January 20, 2011, 8:00 PM |
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(in response to this essay by Hannah Hayes: “An open letter to Anthony Bourdain, a chef who hates my dad”)
I applaud and respect your loyalty to your Dad–and your impassioned and articulate defense. As a father myself, I would be very proud. And I do not for a second, see your Dad as some evil mad doctor, deliberately doing bad things to our food supply. I am not even–in principle (unlike many of my chef peers)–opposed to big producers or feed lot raised beef–or even “processed food. I AM, however against the whole idea that any corporate entity did, would, should or could feel it necessary or expedient to use ammonia in a meat product. Especially our beloved national dish, the hamburger. It is, unfortunately, my distinct impression and belief that Cargill has made use of a supplier who DOES treat meat with ammonia. I quote the New York Times below:
Continue reading: DEAR HANNAH »
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January 14, 2011, 4:50 PM |
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I want to urge you again to watch a really good new show on Travel. Yes. My own network. My friends and long time partners at Zero Point Zero Production have, for the last year, been humping up mountains and hanging from cliffs with an astonishingly interesting, articulate and foolhardy young man named Steven Rinella. He’s the author of a terrific book you might have read called “The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine” and a correspondent for OUTSIDE magazine. The series they made together (to the usual ZPZ high standards), is called THE WILD WITHIN and a new episode airs, THIS SUNDAY at 9PM.
You know you’re not watching another ordinary travel and food show when the host, very early in the first episode, walks you through his apartment in Brooklyn, shows you a freezer, announces “It’s time to go get some meat”. Then flies to a remote part of Alaska to fill it up and feed his family.
Continue reading: “EVERYBODY EATS BACON BUT NO ONE WANTS TO STAB THE PIG” – THE WILD WITHIN »
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January 9, 2011, 10:52 AM |
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Finishing up in Boston today after a really good time. For what is supposedly the heart of enemy territory, this Yankee fan has to admit he was treated very, very well.
Of course, I knew from the start that this was going to be all good. Except maybe the candlepin bowling–at which, it turns out, I profoundly suck. It did not help that after every gutter ball, the old guy in the Sox cap a few lanes down would jokingly yell: “Nice one, Jeter!”
Before getting in the car for the drive home, a quick re-pack and a plane to Eric Ripert’s yearly Cayman Food and Wine Festival, I want to take a minute to urge you to watch a really good show tonight on Travel. Yes. My own network. My friends and long time partners at ZeroPointZero Production have, for the last year, been humping up mountains and hanging from cliffs with an astonishingly interesting, articulate and foolhardy young man named Steven Rinella. He’s the author of a terrific book you might have read called “The Scavenger’s Guide to Haute Cuisine“–and a correspondent for OUTSIDE magazine. The series they made together (to the usual ZPZ high standards), is called THE WILD WITHIN and it debuts tonight, SUNDAY at 9PM.
Continue reading: STRAIGHT OUTTA BOSTON–AND THE WILD WITHIN »
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