What they want you to see when you’re shopping: 90 calories and 650 mg of sodium per serving. What they don’t want you to notice: “About 2.5 servings per container”. Who carefully measures 40% of the contents of a soup can into a saucepan or microwave dish? Nobody. If you eat[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Food’
Florida governor forces residents to eat meat
GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed legislation banning the sale of lab-grown meat in Florida. Lab-grown meat is “produced in steel tanks using cells from a living animal,” and is different from plant-based proteins, Huffington Post says (read article here). Sounds like cloning to me. DeSan[...]
October 10th, 2019 - 7:59 am § in Racism, The Ave Scene
Seattle’s Great Southern Chef
“When you think other careers like an engineer, no one says, ‘I’m a great black engineer.’ No. Just, ‘I’m a great engineer.’ My fear was that people would recognize me as a black chef instead of just a great chef.” – EDUARDO JORDAN (Huff Post by ByTamara Gane, G[...]
November 13th, 2018 - 9:27 am § in The Ave Scene
Two Seattle Restaurants Make Best In US
2M Smokehouse, San Antonio, TX | Al Ameer, Dearborn, MI | Atelier Crenn, San Francisco, CA | Bad Saint, Washington, DC | Bateau, Seattle, WA | ★ Benu, San Francisco, CA | Bertha’s Kitchen, North Charleston, SC | ★ Blue Hill at Stone Barns, Pocantico Hills, NY | Brennan’s, New Orleans[...]
April 2nd, 2017 - 6:16 pm § in Misc.
Eating The Fish That Kills
(MORGAN DUNN … THE Australian) I realised I had been poisoned immediately after swallowing the fish. My heart started hammering, a flush rushed through me and I felt as though I were slowly pulling backwards out of my body. At the door, out of the corner of my eye, I could see a shinigami (g[...]
October 5th, 2016 - 8:37 pm § in America, The Ave Scene
Adversity is Nothing #2
Up until the friendly match that Avery and I played last Sunday against a Croatian team that is participating in the actual basketball tournament, my time in Malaysia has been cool. The two other import players from America are really good basketball players. The food has been amazing, with the exce[...]
August 12th, 2016 - 10:33 am § in Misc.
The Millenium Has Come ..Even to Dick’s!
Dick’s Drive-In to accept debit and credit cards by September After 62 years of accepting only cash, Dick’s Drive-In will also be accepting credit… Share KIRO7.COM|BY CASEY MCNERTHNEY[...]
March 24th, 2016 - 1:25 am § in The Ave Scene
Oh OH! .. No Tipping Hurts the Waiters!
The End of Automatic Tipping Has Devastated Restaurant Paychecks Photo: AP Unless you work in a restaurant, you may not have noticed that many restaurants no longer include “automatic gratuities” on the checks of large groups. But if you do work in a restaurant, this little change may have lef[...]
September 29th, 2015 - 4:36 am § in The Ave Scene
Chum is cheap, is Kita Good?
Ever consider eating Kita? Or do you feed it to your cat? How many times have I told visitors not to eat Kita? Kita is the name Ivars’ puts on the chum salmon, cheap stuff we in Seattle also call catfood. Kevin Bailey of Crosscut claims that chum has gotten a bad rap over the years. [&hel[...]
How to eat lobster AND lose calories!
As a hereditary guru on eating Homerus americanus, I recommend folks bring one more tool to a lobster feed … kitchen shears! The best way of eating our New England red bug is to turn the Homer on its back. Insert a scissors into the tiny circle just above the flippers at the end of the [&he[...]