Lotus Tea

post from Cooking with Amy: A Food Blog on 13 January 2007 10:46:00 PM. © Cooking with Amy: A Food Blog

When you are in Hanoi or Saigon it's easy to forget how most of Vietnam is rural. Driving through[...]

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Wine tasting for everyday folks and kitchen work
for team building

post from Food Notebook on 13 January 2007 10:11:44 PM. © Food Notebook

The Good Gray Lady had two interesting food articles today, neither of which were in the Arts & Leisure section. On the Front Page there was Wielding Kitchen Knives and Honing Office Skills about companies that are using cooking classes as team building exercises. I always hated those idiotic canoe races or rope courses for team building so I think this is a real improvement. The second, Wine Tastings Loosen Up. Butter Pecan With That Cabernet?, was on page one of the Business Day section. This article was about how home and retail wine tasting are getting more relaxed and less snobbish. Hmm, I think this is also a good trend because the less snobbish wine is perceived the more non-wine drinkers will try it. Both articles are a fun read.

* New York Times articles are available free on www.nytimes.com for about a week. After that you either have to purchase the article for $5, sign up for TimesSelect ($8 month, $50 year) or be a subscriber to the newspaper.

Food Notebook post by Carter Lusher.

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Teriyaki Boy

post from Pinoy Cook: Connie Veneracion's food and cooking blog on 13 January 2007 05:59:00 PM. © Pinoy Cook: Connie Veneracion's food and cooking blog

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Sunchoke (Jerusalem Artichoke) Salad

post from Just Braise on 13 January 2007 05:09:00 PM. © Just Braise

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culinary resolutions

post from cooking vintage on 13 January 2007 04:35:00 PM. © cooking vintage

It's still January, still fair to be making resolutions. So here are mine:

1. Make pasta from scratch. I'll have 2 good step-by-step blog posts to guide me, here and here.

2. Finally finish renovating the kitchen. I want to have all my spices in one place again!

3. Try making dishes from a new-to-me ethnic cuisine. Thai? Moroccan? or maybe explore my own culinary roots--Slovak/Eastern European. (I also have Scottish roots, but I'm not sure I want to make a haggis.)

4. Make pierogies from scratch (my ethnic roots!).

5. Utilize my cookbook collection more. I have a tendency to covet and collect and then just hoard things--so maybe I ought to make a recipe a week from one or another of them.

6. Make an effort to shop, cook, and eat more adventurously. Find out what galangal is. Buy a quince or some kumquats. Make some pickled turnips!

7. Collect the family recipes, which is something I've been meaning to do for a long time and haven't.

8. Make a kitchen inventory: do I really want to do this? or is it just a fantasy, like the one where all my books are alphabetized and ordered by genre and subject?

9. Stop eating things I don't like, or don't like much, and eat only things I love. No more of those muffins from Starbucks. No more processed cheese or stale doughnuts at work functions. (Make my own doughnuts! if I make pompkushki, it will be more of the ethnic roots thing.)

For some other posts on food-related resolutions and plans, see Food and Thoughts and Hooked on Heat; and for a great retrospective list of her favorite 2006 recipes, see La Tartine Gourmande.

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Michael Pollan in Conversation with Whole Food's
CEO John Mackey!

post from eggbeater on 13 January 2007 03:11:48 PM. © eggbeater

or, "What I'm Looking Forward To ~"

Plans in the future can make all the difference.

Something to hold onto. To look forward to.

The mouth waters.

Memories come forth, rise to the surface like cream.

Years ago, when I was pursuing a BFA in photography at CCAC, I worked at Whole Foods Market. I know, I know-- I'm not proud. But if one day you have about an hour to spend, and want to buy me a tall glass of tea, I'll tell you about the details of my interesting time there:

1. I used their ridiculous "team member process" to its fullest extent by taking a team vote and "firing" our out-of-control "team leader,"

2. Was subpoenaed on site by a Union Lawyer when one of my co-workers was being denied her unemployment, only to be her witness against the VP of operations,

3. Was "blacklisted" inside a store with over 300 employees,

4. Was fired illegally (WF broke a Federal Labor Law that's been in existence since the 1920's),

5. Took them to the NLRB,

6. Won when they settled with me out of court,

7. Was reinstated with back pay,

8. And took great pleasure in telling each customer who had missed me, the whole story when I went back.

9. After going to all the correct managers with the complaint that there was no ventilation system in the bakery, I reported the store to OSHA. After the threat from OSHA for a $10,000 fine, Whole Foods installed a ventilation system. (Flour is considered as dangerous as asbestos by OSHA, BTW...),

So you can imagine my pleasure at seeing this headline at Life Begins @ Thirty:

John Mackey & Michael Pollan on the Same Stage!

Read the rest of the news at The Ethicurian.

Who wants to bring a picnic to the line we'll need to stand on/in to get the free tickets February 1st?

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Food links

Ethanol's effect: Expensive tortillas "Tortilla prices have jumped nearly 14 percent over the past year, a move the head of Mexico's central bank called "unjustifiable" in a country where inflation ran about 4 percent." Excellent set of articles on Oysters...

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New Media Roundup - 01/13/07 Pinot Trends, Wine
Auctions,

The Prince of Pinot's 1/2/07 PinotFile has a good round up of Pinot Noir trends, market info and fun facts in 2006.One of the amusing sections is on catchy Pinot words like Label kisser: devotee of a particular wine label regardless of the quality of the wine inside. Vitanmin P: Pinot Noir. Cult Noir: Pinot lovers. PinotFile is an amazing and *free* newsletter for fans of Pinot. I'm sure Miles was a charter subscriber.

Alert about a new blog in town The Art of Tasting Chocolate by Karletta Moniz. Guess what topic it covers. Give up? Chocolate! Karletta is a chef, food consultant and writer. Her other blog is Culinary Muse, which is fun to read. So click over to The Art of Chocolate and see what sweet things she has to say.

Wine auctions always seem a bit mysterious to me. The Wine Spectator's vodcast Wine Auctions! is pretty interesting in how provides insight into how these events take place and how to understand your limits on bidding. This particular episode is not yet on the Wine Spectator On-line site, but is available on iTunes.

Heidi at 101 Cookbooks, which focuses on cooking, has a quick recipe for Simple Butternut Squash Tart, which uses puff pastry and goat cheese. Besides being a great writer, Heidi is also a professional photographer. So in addition to the stories about the recipes, the accompanying photos are beautiful.

In Slate, Daniel Gross has an interesting article Why Whole Food's stock is tanking and shouldn't be. Also available as a podcast.

Food Notebook post by Carter Lusher. Tip o' the hat to the bloggers and podcasters who pour their love for food and drink in the Bay Area and elsewhere into their blogs and podcasts.

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