Food Notes: 11/5
Chili, Julia Child, French Onion soup and more.
For about 12 hours this week it was seasonable cold, so it was the perfect opportunity to cook up some chili. Here’s where I’m supposed fill in a heartwarming story about chili, but the truth is I suggested we make chili because its basically a one-pot meal. We’d just come off a three-day 3k weekend, and with Election Day also a school holiday, we were burning out.
Chili is basically the kind of thing where you combine ingredients and let the heat do the work for a couple of hours. My wife liked the idea, mainly because she wanted to give Alison Roman’s viral chili a whirl.
While the votes are tallied this evening, here are some pictures of food:
Cancer Corn
Apparently, candy corn is filled with carcinogenic Red Dye 3. Well, probably shouldn’t have been eating those things anyway.
Another Pizzeria Where You Wait On Line
We were enjoying Saturday’s unseasonably warm weather at McGolrick Park where we ran into some 3K friends. When our three-year-old got hungry, we thought we might try feeding him some pizza at the hottest new pizzeria in the city, Chrissy’s. As we walked by at four in the afternoon, we saw a line. We did not have Chrissy’s pizza. This feels more like a weekday afternoon.
A Book of Her Own
Julia Child is the latest biography from the Little Golden Book series for kids. These easy to read, easy to buy books include favorites like the Poky Little Puppy and The Train to Timbuctoo. The biographies in the series include a variety of heroes from sports, film, and politics. For culinary-inclined, there is also a biography of Jacques Pépin.
Bettina’s French Onion Soup
What better way to celebrate Julia Child’s biography than with French onion soup. Bettina Makalintal’s latest newsletter has a recipe, which is great because I’ve been thinking I wanted to make some Frenchy, oniony, soupy, soup.
How Green Are Popular Diets
Trendy fad diets always make for interesting discourse, usually because people get so caught up in them it becomes part of their personality. Here’s a new way of considering them: what’s the carbon impact? Veganism is low carbon, but you might be surprised about the others.
The Pumpkin Is A Lie
Canned pumpkin often isn’t just pumpkin, but also squash. Squash and pumpkin are the same thing, so even though we don’t carve jack-o-lanterns from squash, its botanically all the same.