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Nightmare: Beach Death
Friends and I arrive at the beach, all is jovial. Until we settle ( Read more... ) -
Beef on Ice
Ever since I’ve had my own epiphanies about food, there hasn’t been too many platters I won’t try. On Fear Factor, contestants will be squeamishly chomp down cow testicles. I’d eat calmly as I eat a steak. On the Food Network they’re cooking cockroaches. It actually sounds good to me. Add some salt and it’s like a chip with protein and a gooey ( Read more... ) -
Capitalism Unites
I think celebrity cooks generally promote good cooking, sometimes they’ll show the public how to make something that will just taste good and not necessarily good or healthy. I think that the public and therefore the television networks have a large impact on what these celebrity cooks make for us. Television networks want good ratings. First there ( Read more... ) -
Dinner/No Dinner
I remember when I was younger, my family used to eat dinner together the way the ideal American family does. My dad was at the head, my mom on the side, my oldest brother on the other side and me and my sister on the other end. It sort of created a family heirarchy. Even though I saw my mother more often, putting my father at the head of the table ( Read more... ) -
Omnivore's Solution
Americans don’t know what they’re eating. The things we eat still have names: Twinkie, Chicken McNuggets, Steak. But how these things came from nature to our dinner plate, even the latter, is more obscure than we realize, and sometimes more than we would like to know. Such is the story of Michael Pollan’s book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma. To allude to ( Read more... ) -
out of wack with food
a series of 5 journal entries we were assigned in my English class ( Read more... ) -
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If procrastination is the fear of success,
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kids that are careful and thoughtful and sensitive grow up to be free and risky and foolish
kids that are free and risky and foolish grow up to be careful and thoughtful and sensitive
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Cheerleading wasn't the first frontier, a frontier that most guys won't take upon themselves to try, ...wasn't the first frontier of masculinity I faced ( Read more... ) -
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I'm slowly writing my autobiography. with this journal. Like half my entries are autobiographical. Sooner or later, probably later, much, much later, I'm going to sit down and organize them and edit them and rewrite them and get it published ( Read more... )