Friday
The Magnifecent Seven Year Itch
Every summer, a number of different venues in New York show free outdoor movies. For my own convenience, and yours, I've complied a calendar of all of them.
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Monday
Seriously, American culture is increasingly food-focused
Read Henley on omnivores, vegans, the different ways in which they sometimes upset each other, and especially the last paragraph about the value of marginal changes in individual food consumption patterns, which is a point I've made before, at least in person, and I think on this blog as well.
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Thursday
Food culture
More meat related content, because I was surprised by the coincidence of seeing this article soon after posting on the hot-button medium-rare issue. Personally, my trust in the Burger of the Month Club's judgment started waning with the very first anecdote, talking about how important it was that everyone tried the half pound burger, with bacon and cheddar. A half pound is generally too large to maintain proper ratios between the meat patty, bun, and any cheese, vegetable, condiment, additional meat, or other extra touch. Further, while cheddar isn't generally a strong cheese, and I'm a fan of bleu cheese burgers myself, if you're trying to accurately judge the burger then layering bacon and cheddar on top of it is just going to get in the way of discerning the quality of the burger itself.
Also, I hold it against them that they're part of the backlash against Shake Shack's popularity. Yes, the line is obviously annoying, and the fact that the line is one reason people go there (seeing that it's popular and wanting to be part of the popularity) is even more so. But the burger is actually excellent, and I don't know why they'd pretend otherwise. The real mistake is to think it's name is making a stronger claim than it is and go there just for a shake, which is not worth braving the line for.
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Also, I hold it against them that they're part of the backlash against Shake Shack's popularity. Yes, the line is obviously annoying, and the fact that the line is one reason people go there (seeing that it's popular and wanting to be part of the popularity) is even more so. But the burger is actually excellent, and I don't know why they'd pretend otherwise. The real mistake is to think it's name is making a stronger claim than it is and go there just for a shake, which is not worth braving the line for.
Wednesday
I'll gladly pay you tomorrow
My practice is universally to order steaks, hamburgers, and most any other product on which the option is available medium-rare without giving any thought to the particular circumstances the cow which became my meat was raised in (grass-fed, organic, not) which cut or cuts are being used to assemble the burger, or any facts about the manner in which the meat is being cooked (on burgers, largely grill versus griddle, on steaks, other concerns). This has worked pretty well for me, in the sense that my food tastes good, and I've avoided mockery from friends and wait-staff who think it's a waste to order good steak cooked any more than that. And it looks like I've been ordering correctly, but if I want to be a real epicure (and I do!), I need to put a lot more thought into the whys of my order.
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Friday
Remember when I totally ducked John Fund?
Over a week after it was timely, but I just read David Silbey's This Day in History for April 21st, relating what current Senator, then Second Lieutenant, Daniel Inouye, was doing on 4/21/45, and wanted to recommend that everyone else do likewise.
Referents in that sentence could probably be a little clearer, I guess.
And, while I'm frequently deliberately obscure with the connection between a post and its title, or even have no connection in mind, here's the reference for this post title, and why I'm thinking about that post while writing this one.
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Referents in that sentence could probably be a little clearer, I guess.
And, while I'm frequently deliberately obscure with the connection between a post and its title, or even have no connection in mind, here's the reference for this post title, and why I'm thinking about that post while writing this one.
