First things first. Salon's Diary of a turkey killer is decidely not the daily musings of someone who works in a slaughterhouse. It's a thoughtful piece by a former vegetarian turned carnivore who decides to raise and kill her own bird. The author is also quite an engaged gourmand. She grows her own heirloom tomatoes, and thus chose to purchase a heritage bird. A Heritage Bronze, like the one pictured here, to be specific.
Today Salon.com features a decent interview with Anthony Bourdain. Some of it is fairly amusing--most accounts of eating marginally butchered warthog generally are. Still, some might find other parts of it a little tired, as many of the questions seem geared toward coaxing forth the extreme views that Bourdain is known for. Not that I didn't enjoy hearing him call Rachael Ray a "bobble-head."
I guess maybe I'd just rather watch or read about him out doing his thing, eating "squeezle" in Vietnam, than talking trash. Still, he has is eloquent moments, talking about the best and worst meals of his life, and how women had to forge a path into high-end restaurant kitchens. All in all, it's an entertaining interview. For even more Bourdain, Megnut has short piece about his 50th birthday party, written by Michael Ruhlman.
Salon.com currently features an interview
with Ryan Nerz, author of Eat This Book: A Year of Gorging and Glory on the Competitive Eating Circuit. The
book chronicles Nerz's experiences and observations from having emceed several eating contests over the course of a
year. What's even better is that there's another book out on the subject, entitled Horseman of the
Esophagus. Incidentally, both have hot dogs on their covers. In the Salon interview, Nerz talks about some of
the more hotly contested subjects in the world of competitive eating, namely the "belt of fat" theory, which
tries to explain why thin people have better luck in eating competitions than larger folks.
Salon.com recently featured a an interview with food politics writer and frequent
NYT Magazine contributor Michael Pollan. The discussion focused mainly on Pollan's new book, The Omnivore's
Dilemma. Like Pollan's The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma appears to take a few core
examples—in this case, four American meals—and discuss them in great detail. Pollan breaks down the the
economic and political components of meals from McDonald's and Whole Foods, as well as organic farms and foraged
materials. In the Salon interview, he outlines some of his views on big agriculture and big organic farming, misleading
labeling at stores like Whole Foods, and shifting hardwired cravings for fast food. 
Butterscotch sauce is a rich and buttery treat that makes a great seasonal dessert topper in place of chocolate or whipped cream.
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