It's Not Just Me

Last Friday I wrote a "foaming at the mouth" post about the stupid NYT op-ed essay Math Lessons For Locavores by Stephen Budiansky.

It did my heart good to see that I wasn't the only person who thought it was a waste of space.

Yesterday I saw on the Huffington Post an article by Kerry Trueman which nicely discusses this exercise in stupid generalizations and deliciously takes Mr. Budiansky's piece apart limb by limb.

And the chorus of voices increases, this just in from Grist.

Framers Market Desserts

Usually I only try to publish recipes I've created or at least tried and fiddled with, but this looks so good and is from a book very much after my own thinking I'm going to take a chance.

Farmers' Market Desserts by Jennie Schacht (Chronicle Books, May 2010) is as the title suggests a market driven dessert book and seeing as how strawberries are now at the market this seemed like the perfect dessert to highlight. Grist.org publish the recipe.

Review of Meatless Turkey

Grist gives a funny and thorough review of 4 different veggie faux Turkey items available this holiday season.

Here have something out of a box for that special harvest festival meal, nothing says farm fresh, seasonal and organic like something boxed in cardboard and wrapped in plastic!

My two cents: they all look awful and are so filled with things I think you'd be better off just forging ahead and having a truly interesting meal made up of ingredients that you can actually pronounce. Years ago when I first came here I was living with a Canadian friend of mine from university, our holiday tradition was to go for Indian food on 6th street, just a thought...in Canada Thanksgiving isn't as big a deal as it is here.