Wait, is “Clean Plate Club” a universal thing parents do with kids?!?
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Wow. TIL.
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A keeper recipe indeed.
I contains some very good information and tips.
Thank you.
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From a few days ago.
Goodby old friend. You have always been there for me.
Dark stormy nights at the Mendocino cabin. Bright warm days grilling in San Francisco. These last few days your cork disintegrated and fell inside and I had to strain out the pieces.This left you as an empty vessel of your former self.
02/19/1996 to 02/27/2022. Your bottle will live forever stripped of its labels and refilled with only the best!
RiP my 
dear Jose. 
#tequila
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You mean, if you couldn’t taste it?
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No, but it was just hard to categorize. If it was colder I’d call it a dessert.
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Brave.
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BtW, the dog looks like it is suspicious of the whole process.
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Cookie the Dog is rightfully suspicious
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Photography exhibit compares diets from around the world.
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That reminds me of a coffee table book we have:
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And @anon67050589 - those are both SO cool! Thanks!
I can’t find it now, and not food related, but saw a similar book ages ago where people laid out everything they owned in front of their homes and that became a photo book.
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Good memory!
Same main author, came out first, and yes, we have that one too!
ETA: funny to think that if we participated in that project now, “Material World” would be one of the possessions on display!
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Yes! I cannot remember the title.
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Whoa! That’s it! Material World for the win.
You get a chicken dinner!
Wings cooked to fast the other night.
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Thank you, but I’ll let you share the chicken around to the others here (I’m a vegetarian). Which actually brings me to the post I was about to write, before seeing yours…
One of the things I found most striking about the two books is that “Material World” definitely shows the huge differences that poverty and lack of access to modern conveniences can cause. There was no doubt in my mind that I personally preferred the homes of the families living as what we would consider in the States to be middle class. Not that I wouldn’t have been honored to be invited to any of the homes, but realistically I would have been more comfortable with modern amenities (not necessarily luxury, just conveniences like running water and safe, available electricity).
But with “What I Eat”, I was entirely repulsed by the represented diet in most of the wealthier, more privileged homes, but most particularly the US homes, which relied much more on convenience and snack foods. I was drawn to those homes where most of the food was in a natural state, needing to be prepared (produce, etc.). Barring those homes so poor that the nutritional balance didn’t seem sufficient to me, I felt I would rather eat with the families that anchored their meals around beans/pulses and rice/grain with copious amounts of veggies and fruits rather than frozen dinners, boxed mac & cheese, cases of soda, and virtually no fresh produce whatsoever in most of the US homes. The photographed images weren’t as bright because there’s no packaging to catch the consumer’s eye, but it looked like FOOD.
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There’s an old saying in the US that the kitchen sink drain is the healthiest member of the family because so many people dump the most nutritious foods down there: vegetable peels, water from boiling veggies, etc. Back when I was pretty poor my roommate and I joked that our kitchen sink would have an ulcer bc all we ever dumped down it was coffee grounds (we didn’t have compost). We lived on oatmeal, frozen or fresh veggies depending on season, and rice cooked with the veggie water, basically. And coffee.
Now that I have more money I definitely have a less “pure” diet, but still pretty much like you describe. Plus copious amounts of cocktails, especially this past couple years!
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