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I can’t specialize.

What I realized recently is that I can’t specialize. 

There are a lot of things that I’m interested in, care about, pursue, practice, create, love, learn about…But I can’t specialize. My interests are too broad. I launched a blog about food a couple of months ago, and now it sits dormant…Why? Because some other shiny object was dangled in my face. Life got busy. I got invested in other projects.

I still love to cook and more than cook, experiment in the kitchen, but I can’t specialize.

“Wise people” always say to find the one thing that you love and devote yourself to it.

But you know, I don’t want to be great at one thing. I want to kick ass at a multitude of things. I want to cook, and travel, and read to my kids, and date my wife, and shoot pictures, and design, and study, and build, and program, and solve. And to be honest, I think I’ve been created capable of doing all of that really well.

I can’t specialize.

I’m not going to be a great designer, but I will be really good.

I’m not going to be a great writer, but I will be really good.

I’m not going to be a great cook, but I will be really good.

I’m not going to be a great many things, but I will do really good things.

All props and power to the specialists, but I’m not like you.

 

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All that being said, I’m resurrecting this little blog. This will once again house my interests. Dropping the specialty sites. Bringing it all under one umbrella. Screw the narrow branding, the SEO, the unified story.

I am who I am and I’ll say what I say to whoever is listening on this channel.

REDESIGN COMING SOON.

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Everyone loves letterpress these days. And I too…

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film from Danny Cooke on Vimeo.

 

Saw this on the Fastcodesign blog…

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Quack Shelf

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Food Blog Love v.2

Food Republic

 

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Marcus Samuelson

 

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Smitten Kitchen

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Congress wants your kids to be fat and diabetic.

NPR shared a story yesterday highlighting Congress’s work to rewrite the healthier school lunch standards that the Obama administration’s Ag Department recommended earlier this year.

Lobbyists win again.

Someone should start a brown bag lunch program that bypasses the schools. Parents qualifying for free and reduced school lunch should be able to redirect the allocated funds to a community-based non-profit that could bag lunches for kids and deliver them to the schools.

Just ramblings.

Nonetheless, it’s an abomination that healthy food for kids has to be reduced to the fragmentation of lobbyist political agendas.

Read the full article at NPR

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Buy “Wild Caught” Fish.

NPR’s food blog ran a story last week highlighting the use of antibiotics in farm-raised tilapia. There only reason these fish are getting pumped full of antibiotics is because like other industriously produced animal products, they are raised in ways that nature did not intend.

In order to keep fish healthy while being raised in small fish ponds, they need an extra boost from antibiotics. Because when you remove an animal from the vastness of nature and cage it up in tight quarters, they more easily spread disease.

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Here’s a link to the story.

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Gwyneth and I use the same dough recipe.

It’s true.

I think it’s all just hijacked from Jamie Oliver’s pizza crust recipe, but Gwyneth Paltrow and I use the same pizza dough recipe. You should try it. Delightful.

Gwen’s got a nice post on her site devoted to making pizza at home. Give it a read at Goop.com

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Good Meat – Cookbook & Recipe Review

A book review of Good Meat: The Complete Guide to Sourcing and Cooking Sustainable Meat by Deborah Krasner

 

 

 

I’ve finally tried out a few recipes and the results are in. Good Meat is a Good Read, but I’m not so sure it has my favorite recipes.

Krasner, A James Beard Award-Winning Chef, tackles the ethics and health related issues related to eating meat in this cookbook. She’s quite knowledgeable about what makes quality meat, what the animals should be eating, how their diet affects your health and is able to frame the conversation well by talking about her husband’s let’s just say, less than favorable, cholesterol numbers. She helped bring those  numbers back to where they should be, not by eating less meat, but by eating the right kind of meat. Good quality, pasture raised beef and other meats that are actually good for you.

So, the content is good, but the recipes are a bit over the top. Unless you regularly have access to heart, tripe, liver, and other offal items, the recipes are a bit limiting. I recently tried a recipe for Garlic and Cardamom Chicken that, unless I made it wrong, left huge chunks of cardamom to crunch on your palate with their pungent citrus burst that is really quite overwhelming in the quantity indicated in the recipe.

So, I don’t know. It’s worth perusing, but I’m not sure it will be a stable go-to tool in my cookbook arsenal any time soon.

 

 

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Farm City – Chicken Droppings and the Education of an Urban Farmer

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Anthony Bourdain to Acquire Books for Ecco – Now publishing food writers.

This should be good. Can’t wait to see who they line up to author the first few books.

Ecco has been publishing Bourdain’s books, now Bourdain will become the editor of Ecco books. Guarantee to have some great niche books with crass things to say about the world of food.

NyTimes Diner’s Journal Article.

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