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Breaking the Fast

Breakfast on the American Interstate, in the motel chains that welcome dogs as well as people, is a desultory, joyless affair, with fake butter, chemicalized waffles, white bread, thin coffee, petroleum plates,and sugared-up dry cereals. Oh--and maybe a sickly sweet perfect apple, its skin tough as nails.

Breakfast on a young man's visit to Marrakesh, Morocco, on the other hand, starts out looking like this:

Blue and white, my personal favorite, real breads, fresh juice, and tea or coffee brewed for each diner. 

Via Benjamin Talley Smith

Food Graphs

The remarkable viewpoint ( and skill) of Lauren Manning, chronicling her consumption, as well as where she ate in Manhattan.

 

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 Via Tumblr, Lauren Manning.

Pyramid Prankishness...

Via IMGFave

Trader Joe's Sublime Olive Oil Spud Chips

How have I missed these before? Is it because I tend to skirt the snack section of TJ's? I mean.....Providing you can exercise culinary self-control, a must for TJ cookies, pumpkin ice cream, et al, buy these. I eat 3-5 a day, if so moved. They crunch, the salt level is perfect, and my best pal, olive oil, is involved. Yes!

Photo via French Fry Diary

Save NYC Food Trucks, Grassroots Campaign to End Metered Parking Ban of New York City Food Trucks

via laughingsquid.com

McIcky: Their So-Called "Pork" McRib

"McDonalds' McRib and its cult-like following are back. Thank goodness the "disconcerting" sandwich is only returning for a limited time only, says Meredith Melnick at TIME. Because if you knew about all the unpronounceable ingredients packed into the McRib, you might think twice about wolfing down the sauce-drenched pork concoction. Think you can stomach what's inside? "

Get the gory details Via The Week

( Photo: CC BY: Calgary Reviews )

 

Travelers on Simulated Mission to Mars Will Emerge Soon--What Did They Eat?

Six men in a "Basement" in Russia for 520 days straight are testing out a long (!!) flight to Mars.

Via Wired

".... The voyagers were sealed off from terrestrial life, each one allotted a private bunk room just 32 feet square and access to a common living room, a small gym, a greenhouse, and two minuscule lavatories. The crew’s food storage room is almost as big as their living quarters, and when they entered isolation on June 3, 2010, it contained every single calorie they would consume as they soared through “space,” then spent nine days on “Mars” (in this case a small pit of red sand) before returning and exiting a year and a half later."

 Food required for a crew of 6: 29,200 pounds.

But what did they eat??????

 

All Cereals Are Not Created Equal...

Artist Ron English likes to mess with folks. His "cereals" carry varying messages about the sugary, artificially enhanced, rubbishy products he satirizes--and he actually places them in a supermarket--in this case, Ralph's, Venice Beach, CA.( Take a close look.)

Apparently if you find one of his creations and return it to him, he will sign it for you. 

More about Ron English here.

Thin and Thinner: Organic Pizza by Jules

Just look at these slices, people---and absorb that they are made largely from organic ingredients, from local ingredients, and fired up swiftly--slices with goat cheese, caramelized onions, and adamame; pesto-infused cheese with tomatoes; shaved salami and sausage with....And so on.

The restaurant is Jules Thin Crust Pizza, named for one of the owner's kids, and the one we hit is in Wrightstown, PA . There are two other PA Jules', plus one in CA. The ambiance is "bring your kids!"

So don't come looking for romance....just crispy goodness.

Lobstah Roll!

Toasted roll with the New England flat sided "hotdog" roll. Fresh o fresh lobster. Butter, lemon. Cyndi's Dockside, Poland Spring, Maine.

Eat at Silly's... Go On, Do It!

The fish burrito I ate at this funky joint in Portland, Maine was so perfect, and so hugely generous in size, that I took half back to where I was staying, and happily ate it cold, two days later, as I drove from Maine down to a town on the Hudson River.

But right then and there, in Silly's, my nephew and I shared a divine chocolate cake slice--triple layer, people!--and barely managed to save a two inch portion for those back on the farm. Notice the way they serve the Java: pression. Impressively fresh. 

Silly's has a jazzy, retro interior, and serves up drinking water in wine bottles. Fab.

 

 

Visualizing Your Food.....

New York designer Lauren Manning explored what she ate during a two year project, and ended up displaying same in 40 different ways. Pictured above? Food by color.

A Swiss website, Data Visualization, has more info on the project, though I still have no clue where this was presented.

One of Lauren's blogs is The Design Zoo.

Summer-to-Fall Supper

A rare post of, err, just food!  ( Because I am not a food pornish poster, typically.)

There was a faint chill in the air, enough to have pondered "risotto....."  But I had just bought assorted organic maters/squashes at the growers' market. Hence, risotto with summer squash and onion/garlic, plus tomatoes with basil! Fantabulous.

Dry Riesling, too.

 

Military Rations: Something to Look Forward To

Via The Political Notebook

Food for War. Photojournalist Ashley Gilbertson (whom you may know from his mentions in Dexter Filkins’ unforgettable book, The Forever War), photographed the MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) of soldiers from different countries in the coalition in Iraq. The above is his photograph of a US soldier’s MRE. In his narrated slideshow of military rations in modern warfare, he says:

In combat, eating is often the only good thing about a day. When a soldier or marine sits down to warm up his M.R.E., he’s not being shot at, he’s not losing friends. It’s almost a ritual, and the very act of opening one of these packages suggests safety, however brief it may be.

To a lot of the troops from many nations that I’ve met, mealtimes are the only thing to look forward to – other, perhaps, than going home.

 

 

Further Fair Fare: Pie

Green chile and apple pie? Sure--but likely only at the New Mexico State Fair Asbury Cafe, the September mecca for pie-lovers and others who turn their backs on deep-fried Twinkies and other dreck. Since 1960, Asbury Cafe volunteers have been cooking/baking their little Presbyterian/Methodist hearts out, contributing all proceeds to worthy charities in the Albuquerque area, many of them food-related.

That little piece dangling down inside the pie below? Green chile with a light bite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We Are What We Eat?! A Visual Guide

Via The Atlantic

Chile Roasting Time

 A young friend of ours in Vermont loves roasting his own New Mexico chiles. So we sent him some, and here they be, along with the utterly appropriate brew.

Food Art: Penne

 
Watercolor thanks to Rossi Projects NY

Mona Cannot Lisa Nutella Alone....

 Who knew that there was a World Nutella Day?  But yes. It's coming up this winter, but I'm not telling when. Keep your hands off the stuff until then. Mona clearly is a fan, bigtime. This particular intersection of food and culture delights me, gotta say.

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Say Cheese!--- Food Art/Comics/Musings via Anne Emond

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