During the current quarantines caused by the exponential threat of COVID-19, I’m seeing a number of people on social media saying they’re cleaning their refrigerators and pantries for the first time in quite some time. I’ve also seen a few people say “if it’s past its marked date, throw it away.” This particular concept is […]
“What do you mean … I have to put dinner away when I do dishes? That’s can’t be an ‘implied’ rule, I don’t see that written down anywhere.” And the pot containing cooked No. 3 spaghetti noodles mixed with sauce sat on the clean stove. The rest of the dishes were washed and air-drying while […]
Adam at age 15 with some camp cooking equipment from the 1950s. People in the U.S. today would likely be extremely squeamish about eating food prepared with these. When it comes to food, I don’t really like “top-ten” or “top-one-hundred” or any other kind of similar lists. Those lists are very dependant on the taste […]
A package of supposedly “raw” hot dogs. This morning I ate a Ball Park Frank, uncooked, directly out of the package I bought yesterday and licked the juices off my fingers. Obviously, I’m a dead man. Last summer when I ran the beachhouse, serving more hot dogs than I could remember in three months time, […]
One thing I’d never had in my whole life … well, at least since it’s become popular … is deep-fried whole turkey. No, not the whole turkey … I can’t eat that much … well, maybe … anyway … I digress. Yesterday I was finally able to enjoy some fresh, hand-dipped, deep-fried turkey! And it was […]
“Uncle Dave, are we there yet?” In Part 1 of this multi-part series (maybe we’re finally at the end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other […]
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may really never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. In Part 2, I looked at a few of the differences between the U.S. and just a couple other countries with respect to food safety. In this part, […]
In Part 1 of this multi-part series (that may never end), I laid out some of what I felt is wrong with food safety issues in this country. But what about other countries? Here’s Chef Anthony Bourdain in a Paris restaurant, from No Reservations on the Travel channel: It’s a common traveler’s dilemma. You hear about […]
Yesterday, the Toledo Blade published an editorial titled “Food for Thought“. One sentence of this editorial rather accurately describes the current administration’s inadequacy in this area: It was a rich irony, and perfectly indicative of the government’s failure to adequately confront this issue, that on the same day that President Bush announced a new panel on […]
Back in this post about pots and pans, reader Mike asked a question about the safety of canned goods after they’d been in the pantry a good long time. I replied with a link to this site from home-canning equipment manufacturers Ball and Kerr, which states, “Food that has been properly canned using an up-to-date […]