November 1, 2007
Thursday YouTubein’ — Cake and pumpkins
Saw this at Blue Gal’s pad and had to pass it along — Iron Chef meets Cake (the band):
February 25, 2007
Weekend “apropos of nothing” post
It’s Easter candy season! Cadbury creme eggs and mini eggs… those “chicks and rabbits” that are essentially circus peanuts in different shapes and colors… jelly beans galore… those vaguely marshmallowy (basically just slightly creamy compressed sugar) eggs with brightly colored candy shells that I wanted to buy at the grocery store last night but talked myself out of because I imagine they’d put me into diabetic shock in spite of the fact that I’m not diabetic… and, of course, Peeps (though naturally I would rather play with Peeps than eat them). I love it. Why, I don’t know exactly. Partly nostalgia, perhaps, but also, as much as I love truly good food, high-quality dark chocolate, shopping at Wild Oats or Trader Joe’s, and so on… I enjoy this junk. And before long I’ll be bouncing off the walls, singing sugar’s praises. Good times!
Speaking of nostalgia, though, I have to admit that I don’t always take kindly to innovations or new products in the realm of Easter candy. Green Peeps? Pastel candy corn? Nonsense! And then I thought of the Mad Hatter “fixing” the White Rabbit’s watch in the Disney version of Alice in Wonderland: he slathers it with butter, tea, and jam, and then is offered mustard. He accepts it, then does a double take. “Mustard?!” he exclaims. “Don’t let’s be silly…” Don’t let’s be silly, indeed…
February 12, 2007
Missing the point
From Reuters via Yahoo: Restaurant offers skinny models free food
Bumpkin restaurant in trendy Notting Hill is offering models with a Body Mass Index (BMI) of less than 18 the opportunity to gorge on fish pies, lamb burgers, king prawns and scallops.”If I could recommend a dish to a size zero model, it would be a charter pie containing leeks, chicken and bacon; it’s enough to keep you warm and energised all day,” Bumpkin general manager Dariush Nejad said in a statement on Monday.
The issue of size zero or “skinny models” has dogged fashion shows around the world after two anorexic Latin American models died last year and has been under the international spotlight during the spring fashion season in New York, Milan, Paris and London, which began on Sunday.
Madrid last year banned models with a BMI below 18 from taking part in fashion shows. BMI is a measure expressed as a ratio of weight to height. A BMI limit of 18 means a 5-foot-8 inch model must weigh at least 120 pounds (54 kg).
Models with a BMI of less than 18 who visit Bumpkin for lunch or dinner will be invited to select any food off the menu, simply by showing their modeling card which states if they are size zero, the restaurant said.
I realize, of course, that this is probably just a publicity stunt on the part of the restaurant. Still, though, it strikes me as ridiculous for three reasons: a) if the restaurant’s claim that “recent visitors included fashion designer Stella McCartney, filmmaker Guy Ritchie, popstar Simon le Bon and his wife Yasmin” is true, then I don’t really see why they need this kind of publicity; b) models with BMIs lower than 18 are not that thin because they can’t afford food; and c) might whatever money the restaurant might expend on this endeavor be better spent on funding a clinic for eating disorders or feeding London’s homeless?
February 9, 2007
Friday foodblogging
Via Pharyngula: Foods you might want to steer clear of. (For example, three words: musk Life Savers. Eeugh.)
Via Shakes Sis: Cheddarvision. Shakes: “Watching cheese age: More or less exciting than watching paint dry?”
Happy weekend, everyone!
I am the Lizard Queen! 