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Saturday, November 22, 2003

Splendid Table has a neat little page about food movies, but Babette’s Feast – my favorite – seems to be missing from their list. My second favorite, Tampopo, is there and it’s obscure enough that you know they were thorough.  Here is the complete Splendid Table list:   The List: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie * Comfort and Joy Dinner Rush * Tampopo * The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover * Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe Ravenous * Delicatessen How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman Note that Eat Drink Man Woman, Big Night, and Like Water For Chocolate also missed the cut (and those are choice cuts). Only the ones with asterisks are available on DVD and three of them (the last three) are about cannibalism! – the ultimate Atkins. 7:01:01 PM    comment []

This is not fast food. 9:32:34 AM    comment []

Jeffersonian Democracy In Action   There were not enough votes to pass the Medicare Bill in the US House of Representatives this morning at 3am. A vote is normally conducted in 15 minutes, with two extra minutes tagged on for stragglers. So Dennis Hastert extended the time to three hours. Republican leaders then visited the captive audience Republican congressmen who opposed it, one at a time. You know, carrots and sticks.   By 6am, there were sufficient votes. Democratic congressmen who had previously voted for the bill when it seemed destined to fail (a so-called “safe” vote) scuffled to reverse, but the speaker quickly brought the gavel down. Gotcha!   This is the democracy we’re exporting to Iraq.   When it passes the Senate, this bill will make it illegal to import those “dangerous” cheaper pharmaceuticals drug companies foist off on Canada, the same drug companies who drafted this legislation and pay the big bucks to put trustworthy Art Linklater on the tube telling seniors to vote for representatives whose souls they own. The same drug companies who have nurtured double digit annual increases in prices over the past decade. Wonder if they have a plan to export Medicare to Iraq too? 9:25:53 AM    comment []

The smoke photographs better outside the smoker anyway. That white thing is a wireless thermometer, with the probe held in place with a clothespin. It's 149ºF in there right now and it's probably a good time to rotate and shift the smoker trays. Smoked food is always better when you stay up all night with it. 3:19:57 AM    comment []

Hey, remember when that dope fiend on the radio got all over Clinton for a $200 haircut? What followed was what one protester, Jane Harmason, 37, from nearby Bishop Auckland, called: "Another painstakingly choreographed picture opportunity for American television audiences, culminating in a £1m lunch. All that was missing was Inspector Morse stepping out of his red Jaguar to share a very English pint." 2:48:32 AM    comment []

If you really believe it's there you can see the smoke. There's a bit of Heisenberg in smoker photography - to see the smoke you have to let it out. 2:18:44 AM    comment []