ATL Food. Homegrown Wagyu Brings Japan's Best Beef to U.S. | Clifford A. Wright. Not many people eat a steak they love so much they become a rancher, but, in essence, that’s what Robert Estrin did. In the mid-1990s, Bob and his wife Mary Lloyd Estrin began to operate Lone Mountain Cattle Company in Golden, N.M., raising Angus beef. Then in 2004, Bob, a retired film editor (“The Candidate,” “Badlands” and “A River Runs Through It”) and former professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, who was raised in southeastern New Mexico, tasted Wagyu beef at a Japanese restaurant and that was that. Bob Estrin Soon he and Mary took over Mary’s family’s cattle ranch and began a fullblood Wagyu breeding program using modern breeding techniques, including artificial insemination and embryo transfer. They wanted Lone Mountain Ranch to become a model of sustainable yet profitable practices.
Their commercial breeding operation pitches other ranchers with the slogan “Take your herd beyond prime with fullblood Wagyu.” Wagyu beef a personal favorite. My dinner with Nancy Pelosi#comments. My dinner at Aziza with Nancy Pelosi Radishes, carrots and turnips in edible soil Nancy Pelosi after our 3+ hour meal at Aziza The one request Nancy Pelosi’s staff delivered to Mourad Lahlou at Aziza was that the Minority Leader of the House loves dark chocolate and that he should incorporate that ingredient in some of the courses, if possible.
In fact, during our 3-plus hour meal, she talked of dark chocolate with the same zeal and studied approach as she did about the Defense of Marriage Act, the Affordable Care Act and her annual Mother’s Day visit to troops in warring countries. By some miraculous quirk I still don’t fully comprehend I had a one-on-one dinner Friday night with Pelosi, who has been one of my idols for her commitment to public service and for the way she’s built and grown her career. Although she is from a political family in Baltimore, the first half of her adult life was spent raising children in San Francisco. Marlene knows Rep. Sometimes, 4Chan Users Do The Right Thing : The Two-Way. 4Chan is a cesspool. That's not even editorializing. A few minutes on the notorious, free-for-all Internet message board that gave birth to Anonymous will — in the famous words of Gawker — "melt your brain.
" hide captionThis is the photo posted on 4Chan last night. Anonymous But every once in a while, they do the right thing — like today. As Hypervocal reports, last night a 4Chan user posted a picture of someone standing on two containers full of lettuce with the taunting caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King. " Within 15 minutes, the community turned on him and started analyzing the picture. The anons — as they are called — tracked down the coordinates to a Cleveland Burger King. Fox 8 in Cleveland was sent this response from Burger King: "We are aware of the photo that was allegedly posted by an employee at a BURGER KING® restaurant in Ohio and are taking the issue very seriously. So, yeah, 4Chan did good. Update at 3:01 p.m. Indeed. Smashburger Is Taking On In-N-Out. Our Money Is On Smashburger.
The Smashburger was invented by the guy behind Stuffed Crust Pizza and the McGriddle. When word came down that Denver-based hamburger chain Smashburger was expanding in Los Angeles with a reported 60 (!) Locations, I sort of felt for those party animals at In-N-Out headquarters. Sure, In-N-Out will always be crazy successful — but more for their "secret" menu and Oscar party catering than the actual burgers they sell. Because, the fact is, that burger they sell is typically average-to-yucky.
A little over a year ago a location opened near my apartment in Downtown Brooklyn, just steps from a popular Shake Shack branch. The Smashburger model blends both takeout and fast-casual concepts — while serving smart products like fries dusted with rosemary and “hyper-local” burgers (avocado on a torta roll in San Diego; chopped green olives topping patties in Kalamazoo, Michigan). With Smashburger, he aimed to redefine the hamburger chain paradigm. Brooklyn Brine Opens a Shop for Its Preserves. Coping With Summer’s Bounty of Vegetables. Whose Side Is the American Farm Bureau On? Produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network.
The American Farm Bureau, with its 6 million “member families” and carefully cultivated grassroots image, talks a good game. In the pitched battle over US farm policy—with agribusiness giants on one side, and small family farmers, organic and local food advocates and environmentalists on the other—the Farm Bureau positions itself as the voice of the farmer. About the Author Ian T. Shearn Ian T. “If you know agriculture in this country, it is dominated by family farms, and those are the people who come to our meetings, those are the people who set our policies,” claims Mark Maslyn, executive director of the American Farm Bureau Federation’s public policy department, a team of twenty-two registered federal lobbyists that spend more than $2 million annually on a variety of agriculture issues.
At that time, Christen had become the leader of local resistance to the CAFO, then owned by Premium Standard Farms. Greg Voakes: British Food Myths and the 'Summer of Sport' A summer of sport is being celebrated across the pond in the UK. Why? Because like Lord Alfred Douglas talking about a his forbidden love (and the people of the wizarding world talking about Ralph Fiennes) they're not permitted as a nation to name the thing they're really talking about. As such, every routine sporting event has been bundled neatly into the summer of sport package -- Wimbledon, the British Open, Euro 2012, the Tour de France and the England versus South Africa test match cricket -- to get around the main event's naming restrictions (it rhymes with 'O'Limericks', by the way).
UK residents have plenty of reasons to raise an eyebrow at the unofficial term, which has been variously used in newspaper headlines, subscription TV campaigns and the cold, dark places in which brands shut out of sponsorship congregate to create content. Myth #1: British food is bland and boring Myth #2: Fish and chips are a popular takeout food Myth #3: Etiquette matters Myth #4: Metric burgers. Hot Or Not? Potato Board Tries To Un-Dud The Spud : The Salt. Hide captionTiny spuds decked out with cheese fondue sauce and a sprinkling of broccoli shavings at a dinner sponsored by the U.S. Potato Board.
Benjamin Morris/NPR Tiny spuds decked out with cheese fondue sauce and a sprinkling of broccoli shavings at a dinner sponsored by the U.S. Potato Board. It may not be obvious to the average shopper or diner, but the potato is an embattled vegetable. Yes, the simple spud, so ubiquitous, so unassuming, may be in need of a makeover. That's at least the view of the U.S. "The potato has been in a rut," Meredith Myers, spokeswoman for the U.S. This week, the board gave the spud a star turn with a seven-course dinner in Washington, D.C., at an upscale restaurant in the tony Cleveland Park neighborhood. hide captionWaiters at Ardeo-Bardeo in Washington, D.C. serve smoked white potato mousse with egg and caviar.
Waiters at Ardeo-Bardeo in Washington, D.C. serve smoked white potato mousse with egg and caviar. But why all the fuss? Well, according to the U.S. This Is Your Chicken on Drugs: Count the Antibiotics in Your Nuggets - Lifestyle. Forget a secret blend of herbs and spices: Your factory-farmed chicken is packed with hidden pharmaceuticals, too. In a new study , researchers tested samples of feather meal— the poultry feathers that are ground up and added to pig, cattle, fish, and, yes, chicken feed. The scientists found traces of banned antibiotics, arsenic, and seven other household medications, from Tylenol to Prozac. Take a big bite, America—this is your chicken on drugs. Researchers chose to examine feather meal because—much like human fingernails—chicken feathers readily absorb the chemicals and drugs birds consume. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and Arizona State University, analyzed 12 feather meal samples from the U.S. and China.
Results indicate that the majority of chickens are fed a drug cocktail before they make their way to consumers’ dinner plates. What’s a long-outlawed drug still doing in eight out of 12 samples of feather meal? Mexicocina in the South Bronx - Restaurant Review. Bite-size foods are more rewarding, suggests study. Smaller pieces of food are more ‘rewarding’ and lead to a greater feeling of fullness than one large piece of food with equal energy values, say researchers.
The research – to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior (SSIB) – investigated how the size and number of food pieces impacted satiety and reward mechanisms, revealing that that both animals and humans find multiple pieces of food to be more filling and rewarding than a single-piece portion of food with equal calorific value. “Perhaps food in pieces appears bigger and is therefore more rewarding and satiating to both animals and humans,” said the researchers, led by Devina Wadhera of Arizona State University, USA. Wadhera noted that both humans and animals use number as a cue to judge quantities of food – with larger numbers usually associated with larger quantities. Study details Following this training, they were given 12 trials where arm choice and speed to the chosen arm were measured. Why I Talk to Americans about Food. Atera in TriBeCa.