My co-workers go out to lunch several times a week. I generally stay at work and each my sensible, healthy(ish) frozen meal and supplement it throughout the day with tea, carrots and hummus, fruit and whatever bad things someone brought it to ruin us. But today was a good day to get out and so I went. We had a nice lunch at Sammy's Woodfired Pizza, a chain that's pretty similar to Pizza Nova and California Pizza Kitchen. I'd never been there, but I'd had pizza from Trader Joe's (a great market) twice in the past week and I didn't want any more. So I ordered the Kobe beef mini cheeseburgers with gorgonzola cheese a chipotle sauce and a hint of something else. They were delicious.
If you know anything about Kobe beef, it's supposed to be some of the most delicious beef in the world because the cows are massaged daily to get the fat to comingle with the meat in a way that makes them singularly scrumptious. Kobe beef is supposed to come from the city of Kobe, Japan. But most of it really comes from an island less than an hour from Kobe called Awajishima. That's where I lived during my two years teaching English. My apartment was at the top of a hill about 10 minutes from the junior high school where I taught. Halfway up the hill was a barn that had several cows that may have eventually become Kobe beef. They were good neighbors. I never smelled them or heard them playing any loud music. But I probably ate some of their relatives anyway. And that probably ought to change. Not necessarily for animal rights reasons - althought it's certainly something to think about. We may need to start eating a lot less meat for the future of the planet. There was an excellent NY Times article called "Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler" that really had me doing even more thinking about how much change we need in the very near future to bring the world back from the precipace. We can't sustain the lifestyle we're living. And as countries like China and India develop their middle classes and increase their energy needs exponentially, we are well and truly fucked. There are millions of new cars being put on the roads every year in China and India. They now sell a car in India called the Tata for $2500! This is a very scary thing. I'm going to link to the article, get this off my chest and then shut up for the day..
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! Ok, I'm done. Have a nice day...
If you know anything about Kobe beef, it's supposed to be some of the most delicious beef in the world because the cows are massaged daily to get the fat to comingle with the meat in a way that makes them singularly scrumptious. Kobe beef is supposed to come from the city of Kobe, Japan. But most of it really comes from an island less than an hour from Kobe called Awajishima. That's where I lived during my two years teaching English. My apartment was at the top of a hill about 10 minutes from the junior high school where I taught. Halfway up the hill was a barn that had several cows that may have eventually become Kobe beef. They were good neighbors. I never smelled them or heard them playing any loud music. But I probably ate some of their relatives anyway. And that probably ought to change. Not necessarily for animal rights reasons - althought it's certainly something to think about. We may need to start eating a lot less meat for the future of the planet. There was an excellent NY Times article called "Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler" that really had me doing even more thinking about how much change we need in the very near future to bring the world back from the precipace. We can't sustain the lifestyle we're living. And as countries like China and India develop their middle classes and increase their energy needs exponentially, we are well and truly fucked. There are millions of new cars being put on the roads every year in China and India. They now sell a car in India called the Tata for $2500! This is a very scary thing. I'm going to link to the article, get this off my chest and then shut up for the day..
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING! Ok, I'm done. Have a nice day...
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