cjchaps wrote:During the past few weeks the section has really been awful. I didn't read today's yet - I am saving that for the train ride home.

I find myself enjoying the restaurant reviews in Thursday's paper more than the Wed food section.

Totally agree. Thursday seems to be where the energy is...

btw: today's Good Eating is a yawn: "you want them to try fun stuff(performances, exhibits, belly dancing lessons) so they don't realize they're buying wine."

um...wtf?

The very idea that the culinary section of The Tribune is kowtowing to a perceived populace who think that wine is, "somehow not for Americans."
is flabbergasting...

anyway... par for the recent course...waste paper of a food section this week...

...even the Market Basket column this week revealing trends from recent industry shows is moribund: the gawdawful Food Network profiled that frozen fruit thing months ago...

I'm so not the intended target of GE since the revamp.

...and AM seriously considering canceling my subscription(esp. since they're moving Books to Saturday which isn't in my service) AND going back to buying the Sunday at the the grocery store *occasionally*...

I linger over the weather page more than I do the Good Eating section. I thought today's article about Wine Bars was especially insipid for mostly the reasons stated by Christopher Gordon. I do enjoy the regular feature where they rate supermarket products but that is rarely featured anymore.

The most amazing omission from Daley's USA Today-level feature is that he totally failed to discuss one of the most (if not the most important reasons for frequenting a small wine shop - you experience the proprietor's own, particular passion for wine and share his or her discoveries...this is certainly why I for one enjoy going to such shops...not for any "show-biz" elements like belly dancing or "wine-for-people-who-don't-like-wine" courses.

Well, perhaps I'm not the most sophisticated of critics either, but I like the days that the Tribune comes with the Good Eating and At Play sections, and Daley's and Vettel's columns. I wish the article-to-ad ratio was higher in the Good Eating section, but it's better than nothing (and if you've ever lived outside a Major Metropolitan Area, you know what getting nothing about shopping/cooking/eating/dining in your local paper is about).

As long as we're being critical, why aren't people complaining more loudly about theTribune's Books section? Not only skimpy, but actually reprinting reviews that have appeared weeks before in other publications. But I digress.

Katie wrote:Well, perhaps I'm not the most sophisticated of critics either, but I like the days that the Tribune comes with the Good Eating and At Play sections, and Daley's and Vettel's columns. I wish the article-to-ad ratio was higher in the Good Eating section, but it's better than nothing (and if you've ever lived outside a Major Metropolitan Area, you know what getting nothing about shopping/cooking/eating/dining in your local paper is about).

As long as we're being critical, why aren't people complaining more loudly about theTribune's Books section? Not only skimpy, but actually reprinting reviews that have appeared weeks before in other publications. But I digress.

As I mention above they're moving and revamping Books...it'll appear on Saturdays...which is one day my subscription doesn't cover and another reason to cancel. The Trib is so going downhill in it's cultural coverage...even Thursday's At Play today is hardly worth a look(Parlour=1 star...at least it's not *another* 3 star, I suppose). And yet another column discussing the minutiae of organic vs. seasonal...yawn.

As long as we're being critical, why aren't people complaining more loudly about theTribune's Books section? Not only skimpy, but actually reprinting reviews that have appeared weeks before in other publications. But I digress.

Continued digression: KidNews is dead. Long live Kidnews.

Back to the condiments / salting discussion: I salt my (cheap american) beer. Can't remember where I picked up the habit.

I grew up on Campbell's Cream of Mushroom + Starkist Tuna + elbow macaroni casserole... in an Asian household...

As I mention above they're moving and revamping Books...it'll appear on Saturdays...which is one day my subscription doesn't cover and another reason to cancel.

Similar gripe here. Another "downsizing" for cultural matters as far as I'm concerned, since I'm sure Saturday's Trib gets a much smaller readership than Sunday.

The Trib is sure to have a booth at Printer's Row the weekend of June 10. Sounds like an ironically appropriate place to register a complaint. I intend to be quite vocal. Hope others on the same page will chime in

Compelling journalism again this week in the Good Eating section. This week's lead story was about crisp foods.

What's up for next week? A feature on soft foods with interviews with nursing home cooks?

aschie30 wrote:Compelling journalism again this week in the Good Eating section. This week's lead story was about crisp foods.

What's up for next week? A feature on soft foods with interviews with nursing home cooks?

Yet another issue where I idly page through it and, think, "yep, nothing here for me." And, with a long, drawn-out sigh heave it back atop the rest of The Tribune.

Oh man, I found my perfect tag line...buried in the first page of the "crisp" article. No, I didn't read it...but this just lept out...

"Bacon has a bazillion calories," she said.

Bah! I loved this week's article on crisp foods, if only because it left me shaking my head and wondering what the hell they're smoking over there.

Ok, so let me get this straight--we're hard-wired to love crispy foods because they pack more calories in and we sense this, but celery is listed as one of the "crispy foods" and then in the very next paragraph is skewered b/c we wouldn't get enough calories from it?

And really, is it crunchy foods like celery and carrots that tell our subconscious they're packed full of calories and nutrients, or is it the rich unctuousness of foods like foie gras or cheese? Ridiculous. (I think I spent way too much time irritatedly thinking about that article when I read it this morning...)

"bacon has a bazillion calories" she said

I saw this too and thought "pshaw, even ordinary pan-fried bacon only has about 42 calories per slice". And good stuff often has even less...

Bacon is GOOD for you! I refuse to hear otherwise! LA LA LA, can't hear you!!

As I've complained enough about Good Eating in the past, I thought I'd present an article that I actually thought worthwhile in today's section about how the Oak Park Farmer's Market doughnuts saved a church.