Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Wedenesday Da Papers--now with more 'e's!
Blah blah blah, wednesday newspaper food section review. I read the headline and lead graph, you get expert analysis.
NYT: Hey! continuing the gluttons club theme, an article on farmers markets! In related news, women are more increasingly becoming farmers, especially in the northeast. For the haute wine snob, a tasting of the 2001 bourdeaux vintage will help you plan your purchases if you haven't already arranged to buy futures. Mr Minimal tackles the prickly artichoke; ouch. Importantly, grass-fed beef cattle are becoming more and more popular (seriously, this is important--have you ever had grassy beef? delicious.) Speaking of cows, Nigella is back "raiding" cambodia for cultural treasures. Good to see the English haven't lost their touch.
SF Chronicle: Out with Boston, in with the Boston of the West, San Francisco. I'm gonna make the SF Chronicle the official second paper of Gluttons club. Its a better section and it doesn't require registration to access it.
Today their feature is on eating local goods for various reasons. I likey. It then sorta skips to the columns and so we'll follow. The wine section features fizzy reds from down under. The wine section cheese article, which I think is very clever, uses a very unfortunate pun to introduce the featured cheese from greece which goes by an unpronouncable name. Further on down, the food returns with an article about whole grain pasta; a topic in a different section last week I think. Finally, there's an interview with Chowhound founder. In the interest of not drawing readers away from this site, don't go to that site. Bad idea. You'll get shingles if you do.
WaPo: Today's guest paper is the venerable Washington Times. Recently they've been congratulating themselves over new developments in a story they broke more than 30 years ago. Woo, yay.
The Food & Dining is at first glance pretty thorough. There are a lot of articles and columns representing all the usual topics and categories. Another winner in the guest spot.
The top article is about baking bread. Not terribly exciting but its good to see they are covering the basics. Next is a restaurant review which is nice--if you live in DC. They've got a feature article about Moby, the bald and sensitive techno pop star and his vegetarian eating habits. How nice for him, but maybe eminem wouldn't pick on him if he ate meat. Let's move on and cover the rest in one sentence: The wine column covers spain, some lady collects salt, there's a book about blender cuisine (wait? did I just write "blender cuisine?"), we're running out of milk, there's a tea room, mangoes are versatile, a burger can be made in less than half an hour and Miss Saigon is pretty.
NYT: Hey! continuing the gluttons club theme, an article on farmers markets! In related news, women are more increasingly becoming farmers, especially in the northeast. For the haute wine snob, a tasting of the 2001 bourdeaux vintage will help you plan your purchases if you haven't already arranged to buy futures. Mr Minimal tackles the prickly artichoke; ouch. Importantly, grass-fed beef cattle are becoming more and more popular (seriously, this is important--have you ever had grassy beef? delicious.) Speaking of cows, Nigella is back "raiding" cambodia for cultural treasures. Good to see the English haven't lost their touch.
SF Chronicle: Out with Boston, in with the Boston of the West, San Francisco. I'm gonna make the SF Chronicle the official second paper of Gluttons club. Its a better section and it doesn't require registration to access it.
Today their feature is on eating local goods for various reasons. I likey. It then sorta skips to the columns and so we'll follow. The wine section features fizzy reds from down under. The wine section cheese article, which I think is very clever, uses a very unfortunate pun to introduce the featured cheese from greece which goes by an unpronouncable name. Further on down, the food returns with an article about whole grain pasta; a topic in a different section last week I think. Finally, there's an interview with Chowhound founder. In the interest of not drawing readers away from this site, don't go to that site. Bad idea. You'll get shingles if you do.
WaPo: Today's guest paper is the venerable Washington Times. Recently they've been congratulating themselves over new developments in a story they broke more than 30 years ago. Woo, yay.
The Food & Dining is at first glance pretty thorough. There are a lot of articles and columns representing all the usual topics and categories. Another winner in the guest spot.
The top article is about baking bread. Not terribly exciting but its good to see they are covering the basics. Next is a restaurant review which is nice--if you live in DC. They've got a feature article about Moby, the bald and sensitive techno pop star and his vegetarian eating habits. How nice for him, but maybe eminem wouldn't pick on him if he ate meat. Let's move on and cover the rest in one sentence: The wine column covers spain, some lady collects salt, there's a book about blender cuisine (wait? did I just write "blender cuisine?"), we're running out of milk, there's a tea room, mangoes are versatile, a burger can be made in less than half an hour and Miss Saigon is pretty.
# posted by Yossie @ 4:12 PM 
