quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

This was horrible. He made it sound like Trader Joes was the absolute worst option available to him and the food was cheap and nasty -- he should write another column when his pay gets cut to the point when he has to shop at Aldi.

― Sir William of Joel (Nicole), Monday, June 22, 2009 6:41 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously. what i wouldn't give for a trader joe's!

trader joes has pretty shitty produce

ya but cheap wine

so

"hey guys, i made some chicken meatballs! take that, recession!"

also, "supermarket spices" oh heavens no god forbid

There's a Trader Joe's right across from where I work and up the road from where I live, along with a Mitsuwa and when absolutely necessary a 7-11 = covered for all eventualities.

i have a wicked green market a 10 min bike ride away and a really good grocery store around the corner so im not sweating it but i always dig going to tj's and checking out all their wild and woolly products

i got mad at him when he said "rich, life-affirming stock" because i hate when people talk about food like that

I hate reading about it from some douchebag, but then someone cooks for me on a cold night and because they love me and want to share fellowship & use up some shellfish, and I'm handed a bowl of amazing somethingorother made for me by hand and I feel like if I were dead, that food would bring me back from beyond the grave, and then words like "life-affirming", though still treading a fine line, do seem to apply.

ya i think life-affirming is a fine thing to say about food. i mean it's not really an exaggeration.

i kinda wanted to spit when dude lamented that he needed to use more spices because it was not flavorful enough when cooked simply, alice waters RIP

i would still get mad at you xp

Pretty sure I can live with that.

haha well food is certainly nourishing but to say that it affirms life is laying it on a bit thick -- it's not like he's acknowledging his place in the food chain, "this $35 chicken died so that we may live" sorta sentiment

i dunno man it affirms life 4 me

it's one of the things that makes life worth living + added bonus of actually keeping me alive

i mean if it isn't, what is?

i agree, but i understand that not everyone loves food as much as me

some ppl just eat because they have to

those people are kind of lame fwiw

eh i'm just being fussy over applying personality & agency to foodstuffs, if anything then "lifestyle-affirming" would be most appropriate here

Thinking baout spices, was just reading a critique of CS Lewis's characterization of the Calormenes, and I never realized but he makes a huge point of them smelling like garlic and onions to show their evil foreign-ness, and I guess Lewis was infamous for only approving of extremely bland English home-cooking!! The inherent evillity of the Oriental, the Muslim, the foreigner who eats funny. "I had to add lots of spices" guy can STFU for so many reasons.

I'm more disturbed at the idea of someone keeping stock in their fridge for weeks and diligently re-boiling it every three days TBH. Maybe doing this affirms something deep inside.

Yah, that's what your freezer is for I mean cmon dude.

haha i know

"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. " -Bertrand Russell

Stop trying to prove a need for yr existence, guy, whoah srsly.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/23/business/23wells-190.jpg

His son Dexter:
http://www.pastdeadline.com/images/2008/01/07/dexter1.jpg

Hey perfect, an LA equivalent also published in the Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/fashion/21rockkids.html

Thanks to unperson for pointing this out on Twitter -- a favorite bit:

Indie music has a long and storied history in Southern California, dating back to the punk scene that flourished in Orange County in the late 1970s...

Hudson Franzoni, 17, started drumming five years ago. To encourage his development, his parents built him a studio at their home in the Malibu hills.

is that kid playing a bassoon in that picture

i don't know but they're at a fucking playground

i always thought this band - http://www.discogs.com/artist/Home

would do great in this fuzzy-sweater, regressive, feeb rock age we live in - and i like them! - but they were ahead of their time

can i just say that--at least before the ridiculous $35 chicken piece--I really like the Cooking with Dexter series! It's been interesting, especially compared to what passes for food writing in the NYT magazine these days.

no, sorry, you can't say that

mods, please delete

i like the old recipe / new recipe column

i don't know but they're at a fucking playground

pretty sure thats someones backyard

xp come on, really?

I think I judge food writing these days strictly if it makes me want to cook, and those never do

and i'm usually a hesser stan

ya it's more interesting to me thanr eading about some guy's brat making string beans

i usually ignore the article and read the recipe--the articles almost ALWAYS suck

i've been liking 'the cheat'--especially the fish tacos piece

we have made the fish tacos at least 6 or 7 times since the recipe came out

fish tacos of the ruling class

haha

I still haven't made them! Mostly because my wife is breastfeeding and convinced she can't have cabbage.

well if we're going to talk about it, this was really the LOLiest bit imo:

Michael Shuman, the bassist for Queens of the Stone Age who went to Campbell Hall, is the son of Ira Shuman, a producer of “Night at the Museum” and the new “Pink Panther” films. The band is signed to Interscope Records and performs its psychedelic-tinged hard rock around the world.

I hope that description makes it into a QOTSA press release at some point.

ps Josh Homme's rant on Interscope from 2007 always bears repeating: http://www.antiquiet.com/interviews/2007/12/antiquiet-interviews-josh-homme-of-queens-of-the-stone-age/

yeah I had looked at the fish taco recipe and gone "meh"; Mr. Que, however, cooked up a batch and goddamn are they delicious. The sauce is really, really, really good.

Anyhow I came onto this thread hoping there would be more MeMe stuff.

More batshit crazy woman, please!!!

i can't even mindlessly highlight text when im reading articles on the web site cuz then a window pops up giving me the dictionary definition of "the"

― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 22, 2009 7:19 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hahahaha ^ - i am so busted - have this exact problem

― Tracer Hand, Monday, June 22, 2009 7:21 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

me too :/

― some dudes are bigger than others (s1ocki), Monday, June 22, 2009 8:48 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^

Out, damned spots.

oh the anguish, the torment, the seasonal steam-cleaning