Well friends, I know I haven't posted here in a while and, unfortunately, it doesn't look I will be disturbing the dust on this thing for long. Josh and I are heading to Italy for a three month stay and then on to the UK for another three months. Here is the address for our blog:

http://joshandlexyblog.blogspot.com/I just picked up a new camera ( Read more... )

Below is an interesting talk by Mark Bittman on the topic of sustainable food. If you cook at all on a regular basis, you probably own at least one Bittman cookbook. If you don't, go get one. His books are as useful as The Joy of Cooking, which, as far as I'm concerned, is the culinary version of the bible. The man is a prolific writer on the ( Read more... )

I heard an NPR report the other day on the end of Neoliberalism and the rise of the first true test of Keynsianism. I have the feeling that this is an amazing historical event, the beginning of a new economic era. A majority of my college education has been about the negative effects of almost three decades of neoliberal policies and structural ( Read more... )

I have a job stocking shelves at a retail store. I spend a lot of time thinking about global capitalism and how this job connects me to millions of impoverished sweatshop workers around the world. I was stocking hideous plastic christmas trees on a shelf and wondering what the woman worker from China was thinking about when she assembled it. She ( Read more... )

I hope this whole mess turns out to be the deaths spasms of neo-liberalism. Rest in pieces. May the system which rises from neo-liberalism's burnt corpse actually be based on giving a fuck about other human beings. Here's to the good times! Here's to the better times! Here's to the times when government oversight prevented raw greed from ( Read more... )

The beer will be ready to drink on Sunday. Damn, I'm excited! I opened a bottle at the capoeira party last Saturday and the stuff tastes AMAZING. It was still a little flat, which just means it needs to sit longer. Two weeks is generally the bottling minimum, but sitting for longer is good for flavor. This means the first few bottles on Sunday ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago I decided it was time to get into homebrewing. I have for about a year now been obsessed with baking bread and it is not too much of a stretch to connect this with beer. After all, both processes rely entirely on the magic of yeast to turn grain sugars into alcohol and carbon dioxide. Bread baking is concerned mostly with the ( Read more... )

Bold things you've eaten, underline the ones you like.

1. Venison
2. Nettle Tea
3. Huevos Rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile and 'gator too
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese Fondue
8. Carp ah, Jew food...
9. Borscht
10. Baba Ghanoush
11. Calamari holy crap they have so much calamari in Tanzania
12. Pho Saigon, $4.25 a bowl!
13. Peanut butter and ( Read more... )

I'm leaving soon for Tanzania. Hoot! I made a new blog so my family and my parents' friends could read about my travels without also reading all the stuff in this journal. Not that I've posted all that much lately...I might still update this thing, but maybe not? Anyhoo, here is the web address:

lexytanzblog.blogspot.comThat's easy to remember ( Read more... )

Thank fucking god! Tastespotting is back. I thought I was never going to get my food porn fix again.