THE GURGLING COD

Cook it Raw menu...

Via FOC David Shields, the Cook it Raw menu. Not straight from Bolivia, as they were using local ingredients, but definitely no trivia. 

Amateur Gourmet to Martha: "You must respect our cheese sandwiches."

So at the day job, the Cod's host is teaching a novel about a man who goes to sleep in 1887, and wakes up in 2000, which made me more receptive to the idea that I might have gone to sleep in 2013, and woken up in 2006. I guess Martha Stewart said some things about bloggers that were not nice, and now the Amateur Gourmet leaps to their defense, just like George Bush was president and Pete Wells still worked at Food & Wine. As some of you have noticed, I used to be more active in this space than I am now, but I enjoy getting on here now and again, and I enjoy many of the folks I met here and keep up with via Twitter. As such, it's curious to me that the AG defends blogging by pointing out how some bloggers rise to the level of, uh, not blogging: 

Which explains how Deb Perelman wrote a bestselling cookbook and how Ree Drummond scored a show on Food Network and how David Lebovitz has inspired a whole religion of cult followers. True, you've built an empire that no blogger could ever emulate; but, on the flip side, we enhance people's lives in ways that are far more personal. 

(BTW, invoking The Pioneer Woman in a defense of blogging is like making Mitch Albom the cornerstone of your reboot of Aereopagitica, but I digress.) Martha's diss of bloggers was probably infelicitious, but not inaccurate. Ultimately, efforts to defend food blogging qua food blogging end up looking like this:

And how was your weekend?

Guiteau Monday, parts is parts ed.

Yep, Anchower. Stand by for actual food-related stuff, but betimes, via Jezebel. 

Are you seriously kidding me? I guess "decent shape for her age, disappointingly centrist" does not sell buttons. Ah, fuck it, it's just another Guiteau Monday.