Comments for Herbert's Kitchen http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com simmer 'til done Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:25:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on So What? by The Satan of Deltaville http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/so-what/#comment-27 The Satan of Deltaville Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:25:25 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-27 The movement of the current US administration is bring everyone and everything under a global-world control so "local" farms, gardens, etc. are looked on as bad. As a matter of fact, there is a bill in the Congress sponsored by the Left to require ALL food growers (and brokers, middlemen, retailers) to document everything they grow and sell or give away so ALL food can be traced back to its source if there is a problem with the food. So a neighborhood garden will be required to document each food distributed in the neighborhood or face fines and/or jail time! If they have 20 families in the neighborhood garden, 20 forms for each fruit and vegetable will have to be completed before it can be distributed! The current administration professes to support local gardening/farms but is legislating them out of existence with paperwork and bureaucracy! Growing food locally is OK in educated societies with knowledge of fertilizers, pesticides and related, but in the third world, it is often dangerous to trust the local food. The third world farmer learns about a pesticide that kills the insects eating their crops so they buy the pesticide and spray double or triple the amount necessary because they want to insure their crop is completely safe. The result is food loaded with pesticides and it is also polluting the ground water along with more fertilizers! It was safer when they used human waste for fertilizer and burning fires on their land to scare away some of the insects! There is an agricultural biotech industry Rice Institute in the Philippines which has secured a supply of most the world's rice seeds/kernals which have ever existed. Their work creates new and better rice for the world's rice farmers because after awhile a new rice strain that was not liked by one or more insects becomes liked by them. The insects adapt to survive! The rice crops around the world would not be able to cover the needs of the world without this institute so there are good agricultural biotech industry operations and not all are bad. The movement of the current US administration is bring everyone and everything under a global-world control so “local” farms, gardens, etc. are looked on as bad. As a matter of fact, there is a bill in the Congress sponsored by the Left to require ALL food growers (and brokers, middlemen, retailers) to document everything they grow and sell or give away so ALL food can be traced back to its source if there is a problem with the food. So a neighborhood garden will be required to document each food distributed in the neighborhood or face fines and/or jail time! If they have 20 families in the neighborhood garden, 20 forms for each fruit and vegetable will have to be completed before it can be distributed! The current administration professes to support local gardening/farms but is legislating them out of existence with paperwork and bureaucracy!
Growing food locally is OK in educated societies with knowledge of fertilizers, pesticides and related, but in the third world, it is often dangerous to trust the local food. The third world farmer learns about a pesticide that kills the insects eating their crops so they buy the pesticide and spray double or triple the amount necessary because they want to insure their crop is completely safe. The result is food loaded with pesticides and it is also polluting the ground water along with more fertilizers! It was safer when they used human waste for fertilizer and burning fires on their land to scare away some of the insects!
There is an agricultural biotech industry Rice Institute in the Philippines which has secured a supply of most the world’s rice seeds/kernals which have ever existed. Their work creates new and better rice for the world’s rice farmers because after awhile a new rice strain that was not liked by one or more insects becomes liked by them. The insects adapt to survive! The rice crops around the world would not be able to cover the needs of the world without this institute so there are good agricultural biotech industry operations and not all are bad.

]]> Comment on Theophobia by Merav http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/02/17/theophobia/#comment-25 Merav Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:33:11 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=128#comment-25 I am always happy to talk about Judaism with anyone. If you'd like, I'm here. I am always happy to talk about Judaism with anyone. If you’d like, I’m here.

]]> Comment on From Animal to Edible by Herbert http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/from-animal-to-edible/#comment-22 Herbert Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:47:26 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-22 I'd rather buy a clean conscience though for 2$/lb, than a dirty one for .70$/lb on sale. I was just reading Michael Pollan talking about hunting, eating a meal with no debt. But it's not just the conscious that needs to be clear, it's the mind. One of the interesting things about the French abbaitors is that their most frequent visitors (besides inspectors) are school children on tours. What would happen if we did that in this country? Thank you for reading! I’d rather buy a clean conscience though for 2$/lb, than a dirty one for .70$/lb on sale. I was just reading Michael Pollan talking about hunting, eating a meal with no debt. But it’s not just the conscious that needs to be clear, it’s the mind. One of the interesting things about the French abbaitors is that their most frequent visitors (besides inspectors) are school children on tours. What would happen if we did that in this country?

Thank you for reading!

]]> Comment on From Animal to Edible by Megan http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/from-animal-to-edible/#comment-21 Megan Sun, 08 Feb 2009 21:28:18 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-21 It is true, though, that a very strict separation of "meat" and "animal" must exist (especially in large-scale operations). The animals ARE dirty: soil and excrement and shedding hair are all potential contaminants that they carry in with them. Think of the animal as a hollow tube of edible meat enveloped in contaminants: the hide, and the contents of the GI tract. Essentially, they are enveloped in shit, which must be carefully removed if the meat is to be uncontaminated. The separation of live animals/dead viscera and edible meat is a necessity. I am moved, though, by your notation of the symbolism. I am very interested in how, even among those of "higher consciousness", the separation of beast and meat is carefully maintained. I can go to the farmers' market and get cute little paper packages of locally-raised beef, while admiring the photos of frolicking calves. I can go to Whole Foods and buy cage-free eggs, while imagining how much happier these hens must be than those raised in battery cages. Are either of these "closer to the source" choices really bringing me nearer to the reality of calf-->beef or hen-->egg? Nowadays it is so easy to buy a clean conscience: for a 30% markup I can have my happy cow and (literally) eat it, too. I'm enjoying your blog. Thank you for sharing. It is true, though, that a very strict separation of “meat” and “animal” must exist (especially in large-scale operations). The animals ARE dirty: soil and excrement and shedding hair are all potential contaminants that they carry in with them.

Think of the animal as a hollow tube of edible meat enveloped in contaminants: the hide, and the contents of the GI tract. Essentially, they are enveloped in shit, which must be carefully removed if the meat is to be uncontaminated. The separation of live animals/dead viscera and edible meat is a necessity. I am moved, though, by your notation of the symbolism.

I am very interested in how, even among those of “higher consciousness”, the separation of beast and meat is carefully maintained. I can go to the farmers’ market and get cute little paper packages of locally-raised beef, while admiring the photos of frolicking calves. I can go to Whole Foods and buy cage-free eggs, while imagining how much happier these hens must be than those raised in battery cages. Are either of these “closer to the source” choices really bringing me nearer to the reality of calf–>beef or hen–>egg? Nowadays it is so easy to buy a clean conscience: for a 30% markup I can have my happy cow and (literally) eat it, too.

I’m enjoying your blog. Thank you for sharing.

]]> Comment on Mandate by Herbert http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/mandate/#comment-19 Herbert Sun, 08 Feb 2009 01:42:41 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-19 Thank you! It's nice to have an audience. Thank you! It’s nice to have an audience.

]]> Comment on From Animal to Edible by limesarah http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/from-animal-to-edible/#comment-18 limesarah Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:10:38 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=93#comment-18 That reminds me, you might want to take a look at "Thinking in Pictures", by Temple Grandin, if you haven't already. Here's a link to the first chapter online: http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html The later chapters go into more detail on animals/slaughter. That reminds me, you might want to take a look at “Thinking in Pictures”, by Temple Grandin, if you haven’t already. Here’s a link to the first chapter online: http://www.grandin.com/inc/visual.thinking.html The later chapters go into more detail on animals/slaughter.

]]> Comment on My Mother’s Kitchen, Part 1 by Steve http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/my-mothers-kitchen-1/#comment-17 Steve Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:47:44 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=75#comment-17 Kitchens are important to me. Growing up on a boat, the galley was my mother's domain, and I was not welcomed into it. Flash forward to fifteen years later, shortly after I started working full time+ as a lawyer, and I broke down crying because Bh had moved things around, I could not find a spatula, and it epitomized how alienated I felt from my own home. Kitchens are important to me. Growing up on a boat, the galley was my mother’s domain, and I was not welcomed into it. Flash forward to fifteen years later, shortly after I started working full time+ as a lawyer, and I broke down crying because Bh had moved things around, I could not find a spatula, and it epitomized how alienated I felt from my own home.

]]> Comment on Mandate by Steve http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/mandate/#comment-16 Steve Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:14:02 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=77#comment-16 I am intensely looking forward to your thoughts on these subjects. I am intensely looking forward to your thoughts on these subjects.

]]> Comment on Challah by Naomi http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/challah/#comment-15 Naomi Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:46:01 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-15 here's the recipe for the pudding: http://betterbatter.org/2008/11/yorkshire-pudding.html naomi here’s the recipe for the pudding: http://betterbatter.org/2008/11/yorkshire-pudding.html

naomi

]]> Comment on Challah by Herbert http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/challah/#comment-14 Herbert Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:04:35 +0000 http://herbertskitchen.wordpress.com/?p=57#comment-14 I think I can get it to work in the bread machine, with a bit futzing. It came out better than any other bread I've made. I think the eggs help a lot in the challah. I'm not allergic to them - I'm not actually celiac; I just have a gluten intolerance from chronic Lyme. I would love your pudding recipe! I did not see it on your site. And yes, I am a college student, or at least trying to. I go to Swarthmore, about 200 miles east of you. Actually, my snack bar just started offering gluten free bread; it's Food for Life's brown rice, which I am not particularly fond of given that it's so dense, and I don't necessarily trust them to be good about cross-contamination, but it was happy to see that they're starting to make gestures in that direction. Love, herbert I think I can get it to work in the bread machine, with a bit futzing. It came out better than any other bread I’ve made. I think the eggs help a lot in the challah. I’m not allergic to them – I’m not actually celiac; I just have a gluten intolerance from chronic Lyme.

I would love your pudding recipe! I did not see it on your site.

And yes, I am a college student, or at least trying to. I go to Swarthmore, about 200 miles east of you. Actually, my snack bar just started offering gluten free bread; it’s Food for Life’s brown rice, which I am not particularly fond of given that it’s so dense, and I don’t necessarily trust them to be good about cross-contamination, but it was happy to see that they’re starting to make gestures in that direction.

Love,
herbert

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