They had to get it off their chests: It sucks being a Hooters girl, and not just because you're expected to pose with a dweeb in a Ruck Fules! tee. MenuPages reveals the lawsuit eight former tank-top-wearin' servers have brought against four local Hooters eateries (who knew there were that many?) for alleged exploitation. Be appalled. Be very appalled.
Say it ain't so: Kurt Michael Friese goes all Orwellian gloomy, ticking off recent examples of hypocritespeak in the world of food marketing: Lay's potato chips as "local food," Monsanto as a company dedicated to "sustainability," and even Oprah (PETA's person of the year for 2008) getting into bed with KFC. Righteous outrage can be cleansing; get a bracing whiff at Grist.
We're already on record as being a huge fan of Weird Fish, the tiny sustainable-fish-and-vegetables spot in the Mission, so we were eager to see what the owners would do with the space just two doors down (separated by a donut shop) at the corner of Mission and 18th. They named it, simply, The Corner, leaving the Chinese characters from a previous tenant visible under a coat of matte black paint.
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"We did carry goose foie gras, and we did take it off," Dorpat said. Costco.com offered canned foie gras from a French producer as a seasonal item starting in September. Dorpat declined to say how much foie the $72 billion retailer based in Issaquah, Wash., typically sold, though he said the amount wasn't large. "This was not a million-dollar decision," he said.
Students will practice on legs of lamb, learning how to hold a knife, strip away silverskin, and locate a ball joint. Chickens follow, but as for the climactic pig-butchering, Adler plans to demo that herself. "I don't want to hand over the cleaver too soon -- it can be kind of overwhelming." The butchered meats are destined for a hot grill, served up with veggies and herbs from Guggiana's garden. There'll be wine, not to mention the kind of fellowship that comes from rendering beasts into edible cuts.
Fat is an integral part of our diet, but its popularity tanked in the 1950s when it became associated with cholesterol, then fingered as a leading cause of heart disease. McLagan makes the case that such a cause-and-effect relationship was inherently flawed, since many cultures with diets high in saturated fat do not have correspondingly stratospheric rates of heart disease (see the butter-loving French and the blubber-loving Inuit).
The Salumi Cycle will be at Sutter & Montgomery at 12:30pm with prosciutto panini ($8 each) See you there! http://twitpic.com/65v7t
Happy snarfing, porkhounds!
