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Books & Other Media

Medium Raw, or Half Baked?

2010.Oct.02 Saturday

I disliked Kitchen Confidential. Let’s just get that out of the way with. Let the hate mail begin. Anthony Bourdain’s hate fueled rage against the restaurant industry machine that ground him up and spit him out (with his admitted acquiescence… no, active participation) was, for me, nothing more than misdirected venom spewing about his days [...]

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The Ole Switcharoo

2010.Sep.18 Saturday

 Ray Kinsella: I think I know what “If you build it, he will come” means. Annie Kinsella: Ooh… why do I not think this is such a good thing? Ray Kinsella: I think it means that if I build a baseball field out there that Shoeless Joe Jackson will get to come back and play [...]

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Would The China Study Turn You Vegetarian?

2010.Aug.16 Monday

 Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.” – Aaron Levenstein, retired professor For that matter, would any study turn you vegetarian, or change your diet in any particular way? The China Study came to my attention over dinner with one of my students, her husband, and a [...]

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Radio – On Local Food Trends

2010.Aug.03 Tuesday

I’ve gotten a few requests to post the links for the last radio show for people who missed it. The show, Rise & Shine, hosted by Al Adams, retired U.S. ambassador, is a local Saturday morning talk/interview format, with music, on Urbana FM 89.5. You can always go to their website to download and listen [...]

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On the Radio Again

2010.Apr.18 Sunday

Several people asked about where they could hear the first show I did with retired ambassador turned talk show host Alvin Adams on local radio Urbana FM, talking about the local food scene. You can go to their website and download the show to listen to at your leisure here (10.04.2010), or, you can listen [...]

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Travelin’, Nat Geo Style

2010.Feb.08 Monday

Just a quick note that I forgot to post here the other day (how odd, I did post it to Facebook and Twitter and completely neglected my own blog, what is the world coming to?) – a couple of months ago I spent an intensive foodie day with NatGeo Traveler writer and Moon Guide author [...]

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China Eggs

2009.Dec.16 Wednesday

 I try to stay true to my heart, true to the produce available in this country … so whatever comes out is modern Chinese, or Chinese-Australian.” – Kylie Kwong, Australian chef It should come as no surprise to anyone that I enjoy watching cooking shows. I always have, since the days when the only ones [...]

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The Golden Rule(s)?

2009.Nov.23 Monday

 When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.” – Walter Lippmann, Journalist The writing of a cooking book is a [...]

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Global Post

2009.Nov.06 Friday

Reporter Anil Mundra features Casa SaltShaker in a video presentation on puertas cerradas in BsAs.

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