Julia's Love Child

Jul 6 2010
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“[In America] to savor food, to conceive of a meal as an aesthetic experience, has been regarded as evidence of effeteness, a form of foreign foppery.

Few things have been more likely to get an American political candidate in hot water than a taste for fine food, as Martin Van Buren discovered in his failed 1840 reelection campaign. Van Buren had brought a French chef to the White Hose, a blunder seized upon by his opponent, William Henry Harrison, who made much of the fact that he subsisted on ‘raw beef and salt.’”

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Michael Pollan, “In Defense of Food” (via caro)
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Jun 2 2010
"Critics spend a lot of time eating the roast chicken, the mashed potatoes with chives, the steak frites, all the standard meat-and-taties entrees that average diners get all the time. So when a delicate little octopus liver comes along, poached in monkey blood, with a veal-and-cocoa ganache? It’s all they want to try."
Sam Sifton, on why food critics often write about the esoteric. Poor things. This must also be why fashion magazines (and the NYT Style section) only write about super-expensive designer clothes—because they’re bored. It’s not because they are ignoring the fact that their readers can’t afford what they’re covering. (via shutupfoodies)
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May 20 2010
I am absolutely and positively in love with the nature inspired jewelry of Natasa Milenovic. I spotted this necklace at the Salamanca market in Hobart, Tasmania last weekend, and while it was a little out of my price range, a girl can wish…  

I am absolutely and positively in love with the nature inspired jewelry of Natasa Milenovic. I spotted this necklace at the Salamanca market in Hobart, Tasmania last weekend, and while it was a little out of my price range, a girl can wish…  

May 5 2010
eatyourchow: In honor of tomorrow’s Cinco de Mayo festivities (and the fact that it is pretty much impossible to get a table at any NYC Mexican restaurant), here’s a great list of inventive food and drink recipes you can make at home, from CHOW. And some additional drink concoctions here. This picture looked so good that I actually made quesadillas tonight for post-hike snacks.  Though getting ingredients in Australia is… interesting.  No Mexicans, no Cinco de Mayo, and just a small Old El Paso section at the grocery store.  But still, yum.  Nothing like cheesy, black bean filled toasted quesadillas with a healthy scoop of guacamole on top.

eatyourchow:

In honor of tomorrow’s Cinco de Mayo festivities (and the fact that it is pretty much impossible to get a table at any NYC Mexican restaurant), here’s a great list of inventive food and drink recipes you can make at home, from CHOW.

And some additional drink concoctions here.

This picture looked so good that I actually made quesadillas tonight for post-hike snacks.  Though getting ingredients in Australia is… interesting.  No Mexicans, no Cinco de Mayo, and just a small Old El Paso section at the grocery store.  But still, yum.  Nothing like cheesy, black bean filled toasted quesadillas with a healthy scoop of guacamole on top.

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May 5 2010
Best cookie ever.  I have a slightly ridiculous obsession with them, beginning with the order in which I eat it (mouth, nose, eyes).  I feel sort of silly every time I order one, and yet I love them so!   P.S. Lurid pink smiley face cookies can be sourced at various cafes around Adelaide, but my favorite spot and occasion is at the top of Mt. Lofty following a trudge up from Waterfall Gully.

Best cookie ever.  I have a slightly ridiculous obsession with them, beginning with the order in which I eat it (mouth, nose, eyes).  I feel sort of silly every time I order one, and yet I love them so!  

P.S. Lurid pink smiley face cookies can be sourced at various cafes around Adelaide, but my favorite spot and occasion is at the top of Mt. Lofty following a trudge up from Waterfall Gully.

May 2 2010
Typing a search request into Google sometimes gives me a big giggle.  It’s like a window into the collective mind.  For the record, I was about to query “how long are iTunes movie rentals” since it’s not clear in the iTunes store, and I’m kind of curious to try out a movie rental since there’s no Netflix in Australia, and honestly, I can’t be bothered to go the the video store.  Anyway, it appears the rest of Australia is thinking about eggs, sperm, babies and putting various things in the oven, so to speak.  And Avatar.

Typing a search request into Google sometimes gives me a big giggle.  It’s like a window into the collective mind.  For the record, I was about to query “how long are iTunes movie rentals” since it’s not clear in the iTunes store, and I’m kind of curious to try out a movie rental since there’s no Netflix in Australia, and honestly, I can’t be bothered to go the the video store.  Anyway, it appears the rest of Australia is thinking about eggs, sperm, babies and putting various things in the oven, so to speak.  And Avatar.

May 1 2010
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We dug in. We ate everything there was to eat on the table. We ate like there was no tomorrow. We didn’t talk. We ate. We scarfed. We grazed the table. We were into serious eating. The blind man had right away located his foods, he knew just where everything was on his plate. I watched with admiration as he used his knife and fork on the meat. He’d cut two pieces of the meat, fork the meat into his mouth, and then go all out for the scalloped potatoes, the beans next, and then he’d tear off a hunk of buttered bread and eat that. He’d follow this up with a big drink of milk. It didn’t seem to bother him to use his fingers once in a while, either.

We finished everything, including half a strawberry pie. For a few moments, we sat as if stunned. Swear beaded on our faces. Finally, we got up from the table and left the dirty plates. We didn’t look back.

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from Cathedral by Raymond Carver, possibly one of my favorite short stories of all time.