Edible and Audible

Poland – come for the culture, stay for the food. My wife and I recently took a week-long trip to Poland, partially because we’ve been intrigued by Poland for some time, partially because we really needed a vacation, and partially because the Unsound festival, one of the leading experimental music festivals in the world, was [...]

Homemade pasta – some flour, some eggs, a little oil – how fucking hard could it be? If you’ve spent any time in my kitchen the last few years you would know the answer to that is “apparently very”. I’ve tried all sorts of recipes with small victories along the way, but at the end I’m always left with that feeling of dread, knowing that I would have be better off lighting the pasta dough on fire than adding insult by ingesting some inedible rubbery crap only for purposes of justifying the effort that I put into making it. The other night I had a breakthrough, a pasta dough that came together and produced a lovely pasta meal, one I was proud (or at least less ashamed) to serve and eat.

A few links for today:

Life and sounds of a pig
Electronic music artist Matthew Herbert is trying to make an album based on sounds from the life of an industrially-raised pig to raise awareness of where our food comes from. PETA over-reacts.

Illegal Infusions
Bars in California are beginning to be penalized for house infusions, let’s hope this doesn’t spread.

Drinking in the future
Alex Day, formerly of Death and Company, gives interesting insight on why suspenders and handlebar mustaches may no longer be “necessary” in finer drinking establishments.

A funny thing happened this past summer. Against all odds, a clumsy in the kitchen, never liked to cook, not even remotely domesticated woman took first place at the NJ State Fair for an apple pie baked in a flimsy disposable aluminum pie pan.