Smoked Ribs; Fancy Food
Put a man in charge of dinner, and look what you get – smoked meat. Joe was home yesterday, so he decided to cook something with our infrequently used smoker. I rarely use this piece of equipment because it takes too much time to smoke a piece of meat. I’m usually too busy running errands and chauffeuring kids to crank up the smoker. It’s much more suitable for a man, you know, the gender that will make the time to watch sports for hours. Smoking is the sports of cooking. There’s little to do but watch your meat smoke and check it every once in a while to make sure it doesn’t overcook. But you need to be able to dedicate hours to attend to it, nonetheless. I made sure we had vegetables – the corn (which was smoked briefly), and the zucchini noodles. Oh, I also prepared the barbecue sauce. The ribs were tasty. Thanks Joe.
In the news… Fancy Food Show Goes Healthy
In direct contrast to our very conventional dinner last night, I read a report in the New York Times about this year’s New York Fancy Food Show. I haven’t been to the show in several years because the dates have conflicted with other obligations, not because I’ve lost interest. It sounds like the emphasis of the show has flip flopped since the last time I attended, when gourmet speciality items were sprinkled with healthy specialty food. Apparently the opposite holds true now, with organic, gluten free, vegan, whole grain, and anti-oxidant products dominating the show. It hasn’t taken long, in the grand scheme of things, for manufacturers to catch onto the popular buzz words among foodies. I wonder just how large the consumer spending is on these products, and will consumer interest ever flip flop in the same way that this show has. The cynic in me suspects it won’t happen in the near term. But give it ten or 20 years and we may see an entirely different product landscape in our supermarkets.
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Reminds me of the year I decided to fry a turkey for Thanksgiving and my brother decide to smoke a turkey. I was done in about an hour. He started smoking his turkey a day before me and had Thanksgiving dinner after me.
Also do you think the fancy food show sets trends or follows trends?
So who had the tastier turkey? If you have the time to turn it into a sporting event, I think I’d prefer the smoking, but I really like smoked food.
I think the Fancy Food Show is a little of both. They bubble up newer trends and make them more mainstream.
I would never tell you my brother’s turkey tasted better even if it did.
Duh. That was a silly question, wasn’t it?