Outer Rim Territories

Memories of Second David CURF days. Late night runs for double dogs with fries. Genius.

[Photographs: Nick Kindelsperger]

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Cooking “is a very calming ritual. Its a different kind of stress relief than I get doing anything else,” said the creator/star during a break from taping the show. “Slicing, dicing and chopping — the rhythm of that is something I enjoy and find relaxing. But I also really, really, really like to knead dough. I like the physical action of getting my hands into it. … I find that physically rewarding.”Whether its biscuit making or “throwing something together” for dinner in 30 minutes, he finds “the labor of the kitchen, the doing of cooking and things in the kitchen to be amazingly stress reducing,” Brown said.

via Cook to soothe the spirit – chicagotribune.com.

[...] “No, you’re right.  The book is good.  Americans are being taught we’re too stupid to cook and it’s simply not true.”

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As for its origins, the debate continues. Depending on the source, the turducken might be the creation of chef Paul Prudhomme, or it may have originated at Hebert's Specialty Meats in Maurice, La., a shop that has sold turduckens since 1985.

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Yum. Sugar Cream Pie. Persimmon Pie. Watch the terrific interview about pies, Indiana, and tradition.

Sky Full of Bacon 13: Pie As a Lifestyle on Vimeo on Vimeo

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Skip the first 10:20. Typical Alton brilliance.
YouTube - Food Network & Google Celebrate Thanksgiving.

I consider myself indicted. Grabbing is not nice.

The truth, of course, is that this nasty little piece of jargon has been rudely shoved into our language. Marketers love to foment the notion that we are all ‘cash-rich and time-poor’. If they can encourage the belief that we all work too hard we’ll feel better about the expensive little ‘indulgences’ with which we can ‘treat’ ourselves. Go on, have a lovely milky beverage, a bath full of skin-irritating bubbles and light a candle that smells like a hooker’s handbag – you’re so ‘hassled’, so ‘stressed’ by daily life that you know you deserve to treat yourself.

And of course, you busy little consumption unit, you just love to grab a coffee don’t you? We love it too. We love that you come into our retail experience environment, give us the money as fast as humanly possible, pick up the steaming product and then piss off back into the street where you no longer cost us heat, light, groundrent and attention. Quick, quick. Grab n’go. Get the hell out so we can move the next one in and strip them of their cash too.

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