7 posts tagged “nytimes”
Thanks, New York Times! This is from this week's "T: Style Magazine".
Just now I saw this headline in the New York Times: "Cheney Unhurt After Bombing in Afghanistan." Yes, sure, okay, in this case, Cheney was actually more or less on site for the bombing in question, but my immediate thought was "Boy, isn't that always the way?" I'd like to see more war reporting like this, pages full of:
Bush Not Harmed a Whit by Ramadi Bombardment
Rice Unscathed After Bombing at Iraqi Ministry
Saudi Attack Results in No Injuries for Alberto Gonzales
Bomb at Mosque Kills 36; Karl Rove in Pink of Health
Accurate and incisive!
So I made that nut-pesto pasta recipe tonight (I like that the Times now lets you get at permalinks through their own site, via that little "share" link -- thanks, Khoi Vinh! I bet you're responsible for that) and it really was delicious. And to be fair, I've never had anything quite like it before, but it is really, really far from "crazy".
Elsewhere in the NY Times food section, I find this:
A basic tomato sauce is mixed with a pesto of four kinds of raw nuts, which makes a creamless pink sauce with real body, enlivened by the kick of black and red peppers, a generous grating of pecorino and a few ribbons of fresh mint.
It’s a crazy combination of bar food — nuts and cheese — with noodles, and while it’s hard to figure out why it works, it’s easy to eat a bowlful as you think about it (though not exactly cheap: $12 as an appetizer, $20 as an entree).
Okay, no. The combination of pasta, nuts, and cheese is NOT CRAZY IN ANY WAY. Nor is it hard to figure out why it tastes good. Fuck you, Alex Witchel.
My award for the day's most obnoxious characterization of the motivations of one's own supposed constituency goes to Caren Wilcox, executive director of the Organic Trade Association, quoted in an article in today's NY Times food section (emphasis mine):
"All the ingredients being used in items with the organic seal are produced using the organic system," Ms. Wilcox said. "It doesn’t mean they don’t sometimes end up in products some people think other people shouldn’t eat."
Yes! That's absolutely the only reason that anyone might care about the laxity or strictness of regulations governing the use of the USDA organic seal. Those fucking hippies just want to stop you, Joe Citizen, from eating anything insufficiently pure and holy. Ever.
Of course, Ms. Wilcox's actual constituency is, I imagine, mostly composed of companies like Frito-Lay, so, whatever. Good work slipping the knife in, madam.
Headline: "Way, Way Back on the Family Tree, a Common Ancestor of Web Architects".
It's about spiders, of course, but it sure did take me a long minute to get there.
Dear New York Times:
This is not artsy; it is blurry.
xoxo,
red
