Food Is The New Sex

George Will explains that food is the new sex.  Just in time for lunch, too.

[END OF LUNCH BREAK]

Comments

[clarice]

Actually I think it was Thorstein Veblen who first noted that society glamorized whatever figure shape it was hard to achieve. In societies with abundant food, skeletal ladies are models. In famine societies fat ladies are the ideal.

[Neo]

If "food is the new sex" then aren't government efforts to combat obesity the new equivalent of "government in the bedroom" ?

[bad]

So we've actually really been exchanging sex tips and techniques but calling it "recipe sharing."

Does that mean Soylent is doing a porno book...with pictures?

[Pofarmer]

Noooner!!!!!

[bad]

Afternoon delight is lovely as well. Especially with a cold glass of milk.

[clarice]

**Thorsten**

I'm now experimenting with recipes from Artisan Bread on Five Minutes a Day. The idea and recipes are good, but I find the bread comes out more to my satisfaction if I continue to bake it in a cast iron pot as I did the recipe from Sullivan St Bakery.

I just took a wonderful looking and smelling boule out of the oven and mixed up a batch of what they say is authentic deli rye.

If George Will wants to make something of it, so be it.

[MayBee]

So George Will had a sex party for Barack Obama.

[bad]

ha ha Maybee

Clarice, you are turning me on.

[Exraneus]

Ahhhhhhhh...

[burp]

[bad]

lol, extraneous

[clarice]

Got that old Matthews thigh tingle, huh,bad?

[Porchlight]

Could the "____________ is the new _________" formulation please end, and soon?

[Jack is Back!]

'Smores as an aphrodisiac and its in aisle 4!

Seriously, when I lived in DC, if you wanted to meet hot-political-chicks who liked both food and sex (usually in that order) then you needed to be at Sutton Place Gourmet on Saturday mornings. Still the same, Tom?

[clarice]

Sutton Place is now Balduccis. The Georgetown Safeway is still (I'm told) a hot spot. And then there's Dean & De Lucca.

[bgates]

Lazy writing is the new hallmark of sophistication, Porchlight.

[bad]

Got that old Matthews thigh tingle, huh,bad?

It's much less disgusting given the worthiness of the object of my lust compared to the worthiness of the object of his lust.

(boule and deli rye vs a pile of sh*t.)

[Ann]

OOH la la....RUSH just called Matt Lauer an Obama Butt Boy!

[Danube of Thought]

When I lived in the Hollywood hills I did all my grocery shopping at the Chalet Gourmet on Sunset Boulevard at Fairfax. Paid about double what I'd have paid at Von's, but good God, the ladies!

[DebinNC]

OOH la la....RUSH just called Matt Lauer an Obama Butt Boy!

Video of Lauer defending Gibbs and challenging Santelli. Shameful.

[PeterUK]

"OOH la la....RUSH just called Matt Lauer an Obama Butt Boy!"

No,he was talking about food,he called him an "Obama Butty Boy".

Butty = Scouse(Liverpublian) for sandwich.

[Ann]

I hear a song, PUK.

The Boogie Woogie Butty Boys of Company ABC!

[Ann]

OOPs, that would be Company NBC. (Not that it matters much)

[Barry Dauphin]

Sometimes a banana is just a banana.

[Barry Dauphin]

Actually I believe it was George Costanza who tried to combine food with sex first. Maybe he was simply a transitional figure in this relationship.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Speaking of the munchies, Iowahawk has shown us what the rewarding effects of Soylent's proposal to provide free drugs to all lefties would be.

[glenda]

Oh, Clarice, there is a place for me!!..
Somalia!

[Soylent Red]

I heard "Soylent" and "porno" and came running...

Thought there was a job opening or something.

[ben]

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
- Anthelme Brillat Savarin

[ben]

Here is some good news...despite the brain washing by the Messiah and the MSM, according to Rasmussen 59% of Americans still think "government IS the problem". Which means 41%, alas, have drunk too often to the Kool-aid well.

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/59_still_believe_government_is_the_problem

[Jack is Back!]

Clarice,

Oh yeah! G'town Safeway - how could I forget - especially by the ice cream freezer! Eastern Market was also a nice place to meet fellow foodies but most of them were organic vegans.

[bgates]

I heard "Soylent" and "porno" and came running...

I hate it when that happens. Gets my shoes all dirty.

[bad]

bgates, you are incorrigble!!!!

ROFLMAO

[bad]

I blame Soylent and bgates for the visuals circulating in my brain.

[PeterUK]

"The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star."
- Anthelme Brillat Savarin

Going to bugger up a lot of songs.
"Dishdust"
"If You Wish Upon a Dish"
"Dishes Fell on Alabama".

[MayBee]

Geithner's crazy interview described by NPR.

[Danube of Thought]

Flaming Dish
Black Dish
I Wanna Be A Dish
Dish Bright
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Dish
Jesus Christ, Superdish

[Captain Hate]

Video of Lauer defending Gibbs and challenging Santelli. Shameful.

LOL @ Matt Hussein Lauer.

[PeterUK]

DoT,
The last two are particularly impressive.

[clarice]

The boule is delish.. I'll bake the rye later--I'm, experimenting as I said with combining several different techniques..In the meantime, I am covered with flour and the kitchen keeps filling up with new flours, additives (olive mix, seed coverings,herb additions-- witcheries like ascorbic acid and wheat gluten for better rises)..Let no man call me obsessive in the pursuit of perfect bread!!

[Rocco]

I eat alone quite often.

[Pofarmer]

Nuts.

I found something that I agree with Obama on. He wants to cut farm subsidy payments to farms Grossing over 500K. Well, it's a start.

[BobS]

Maybee's

So George Will had a sex party for Barack Obama

....talk about a bad visual

[bad]

italics be gone!!

[bad]

Italics are gone now for those who won't know until the page turns.

[clarice]

Rocco, learn how to bake bread and you'll have girls beating down your doors--think brioche with chocolate ganache filling.
In fact, you'll need to lock the kitchen door.

[BobS]

bad....did i do that?

[Rocco]

Sounds delicious clarice! I do yearn for the aroma of home made bread. My grandmother made it often, growing up.

[Rocco]

I was just kidding about eating alone...bad joke! The reality is my wife, the warden, has me on a strict diet.

[bad]

Yeah Bob, but only in the nicest way...

[bad]

Dallas Fed:

Please sit tight while I walk you through the math of Medicare. As you may know, the program comes in three parts: Medicare Part A, which covers hospital stays; Medicare B, which covers doctor visits; and Medicare D, the drug benefit that went into effect just 29 months ago. The infinite-horizon present discounted value of the unfunded liability for Medicare A is $34.4 trillion. The unfunded liability of Medicare B is an additional $34 trillion. The shortfall for Medicare D adds another $17.2 trillion. The total? If you wanted to cover the unfunded liability of all three programs today, you would be stuck with an $85.6 trillion bill. That is more than six times as large as the bill for Social Security. It is more than six times the annual output of the entire U.S. economy.

Why is the Medicare figure so large? There is a mix of reasons, really. In part, it is due to the same birthrate and life-expectancy issues that affect Social Security. In part, it is due to ever-costlier advances in medical technology and the willingness of Medicare to pay for them. And in part, it is due to expanded benefits—the new drug benefit program’s unfunded liability is by itself one-third greater than all of Social Security’s.

Add together the unfunded liabilities from Medicare and Social Security, and it comes to $99.2 trillion over the infinite horizon. Traditional Medicare composes about 69 percent, the new drug benefit roughly 17 percent and Social Security the remaining 14 percent.

Well, that was cheery...

[Matt]

sex will always be the new sex.....simply no substitution. Unless we enter a famine the potential for food porn and a food sex industry is limited.

[PeterUK]

I made some bread once - it was like breeze block,but not as tasty.

[Matt]

so now Congress wants to give DC some congressional seats....is this a parody of every single wish list item of the democrats, or are these clowns serious?

Sooner or later people will ahve to wake up to the sheer graft and corruption of these dirtbags....the hubris....

[clarice]

In the words of that nice Scarlett O' Hara, I'll think about that tomorrow. Right now, I'm mastering breadmakig.

[Extraneus]

Another success story from the War on Drugs.

[Danube of Thought]

I hope you're right, Matt, but I have hunch that we've become a nation whose majority believes in free-loading, and doesn't care about corruption on the part of those who are handing out the goodies.

Just got my new National Review in hard copy, and the cover story is "Girly-Man Ruins State: The Arnold Schwarzenneger Story." Gonna shake up a Martini and devour it.

[Ignatz Ratzkywatzky]

Well, that was cheery...

Never fear, bad. Obama has pledged to save trillions through eliminating waste and inefficiency in the health care system. It is unclear to me why no one else ever thought of that before, except of course for every other president in the last 75 freakin' years who has pledged to do the same.
But he IS change we can believe in so he must have something else in mind. Perhaps by waste and inefficiency he has in mind eliminating spending precious health care dollars on wasteful inefficiencies like you and my wife and other incoveniently sick people.

[Matt]

DoT;

I'll second that motion. Apparently the republicans were to an extent in on it as well. They just had to decide which of them were either termed out or at the least risk to decide who would cast the deciding votes. Political kabuki at its worst.

The grown ups have left the house and the kids are in the kitchen with the gas on, playing with matches.

[BobS]

clarice...i've been meaning to tell you that i'm really pleased that AT is providing more blog-style posts on the right side of the page.

[clarice]

AT has added more articles daily, too. It's a lot of work for the editor.

[Rocco]

OT
narciso was all over Charles Freeman two days ago.

[centralcal]

OH, Clarice, I think I am gonna have to learn to bake! The smell, the aroma, the flavor, and the texture of a really good bread is something quite divine. Of, course, I like to defile it with a bit of butter slowly spread upon it aromatic surface.

Well . . . maybe I will try this weekend. But, I need a recipe that requires a lot of kneading (beating) to take out all of my angst upon. That recipe I will throw away and then try one of your easy, peasy ones to really savor and eat.

The beaten and tossed away bread will be my metaphor for the Dictator that has taken over our lives in 20 something days.

[clarice]

Resist,CC..People have forgotten what it was like before the Reagan reforms. It's time for a new generation to learn the lesson.

[bad]

CC, I'll defile just about anything with butter.

[BobS]

I just pray that a Reagan or a Gingrich revolution will take hold soon. I am optimistic though as - forgive my WWII movie reliance on lines - it often seems as if Obama and his DEMs are retreating faster than we can advance.

I hope a few stars can emerge at GOPAC. The congressman from Wisconsin seem impressive, but someone has got tto get that self-poromoting bastard Huckabee from stabbing his perceived prez candidates in the back.He shouldn't be allowed to use Reagan's name if he's going to break one of his rules in publically trashing other republicans.

[BobS]

me, too bad....i love those retro commercials with an entire stick of butter in a baked potatoe

[BobS]

and isn't it funny that the experts now had decided that butter is not as harmful as margarine....go figure....i'm looking forward to my bacon and eggs breakfast again fulltime and am praying someone will say i never should have stopped in the first place.

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[BobS]

has anyone seem abc news? does jake tapper make it whatchable in any way?

[centralcal]

okay, BobS, I kinda bit at your bait and went strolling over to ABC. But, I didn't watch or read Jake, instead, I watched Laura Bush with Jonathan Karl.

Aahhh, how calming and reassuring that was. If only . . . .

[Frau Jedöns]

I, too, bake bread and grind my own wheat and rye flour on a stone grinder (circa 1975) which makes a ton of noise. The machine also has a hand crank in case the CA Dems pull the plug on electricity. I use the La Brea Bakery book for sourdough and have to feed and "exercise" the rye starter regularly which makes extended trips difficult. My rye breads are heavy with a heft to cause pain if dropped on a foot. I also do the no knead version but prefer rye mixtures. The King Arthur people printed a recipe for a cherry/nut bread (no knead) with white/whole wheat and rye that is really tasty. Some day I'd like to attempt Schwarzbrot. I'm not a great baker but just don't find good rye bread in most groceries. Having lived in Germany can spoil a person - but only when it comes to bread. Okay, and beer.

[daddy]

As I type this there's a cute ad picture of Rachel Ray up in the corner of my JOM website. So is George Will telling me the reason I want to bend her over and crack her open like a shotgun is because of her recipe's? Man, I sure hope TM doesn't start posting any Julia Childs commercials.

[SukieTawdry]

sex will always be the new sex.....simply no substitution. Unless we enter a famine the potential for food porn and a food sex industry is limited.

No, no substitute, but it can be a complement...café au lait and beignets in the wee hours of a sultry Louisiana night...oysters on the half shell at a fog-shrouded Scoma's...fried chicken and candied yams at Mrs. Wilkes any time you can get there...bagels, lox and all the trimmings, Sunday morning room service at the Plaza...corned beef piled a mile high at Katz's on a lazy Saturday afternoon...mmmm.

[Stephanie]

Eye bleach... for the Childs image... please. And a dog whistle. I can't get her voice out of my head now either.... "Knead me, Now."

[Ann]

I can't wait til Soylent and DoT reads SukieTawdry in the morning...!!!

That was pure food porn Sukie. Well done and Bravo!!!

[matt]

Sukie;

For shame, mademoiselle.....It is Lent and one must consider higher things...

that is consider, I say....

[Dave]

With a melon!??

[BR]

Some of my favorite S & F movies:

"Who's Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" Great scene with French male chef cooking wearing only an apron, and Jacqueline Bisset going into spasms over his desserts.

Japanese movie, it was either Tampopo or The Tax Collector - how about a goldfish in a bowl on her stomach and a kiss gently passing a raw quail egg back and forth :)

Of course, the oyster scene in Tom Jones.

"Dangerous Beauty" - the Venetians already knew the art of food and love back in the Middle Ages.

And even earlier: a poem by Virgil, "The Salad" with double entendres that made me roll on the floor with laughter :)

[JM Hanes]

Clarice:

Guess I've been so busy with other things, I've fallen outside the urban food loop: What on earth is "artisan" bread?

[Daddy]

JMH,

Its probably what we'll all be reduced to eating once this economy collapses.

[BR]

When I first arrived in America, I was fascinated by all the descriptions for cooking eggs. Then my husband teased me till I was in peels of laughter:

Scrambled Leggs
Over Easy
Sunny side up...
There were more.

[BR]

Once, when walking past a market with an outdoor display in Paris, I literally turned back and did a double take - I had never seen such asparagus in my life - about an inch and a half wide tips, light pink and subtle lime green.

[BR]

Oe, I just remembered another movie about food and love - "Like Chocolate for Water."

[BR]

Ohmigod, did anyone see the hilarious outtakes shown at the end in "Grumpy Old Men" or its sequels? The old man and old lady in the supermarket vegetable section? I still have to resist giggling when I'm picking out cucumbers and hope no one is watching.

[bgates]

about an inch and a half wide tips, light pink and subtle lime green.

What?

Lime green??!?!?

Oh, asparagus. OK.

[PeterUK]

".i'm looking forward to my bacon and eggs breakfast again fulltime and am praying someone will say i never should have stopped in the first place."

In which case,try a toasted and buttered potato cake,best under the egg(s) with it.

[Porchlight]

BR, loved your reference to Tampopo and the oyster scene in Tom Jones. Need to see both of those again...

[Daddy]

"An outdoor display in Paris...about an inch and a half wide...subtle lime green".

Does The Jolly Green Giant not wear trouser's in Europe?

[clarice]

jmh-- bread made in small batches and hand crafted without preservatives--usually flour, salt, water and yeast--often somewhat irregularly shaped and dusted with flour or seeds...Here's a pic of a loaf

http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/images/book_no_tilt_purchase.jpg

[clarice]

frau jedons-- the book artisan bread in five minutes a day has a good recipe for "deli style rye" that tastes quite like European ryes and on the authors' website is a recipe for brotchen that looks very good.
http://www.artisanbreadinfive.com/

[Extraneus]

Great link to The Salad, BR.

[Thomas Collins]

Becasue this seems to be the thread devoted to various bodily functions, I thought I would, at the risk of being classified as a "bottom feeder," direct the attention of JOMers to the LUN.

[Frau Jedöns]

Tampopo! Food as sex toys! The sex and the noodles; no, make that the noodles and the sex in light of the topic. What a great movie. We were inspired to drive across L.A. county to go to a noodle restaurant in Redondo Beach.

Thanks, Clarice. I also like Leader's and Blahnik's Bread Alone but don't use it often. The Brea Bakery book has a great white sourdough with walnut oil and walnuts, often too rich for "mature" digestions. I'll check out the Brötchen recipe.

[BR]

Ah yes, in search of the perfect noodle!

And then there's the Chinese joke - what's number 69 on the menu? Beef and Broccoli.