More snippets
Posted by Ann Onn at 12/27/2007 9:22 PM and is filed under Food!,Observations,Political Opinions,Local News 
Here are a few more things that have bubbled up to the surface this week:
- If you're interested in cooking locally grown foods in season, the Local Food Northern Nevada blog has published something that should be helpful. The author, "Shelley," painstakingly recorded all the produce she found at farmer's markets each week last year and has published the results in a spreadsheet.
- I just read something disturbing in the current Hightower Lowdown. It describes the "E. coli loophole": Companies like Tyson and Cargill who conduct their own tests and find E. coli don't have to throw out the meat they find it in. Instead, the U.S. Department of Agriculture lets them set it aside in a "cook only" bin. The companies are allowed to use the tainted meat to make pre-cooked hamburger patties, meat loaf, pizza toppings, taco meat and so on. The government doesn't track what happens to the cooked meat. Another reason to prepare your own food.
- Can you believe the Northern Nevada Medical Center is 25 years old? I still call it Sparks Family Hospital half the time, and the name was changed in 1994! If you have to go to a hospital, it's not a bad place. You can even park right outside the front door.
- Someday I hope to put my opinions on government and business into persuasive, coherent words. Until then Tracy Figler has done a wonderful job of expressing my opinions on the RGJ forums.
- Thanks to Evolution of the Me for the tip about Kenny vs. Spenny. I came across it the other night and watched the whole goats episode. I even laughed out loud a few times, and TV shows don't make me do that very often.
- For some reason, this comment in The Week magazine has stuck with me. It's discussing a review written by Holly Brubach in The New York Times of a book called The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History by Katherine Ashenburg: "Ashenburg successfully builds her story around the notion that every culture fashions its own response to the revulsion and fears inspired by the inescapable fact that we are animals" (my emphasis).
- We definitely have inflation. I've been noticing some things cost more than I'm willing to pay even when they're half off.
Boy, that last comment is especially true when one ventures to the sales racks at REI!!! EEEK!!!
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