This Week in Food

What's in Season?

- broccoli
- brussels sprouts
- butternut squash
- collard greens
- fennel
- leeks
- potatoes
- sweet potatoes
- turnips

- grapefruit
- kiwi
- oranges
- tangerines

- duck
- venison
- quail
- rabbit

- clams
- crab
- oysters
- mussels
- scallops

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Anthony Bourdain's feature in The Onion AV Club pays special attention to his show, No Reservations, as well as some aspects of his personal life. The most interesting thing was how he, like the rest of America and real cooking, wanted to slap Sandra Lee upside the head because of that god-awful show she has on the Food Network.

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Also in The Onion AV Club, Patton Oswalt eats his way (painfully) through a KFC Famous Bowl. In one of Oswalt's earlier comedy bits he refers to the fast-food product as a "failure pile in a sadness bowl." (It's not really that far from the truth.) A definite must-read if you need a laugh this afternoon.

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Michael Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, is a wonderful addendum to his previous opus, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. Designed to empower us into eating better as a society and as a Culture, Pollan's mantra, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants," is summed up well in a three-section book in a treatise against nutritionism and reductionist science when it comes to one of the most essential survival tools: eating.

Pollan sets a few guidelines regarding how we should go about eating better, keeping in mind that old adage of "quality over quantity" that Americans seem to have all but forgotten. One particular fun "rule" sounds good to us: he advises that we should have a glass of wine with dinner. We raise a toast to that.

We hope you pick up your copy soon.

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The vodka experiment is finally in motion. We'll keep you posted on our adventures.