48-Hour Food Journal I recently travelled to New York for a business meeting. I ate way too much. The following is my 48-hour food journal Wednesday 8:20 p.m.: Checked into the Soniat House hotel in the French Quarter the evening before an early-morning flight to New York. I now have a new favorite hotel inContinue reading “48-Hour Food Journal”
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Fasting
Fasting I have a friend who is fasting during Lent. I’m not talking about a not-eating-meat-on-Friday fast, or an I’m-gonna-give-up-red-wine-for-40-days-but-still-drink-white-wine fast. No, he’s doing an honest-to-goodness, Mahatma Gandhi-type fast— nothing but water. Fasting is a method of religious observance, penitence, and purification which is practiced in several religious faiths. I am of the protestant persuasion,Continue reading “Fasting”
Las Vegas
Las Vegas LAS VEGAS— I am in a suite in the Venetian Hotel high above the Las Vegas Strip. I don’t gamble, I don’t drink, and I have trouble staying up until midnight. I am not in this city for most of the reasons that people come to this over-electrified desert locale. I am hereContinue reading “Las Vegas”
Deer Sausage
Deer Sausage I am not a deer hunter, yet I have a freezer full of deer sausage. A few weeks ago I wrote a column about the so-called Obese Bill (HB 282). In it I offered several pieces of alternative legislation to the Mississippi House of Representatives bill that proposes to ban fat people fromContinue reading “Deer Sausage”
We the (Obese) People
We the (Obese) People My home state has made national headlines once again. Three legislators in the Mississippi House of Representatives proposed a bill (HB 282) that would ban restaurants from serving obese people. As a restaurateur and businessman, doing business in a state where more than 30% of the populace is obese, I amContinue reading “We the (Obese) People”
Beefamato
Beefamato A physician once ordered my 90-year old grandmother to drink Beefamato. Beefamato is tomato juice with beef broth in it. Well, not “real” beef broth, the label states “dried beef broth.” I am not sure why she was ordered to drink Beefamato. Maybe it contained an obscure vitamin she wasn’t receiving in her regularContinue reading “Beefamato”
Breakfast
Breakfast Recently I realized that I can look back over the course of my life and track my age by what I was eating for breakfast. Some people associate songs with certain periods of their lives (I do that, too), but these days I tend to lean more towards food, especially breakfast food. When IContinue reading “Breakfast”
All You Can Eat
All You Can Eat “Buffet Bans Fat People” was the headline I came across while surfing the Internet. O.K., I’ll bite. According to a story on Breitbart.com a man in Houma, La was charged double for making too many trips to the buffet line. Ricky Labit, a 265-pound offshore worker, said he had been frequentingContinue reading “All You Can Eat”
New Years Hopes and Wishes 2008
New Years Hopes and Wishes 2008 In keeping with my annual tradition of not committing to anything that might make me change my eating habits, once again, I will not make New Year’s resolutions. Instead, I submit my annual list of culinary hopes and wishes for 2008. Some old, some new, all heartfelt: 1. IContinue reading “New Years Hopes and Wishes 2008”