Category: Gnews

Regina Schrambling has an excellent article on green almonds in the L.A. Times today.  They've got them at Fairway right now.  I saw them the other day and was fascinated.  The NYT article they had posted said you could eat them whole, fuzzy hull and all, but Schrambling says it's best to peel them.  I trust in Gastropoda.

I love a feel-good story, and this Times feature on the Cakeman Raven is great.  I must go pay him a visit.  Has anyone tried his red velvet?  It doesn't look as cocoa-y as Sugar Sweet Sunshine's.  In fact, there's only one teaspoon of cocoa.  And he uses cream cheese frosting as opposed to satin buttercream -- I love me some cream cheese frosting. 

Lucy's Greenmarket Report says ramps have arrived at the Greenmarket.  My friend Julie says they're pretty small this week, but they should be bigger by next week.  Rick the potato farmer is selling them for $2.50/sizeable bunch.  Hopefully the fiddleheads will also show up on Saturday. 

A really good piece of gossip on Gastropoda today:

I didn’t coin this, but “butt-girl for Eli” has a nice ring to it. Especially since inquiring competitors are gossiping that all that tame salmon actually came from the same distributor. I'm sure it's a spurious claim, but it does make you wonder why a cheese shop that hasn’t bought a certain blue for two years is making a fuss about listeria (among myriad unanswered questions). One more and it’s a trend: stories with holes big enough to drive a raw milk tanker-truck through.

And in case you don't feel like hunting down those articles, Auntie Ganda does the work for you:

The wild salmon article ($)

The cheese article

Happy Thai New Year!  The Thai temple in Queens will have Songkran festivities all day Sunday, including lots of yummy food (and if I recall correctly, it's free).  So come take advantage of my people's generosity or, at the very least, douse someone you love with copious amounts of water.  Thai people know, nothing says I love you like a water hose up the nose.

I interrupt this tour to bring you this special bulletin: "A cookie is a sometimes food." 

Tomorrow, Large Boned Bird explains the words of the day: "Gastric bypass." 

**Thank you Gothamist.

A very exciting tidbit from Gothamist: Trader Joe's may be coming to Union Square!  With Sunset Park Mexican restaurants and the coming of the Trader Joe's, I have fewer and fewer reasons to move back to California.

For those of you who haven't had the privilege, Trader Joe's is a hippie haven where you can stock up on everything from wasabi peas to dried strawberries, cheeses to cheap and drinkable wines, and all sorts of organic goodies, all at prices that will put those robber-barons at Whole Foods to shame.