Posts tagged anthony bourdain

Vote for my Anthony Bourdain Essay: “Opposable Thumbs Up”

Aug 25th

Anthony Bourdain Medium Raw Challenge

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! Er, your eyes, rather. And a few moments of your time. Anthony Bourdain is sponsoring a writing contest, which I felt quite compelled to enter. But I need YOUR help to win!

The winner stands to have their 500-word piece printed in the forthcoming paperback edition of Anthony Bourdain’s latest book, Medium Raw. The prompt was a seemingly simple question with a cauldron of complex possible answers: “Why cook well?”

To read my essay, “Opposable Thumbs Up”, and give it a boost of support, head to http://randyclemens.com/bourdain. You can (and should!) vote for my entry each and every day through 30 September.

Many thanks in advance for the votes! (And for kindly glossing over the unfortunate spelling mishap in paragraph 2. “Finger tops” should be “fingertips”. Sigh.) Please add http://randyclemens.com/bourdain to your internet bookmarks, or add it as a home page tab so you remember to vote early and vote often!

anthony bourdain, competition, cooking, Food, history, Personal, writing

Food In The News: 8/14 – 8/20

Aug 20th

Posted by Randy in News

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So, this may just be the answer to my less-than-frequent blog posts. I read an awful lot of articles about food, whether stumbling on them organically, or finding them via my friends on Facebook, Twitter, and the like. Every Friday, I’ll post the most interesting items I find for your approval, and maybe a book recommend if I’m in the middle of one. Read on!

Development Threatens One of World’s Oldest Fruit Seed Collections (Civil Eats)

228 Million Eggs Recalled Following Salmonella Outbreak (Associated Press, via Yahoo! News)

Why There’s More To Cookbooks Than Recipes (The Observer, guardian.co.uk)

Hunger and Obesity – Two Sides of the Same Broken Food System (Ecocentric)

Raw Milk: Northeast Organic Farming Association Fights Massachusetts Dept. of Agricultural Resources Herdshare Crackdown (The Complete Patient)

School Children Warned Against Energy Drink Boost (Eat, Drink, and Be)