5 posts tagged “food”
In reading Esquire's 60 Things Worth Shortening Your Life For, I found a few things that don't appeal to me...:
6. Lyle Sankey's "Vision Quest" Bull Riding Adventure Experience, Branson, Missouri.
25. Testing your cold-weather driving skills in Arjeplog, Sweden.
42. Secondhand smoking.
...Things that made me laugh:
31. Getting a Road Job.
Sometime before you die, and potentially right before, you must enjoy a blow job while driving a car in excess of eighty miles per hour. Everything about a blow job is better at high speed: the power, the thrill, the feeling you're about to lose control and leave a memorable obituary. A few caveats: The interior design of automobiles has changed since my road-job days, and it seems like it would be impractical in these newfangled models with their obstructive cupholders. It won't work in a Prius, for example, which is a damn shame, because imagine the self-satisfaction of zero-population-growth sex with low carbon emissions. It would probably work in a Hummer. Other considerations: It works best in the Great Plains, where the highways are long and straight; it's safer, and more fun, in broad daylight, particularly if you slow down as you pass a truck; and most important, drinking and driving and dunking don't mix. I can't recall exactly how you talk a woman into going down on you in a speeding car, though. I think it's mostly hand gestures.
-- Larry Doyle
...But mostly, things that sounded like I must try 'em. Mostly, it has to do with food:
1. Danger dogs.
2. Jersey breakfast dogs.
22. Oysters Mosca at Mosca's in Avondale, Louisiana.
26. Combo No. 4 at the Varsity in Athens, Georgia.
27. The dark-chocolate-and-peanut-butter gelato from Il Laboratorio del Gelato in New York.
28. The fugu (poisonous blowfish) tasting menu at Morimoto in New York and Philadelphia.
35. Duck-fat potatoes.
38. The Carpetbagger steak
44-48. The Five Most Decadent Burgers in the United States of America
And drink:
19. The Ramos ginfizz.
33. Drinking alone.
39. A "three-bagger" of Sazeracs at Tujague's.
I am *so* going to die early out of sheer indulgence. Oh, and this is a list from Esquire? Ah well, no one said chicks couldn't relate to this.
Hello?! IDEO and food? This sounds awesome, but it's such late notice...
International design firm IDEO (www.ideo.com) will be conducting an Iron Chef style Challenge on the subject of INDULGENCE on THURSDAY October 12th 6:00pm-9:30pm in the San Francisco area. We are seeking EXPERTS either in skill or knowledge around food. You will be compensated for your time plus yummy dinner!
What we seek:
You are a fine dining chef ? you create the menus at a restaurant
You are very skilled in food prep (chef/sous chef)
You are a Food Stylist
You a Food Critic writing about food
You work in gourmet food sales
You are a supermarket buyer of foods
You are a Personal Chef
You are a photographer of food
You are a Pastry Chef
You are a healthy food chef (vegan/raw/vegetarian)
Your expertise is making food ?look good? or ?sound good?
Other (please describe)Please fill-in the below questionnaire
All information is kept confidential.
Name:
Home Phone/Cell Phone:
E-mail:
Gender:
Address/location:
Age:
Ethnicity:
Married/Single/Divorced:
Occupation:
Number of Children and ages:
Do children live with you:
Please describe, in detail, how you fit into the above category?Do you go to specific places for your special ingredients for a meal? If yes, where?
Are you related to anyone at IDEO?
Have you done an IDEO interview before? If yes, how long ago and what was the subject?Thank you for your time. We can not respond to each e-mail but we will try!
Feel free to forward this e-mail to others.Cheers,
Dorinda
dorinda@ideo.com
Tonight, I have no obligations. My big photography assignment (and re-shoot) is done, and I have no social events to attend.
I am sufficiently full of Bibimbop from Hahn's Hibachi and really don't feel like accomplishing much else tonight. I don't think I *can* because I feel like a bump on a log.
Perhaps I shall go to sleep early. Perhaps to mess around with Electroplankton before passing out, which, BTW, is an excellent before-bed game. It's quite Zen and makes me feel peaceful.
*yawn* talk to you tomorrow.
If you could open any sort of restaurant, what would it be like?
Wow, THIS is a loaded question, me being a self-professed foodie and all. It's hard for me to decide on just one idea for an eating-type establishment.
First thing overall, the ingredients have to be fresh and preferably local. High quality ingredients always yield high quality results. I also like to patronize local farms and businesses to show my support. I try to follow the "quality not quantity" rule when it comes to food.
That said, this should also apply to the restaurant itself. It need not be large in square footage or fancily decorated. The food should be the main draw. There's no dress code to adhere to (but everyone should at least be clothed, heh). The atmosphere would be relaxing and conducive to conversations.
One existing place that kinda fits that description is Pizzetta 211. I think that is perhaps a good model for a decent restaurant. BTW, if you know of any others, please do feel free to share!
If I could open a coffee shop, well, that's a completely different entry to possibly come at another time. I have wayyyy too many ideas for one (or many) of those!
I love giving new life to leftovers.
Tonight, I took Mom's leftover skewers from yesterday's 4th of July BBQ, reheated them, took 'em off the skewers and tossed with Sartains Sauce. Boiled some yellow potatoes, then mashed them with chili powder, kosher salt, garlic powder and some Crema Mexicana Agria.
OMG, it was frickin' tasty. Damned good for simply making it up on the fly.
