning photography in the reataurant. If Chang's culinary vision extended only as  afar as thawing Salisbury steaks, he would still be a genius at working the publicity machine as it exists in 2008. Ko opened, buzz --  obsessive coverage of the reservation policy, more buzz -- public musing on reform to reservation system. Now with folks running out of things to say about the reservation system, and after most of the big reviews are in, Chang gets the plate spinning again, with a whimsical changes guaranteed to have food bloggers in an uproar. Well played, sir.

Pickler proud of his package

From Domino's Greenlife feature:

My family was always canning in the summers. Craving the pickles of my youth, I began making my own, using Brooklyn green-market produce. Now we sell 11 varieties—from beets to okra and, of course, cucumbers. I'm really proud of our mail-order packaging, which eliminates the need for Styrofoam peanuts and bubble wrap.

Seeing is believing, folks.

Breakfast

The flaky croissants, shrimp and grits, and huevos rancheros can wait, because The Cod is starting the day like this:

Eat right with the Hulk

The Gurgling Cod is spending warm summer days indoors, interacting with actual people from early to late, which cuts into the posts. But, college football blogger extraordinaire Orson Swindle enlisted the Hulk for some timely advice about eating right in the summertime:

Hulk tell Murray relax and have colada. Murray say abuse of image. Hulk know value of image! HULK NOT TOLERATE OVEREXPOSURE! Hulk show Murray real worry for Hulk. Hulk see on gas pump this weekend. HULK SMASH GAS STATION AND TAQUITO ROLLER WHEN HULK SEE IT! Blame agent, not Hulk.

HULK WANT FIRE AGENT AFTER SEE THIS! Icy sugar juice flavored with corn syrup. Hulk not approve of American slavery to corn lobby. CORN FOR PIGS NOT MEN! Hulk also disapprove of HFCS as sweetener.

Radiation not funny, either! Radiation turn nice man Bruce Banner into ME! HULK ANGRY AT COMMERCIAL OVEREXPLOITATION, MISUNDERSTANDING OF GAMMA RADIATION! Classroom need moment of science! Hulk support education reform along with close celebrity friends Laurence Fishburne, George Clooney. Fundraiser later this month in Aspen! THIS NOT HELP!

Hulk also not believe gall to offer free taquito with three. WHO BUY THREE TAQUITO AT 7-11! Hulk think if want to die, faster ways, like fight with The Abomination or bullet through head. HULK DISAPPOINTED IN USE OF NAME AS VERB! HULK MEAN “SMASH!,” NOT “EAT FOUR TAQUITOS WHILE DRINK GREEN CORN SYRUP IN CAR!”

Hulk not this angry since Ed Norton write boring drama script. Try turn Hulk into dramatic vehicle. HULK HATE WRITER/ACTOR/DIRECTOR COMBOS! Specialization key to all industrial success. Why not Yale man understand? HULK HATE POMPOUS ASSBAG YALIES. He lack definition in American History X,too. Hulk needed work at time! Could have personal trained!

Hulk conclude. HULK TALK WITH AGENT AFTER GET BACK FROM TURKS AND CAICOS! First Hulk enjoy last day with date for week on beach. HULK NOT KISS AND TELL! Hulk totally tell: Lauren Conrad. Hulk finally find woman to accomodate special size requirement! Hulk now slightly daunted!