As if hormones in our beef weren’t bad enough, now the FDA has decided that cloned animals can be the source of our meat and milk. Eating organic may help those who don’t want their beef and milk engineered, but that’s not guaranteed since labeling probably won’t be required. This is a frightening development. For [...]
If Robert LaVala and Jill Slater have their way, New York will have a new market soon. The two are passionate about food and about developing a year around, indoor, public market in New York on the site of the old Fulton Fish Market. They hope the New Amsterdam Market will be home to purveyors [...]
We spent Xmas, as always, with friends in DC eating Chinese and seeing movies. But this Xmas was special. The Yenching Palace was closing and we had to bid this institution on the corner of Connecticut Ave. and Porter Street in the Cleveland Park neighborhood of DC, adieu.
Some have referred to the Yenching (known [...]
The other night, we went to see “Shut Up and Sing,” the Dixie Chick’s anthem to free speech. These women rock: on the road, making great music together, and they bring their kids along for the ride. They endured a lot of flack for their 2003 remark that they were embarrassed to [...]
The Amateur Gourmet has a great piece on making latkes, the traditional Hanukkah potato pancake. Apparently, everyone contributed to the process and felt connected to the latkes they were eating. This is kind of like reading the provenance of the pig that generated the pork chop on my plate at NY restaurants keen to [...]
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