Oh, beautiful banh mi, how you dazzle with your vinegary burn and your cracking heat! The soft sinking sigh I breathe as the cold and hot intermingle and as my teeth break through the crust to the overflowing goodness inside — how I dream of you when you’re away and delight in the exhilarating expectation of each savory crumb when I’m with you!
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Food, Inc. opens today in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and on July 10th here in Richmond (at Movieland).
It's a movie I think everyone should see, and as an added incentive, I'm giving away the companion book (featuring thirteen essays written by Eric
Schlosser, Robert Kenner (director), Marion Nestle, Anna Lappe,
Michael Pollan, Muhammad Yunus, Joel Salatin, and Gary Hirshberg), AS WELL AS a copy of Fast Food Nation
by Eric Schlosser. Just send an email to brandoneats AT comcast.net and all names will go in a hat, or maybe a bucket, but probably a mixing bowl and will definitely be drawn by a 10-year-old or possibly a 13-year-old. The lucky winner will be announced Monday, June 15th!
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One of my very favorite Richmond events of all is this Sunday, June 7th, from 12:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Join me for Broad Appétit! I'll be the one impatiently tapping my foot in line while trying to juggle three plates of food and eat from each all at once.
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Here's a link that should be bookmarked permanently on everyone's holiday browser: Cutting Through Holiday Jams With Etiquette as Your G.P.S. All of you poor, poor souls* hosting this year's Thanksgiving extravaganza should read it very carefully and perhaps "accidentally" send it to all of your guests.
Here's my favorite rule: Guests should always ask to bring a dish, but respect the host when he or she declines the offer. If you are assigned a dish you don’t want to make, too bad. Negotiating with someone who just invited you to dinner is not cool.
Although this one is a close second: If your brother’s ex-wife’s oldest son’s new girlfriend is making you feel edgy, or if someone is mouthing off about politics, it is acceptable to excuse yourself politely and take a little walk or see if you can help in the kitchen. Yelling, “I hate you!” and running from the table crying is not appropriate.
You can find more helpful tips here (although you'll just have to make up your own mind about a couple of inconsistencies between the two lists): CHOW'S 10 Party Preparation Tips.
I would also add that Xanax is always an appropriate hostess gift. That tip doesn't appear on either list.
*Hurray! Not me! Not me!
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My favorite Google search: what eats a baby chicken? Why my site is, of course, the perfect place to find an answer to that particular question!
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