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Parents Against Junk Food

We are a non profit organization devoted to eliminating junk food from our public school system. No sodas. No candy bars. No chips. No processed lunch or foods of minimal nutritional value. Let’s ask our public schools to feed both body and mind properly, to take seriously their role as guardians of our children’s health and welfare.

Michael Ruhlman on hypocritical dinners

Apparently a New Jersey politician, freshman assemblyman Michael Panter, next week will introduce a bill to ban the SALE of foie gras in and out of state.

at megnut.com

Last night I had dinner with four adults. One couple and one woman were accompanied by their babies (both well under the age of two). We were at a popular restaurant, but arrived at 6:30 when it was still empty. Over the course of two hours, we ordered appetizers, main courses, and dessert. We also ordered two bottles of wine.

During that time, the server was so-so in his attention to us.

Bill Buford on Food TV

The first sign that I’d been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I’d been making toast. “First, we cut our bread,” I whispered. “Do you know why?” I stopped what I was doing and looked up. “Let me tell you why.” It was eight-thirty. It was also Hour 25 of a seventy-two-hour commitment I’d made to watch continuous food television (sleeping only when the shows began repeating at midnight).

from the New York Times Blog

A woman answers. I tell her I’m interested in June. She says they’re booked solid, lunch and dinner, every available day, through July 7th, and July 7th is the last day for which they’re taking reservations right now. Oh, they have a cancellation on June 6th, party of four, 10 P.M.What about a time earlier than that?

No, nothing, except for lunch tomorrow, due to a cancellation. No thanks; no can do. She says I can start calling about July 8 tomorrow, which will be May 8. But, she says, “I’d call as close to 10 A.M. as possible, because we’re usually completely booked within 15 to 20 minutes.” You have got to be kidding me. So: if you have a schedule that does not normally leave you free between 10 and 10:20 A.M. East Coast time, forget Per Se. You’ll never eat there. At least not during this millennium.

from the New York Times

“In one of the more unlikely (and opulent) demonstrations of civil disobedience, a handful of restaurants here that never carry foie gras, the fattened livers of ducks and geese, featured it on the very day that Chicago became the first city in the nation to outlaw sale of the delicacy.”

The New Yorker: PARADISE SOLD

What are you buying when you buy organic?

The Customer Wants a Juicy Steak? Just Add Water - New York Times

A story on “enhancing” lean or poor cuts of meat by injecting water and salt.