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What the F%$k is up with Peanut skins?
Most peanut butter is made from blanched peanuts. Blanching is the technical term for removing the testa, or seed coat, from the peanut kernel. What's the testa you ask? That's just science-speak for that dark reddish, papery coating on every peanut.
Perhaps now you're thinking, "Wait a second. Why are they removing the skins from my peanuts? Didn't I just read somewhere that skins are healthy?" Peanut skins have traditionally been treated by peanut processers as a waste product and sold off as animal feed. But that is changing.
Apple Pie Cookies (recipe - freakin' a right?)
As far as reentry* points to on-a-whim cooking go, these cookies aren’t the most obvious choice. I might have gone with something from the market, or something from a new fall cookbook or maybe just something practical that would feed us for the next few days, like a hearty stew
Bacon, Egg white and cheese flatbread from Subway Review
After experiencing some sticker shock at my last trip to McD’s for breakfast (nearly $8 for two Egg McMuffins!) I was elated to see another chain offering a complete breakfast on the cheap. Subway’s Flatbread Breakfast Combo comes with egg, cheese, and your choice of black forest ham, bacon, or no meat at all. You also get a 16 oz. Seattle’s Best coffee. All this will only set you back $3.00.
*Grubgrade is always easy, simple reading for a good laugh. He even reviews the McDonald's Mac snack wrap. Oigh!
How the other half eats
Food can bring people from very different backgrounds together, but it can also drive us apart. In today’s society, what you can afford to put on your plate might be as powerful an indicator of your social standing as the car you drive or the house that you live in. Although most Americans eat diets that are well beyond the point of subsistence, problems affording adequate food are still widespread in the United States and obesity is a scourge that particularly affects racial minorities (interested readers can check out posts I have written on hunger, and obesity).
All of this begs a question: Is it time to have a national conversation on food inequality?
We may already have one in the making. The issue of “food justice” has become one of the most visible complaints made by the Occupy Wall Street protesters. As one protester told a New York Times reporter: “Food plays a huge part in this movement. Because people are tired of being fed poison.” The image of a modern food system that delivers massive quantities of unhealthy, environmentally destructive food to the majority of Americans has become a powerful symbol of corrupt, uncaring corporate greed. (Even sympathetic Ben and Jerry’s has been criticized)
Mr. T cooking show? Yes please!
