Mookie fact of the day

The handbag of an average woman is 87% more likely to contain traces of salmonella than an average chicken.

Mookie fact of the day

It is healthier to eat dessert before dinner.

True Story Tuesday: Those veggies on the first lawn

Hey Alice Waters...

Check this out!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/20/white.house.garden/index.html

Semla time

Stockholm style...

http://www.pastan.nu/ataute/vete-katten-gor-stockholms-basta-semla-1.486360

Mookie says:

Sometimes we feast

Mookie says: being sixth is like being third twice, Chef Timothy Hollingsworth

Being sixth is really like being third twice.

So let me tell you a little something about being third...

In a recent text convo with fellow fantasy league player who shall remain anonymous, Mookie reflected on the meaning of ranks and has now realized how a certain basketball situation can be just like Timothy's experience at Bocuse d'Or.

Basketball Jones:
P: Nr one in fantasy again
mookie: ooooohhhh

mookie: what's my rank?
P: I will not lose... Nr 3 as always
mookie: hahah!!! Number 3, loyalty before dishonesty, the mookie code of conduct
p: Write it in your blog
mookie: number one and two will destroy each other and out of the smoke the number 3 will conquer all. Mookie through the ruins with sword in hand to triumph the basketball fantasy league and claim the crown!!!!

The moral of the story is: Timothy, Sweden and Norway will kill each other, twice, and you will be number 1. 

So, hey. Mookie salutes.

http://www.bocusedor.com/2009/en/index.php

Chef Timothy Hollingsworth

CA was in France.

I said the kitchen prayer, but alas, it went to a Norwegian and the Swede snagged second place...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bocuse-award29-2009jan29,0,6477874.story

read this too:

http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/beyond-the-bocuse-dor/?hp

True Story Tuesday: pt. 2, inauguration moments and junk food

watching the first couple dance and crying my eyes out over a chili-dog.

Presidential food

Yes, 

It's true, Cristeta Comerford is staying at The White House. 

Now we just need to wait and see if Alice Waters and co finally get what they always wanted: An organic garden on the "first lawn". I say yes! 

P.S. Check out the Lincoln menu...

http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-inaugural14-2009jan14,0,5905247.story

food police at it again...

I need you bad like the food I eat?!?!??!?

Lollipop

Mookie's pissed. Don't fuck with the food.

What the fuck is this??

I order tea at a Cincinnati Airport Starbucks: "with honey please"

Then I get this. 

I probably wouldn't have noticed a thing, cause it looked just like the real deal.

But nooooo...

Read it and weep:

Honey, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, corn syrup, natural flavoring, caramel color

Mookie is pissed.

Bring back the bear!

Artificial bullshit junk saturated with garbage ingredients masquerading as a decent product = pure evil = The reason why people can't taste anything and are addicted to fast crappy food.

Sure, it didn't help the barista's case that I was all worked up, reading a biography about Chez Panisse and Alice Waters - the founder of California Cuisine, an avid organic spokesperson and American member of the Italian Slow Food movement. Poor Megan in the green smock had it coming. 

But with my favorite holiday just around the corner, I figured it was perfect timing for a little reminder to eat good. She understood in the end.

It's a bird... It's a plane... no it's bombed ice cream

Copenhagen style

If you don't know, now you know

These dames had it down. 

Butter and booze in all the food. 

Sometimes the fall of great things goes under the radar... 

Ten days before her death 9 years ago, Jennifer Paterson had met with her friend and colleague Clarissa Dickson Wright, who had brought caviar. 

"She didn't see the point of flowers - she'd rather have caviar."

Here's a WAY delayed tribute.

RIP VIP 1999