The Maggots in Your Mushrooms

I am an ex-New Yorker. That being said, I still follow the New York Times and Magazine restaurant section/blogs when I have some spare time at work. I found this article today that is rather interesting about what is allowed at food establishments in regards to acceptable levels for contaminants in food. In high school, I worked at several restaurants as either a server and remember times where the kitchen staff would ooh or ahh over things they found in the walk-in's or where they kept their food for the day. I just thought this was an interesting article.

Read at caution:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/opinion/13levy.html?_r=2&ref=opinion

I don't think I have seen a better piece for not eating in a long time. In fact, it is probably a perfect weight loss device. You just read the article whenever you are hungry. Hmmm, I bet if I did that for the next 35 days I would lose 35 lbs.

Thanks for sharing. And to think, I was upset that I did not get to the club today.

And from a professor of creative writing, no less.

It's all protein

... make great fishing bait... (Hey, when life hands you lemons...)

shoot, I was hoping someone discovered a better method for getting them out of morels. back to the baking soda, I guess.

I thought the key was a soak in saltwater. Hmmm.

Yea, it's kind of hard to gross out a group of people when some of them have eaten bugs deliberately. Funny how the whole tequila worm or lollipop is a dare, but the idea that there might be 1/1000th of an autoclaved and now sanitary rat hair in your can of peas sends people screaming for the hills.

Mhays wrote:I thought the key was a soak in saltwater. Hmmm.

Yea, it's kind of hard to gross out a group of people when some of them Funny how the whole tequila worm or lollipop is a dare, but the idea that there might be 1/1000th of an autoclaved and now sanitary rat hair in your can of peas sends people screaming for the hills.

The cost of making food "perfectly clean" would make it prohibitively expensive. And I am not sure that eliminating all bacteria, dirt and such is necessarily the best thing. I think that our bodies need to develop some resistance to bad bacteria and that is usually accomplished by whipping them.

I still remember a CBC agriculture show where a professor bakes a bundt cake made of mealy worms and served it to the students who were quite complimentary ... until they found out the main ingresients.

Mhays wrote:I thought the key was a soak in saltwater. Hmmm.

yeah, maybe. it's been along time since I've been able to afford them, and I've never had any luck finding one. Puffballs and sulfur shelfs, no sweat. still hunting the elusive hen of the woods in these parts too