I usually agree with CBC TV polymath Rex Murphy.
This rant no exception:
Rex Murphy offers his point of view, this week on the reactions to the Governor-General’s decision to eat raw seal during a community feast in Nunavut.
Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.
Just yesterday I took in a Gymnastics Coaching Web Seminar. It was excellent.
Today I see that Ron Shewchuk is taking barbecue instruction online.
Rockin’ Ronnie’s EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATION COOKOUT
‘Everything I Know About Communication, I Learned From Barbecue.’
Hosted by Ron (Rockin’ Ronnie) Shewchuk, Master Communicator, Barbecue Evangelist and author of his third cookbook, Barbecue Secrets DELUXE!
Price $195.00
I helped Ron post a new header on his Barbecue Secrets podcast blog.
Ron and Kate are in Calgary right now. He’s on the book flogging tour.
His latest cookbook — Barbecue Secrets DELUXE! — is the #1 cookbook in B.C. right now.
This is probably the vilest thing I’ve ever endured.
A People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals expose of commercial meat production.
The video that all meat-eaters should watch and every vegetarian should own, “Meet Your Meat”, narrated by Alec Baldwin, covers each stage of life of animals raised for food. No PETA videos are copyrighted, so copy them for everyone you know.
I recommend you do not click PLAY, not watch it on YouTube.
Katest latest.
Kate’s mocking her husband taking all the credit for the fantastic meals they prepare.
What a surprising twist on her usual comedic theme!
… It will be no ORDINARY main course. Men’s main courses are never ordinary. If they were, men would not cheapen themselves by preparing them. They would rather not participate in the dinner party at all than prepare something ordinary, or worst of all, vegetarian.
This extraordinary main course will require the death of an animal, perhaps the fiercest of animals. …
The Old Man and the Beef
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My favourite Nutrition author — Michael Pollan — has a book I can recommend.
… Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. By urging us to once again eat food, he challenges the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach — what he calls nutritionism — and proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown, unprocessed food. Our personal health, he argues, cannot be divorced from the health of the food chains of which we are part.
In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to moderate our appetites, and return eating to its proper context — out of the car and back to the table. Michael Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Pollan’s last book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. …
The National Coffee Association in 1984 PROVED the benefits of my favourite addiction.
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Study: Coffee Addiction Validated by Improved Sports Performance
… Caffeine, it turns out, actually works. And it is legal, one of the few performance enhancers that is not banned by the World Anti-Doping Agency. …
Exercise physiologists have studied caffeine’s effects in nearly every iteration: Does it help sprinters? Marathon runners? Cyclists? Rowers? Swimmers? Athletes whose sports involve stopping and starting like tennis players? The answers are yes and yes and yes and yes.
Starting as long ago as 1978, researchers have been publishing caffeine studies. And in study after study, they concluded that caffeine actually does improve performance. In fact, some experts, like Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky of McMaster University in Canada, are just incredulous that anyone could even ask if caffeine has a performance effect. …
NY Times – It’s Time to Make a Coffee Run
Rockin’ twittered about This is why you’re FAT
One sample of the extreme food submitted by readers:
Bacon Chili-Topped Cheeseburger
A whole cheeseburger topped with bacon chili and cheese.
In the 1990s I spent a month in Trinidad, the most developed economy in the Caribbean.
When I asked the young guys there what they liked about the States — young people all wanted to move to Canada or the USA — they told me: all-you-can-eat restaurants.
Me too.
When on the road I typically replace breakfast with coffee. Then schedule a big, late lunch at an Asian buffet. And snack in the evening.
The last one I visited for $9.99 included Sushi and a Mongolian Grill.
The only downside … Asian deserts.
Yuck!
Rick McCharles 