1. Robert Reich teaches Berkeley how to save money.
2. Video on wine and cereal pairings.
3. The culture that is Britain: half of them report having been injured while eating biscuits; hat tip to The Browser.
5. The decline of grass-fed beef in Argentina.
Having eaten beef in both Argentina and the US, I can confidently predict that if Argentines move to US style agriculture, that will really, really suck. Bad news no matter how you look at it.
I don’t have time to view the video, but what goes better with Honey Nut Cheerios- white or red?
Timothy Geithner:
I didn’t watch the video either – not yet anyway – but a nice dry rose seems like a good choice for Honey Nut Cheerios.
Cocoa Pebbles clearly calls for a red, though.
I completely and totally agree with Ed. The difference in quality and taste, and the side-effects of changing the feed system, are all bad. Adopting feedlot systems for beef in Argentina and to a much extent in Brazil, is an idea so bad it hurts. The really idiotic thing is the story’s focus on the gaucho.
Why do current journalists see a fire blazing in front of them and yet write about the firetruck’s tires?
1. You don’t save money (long-term) by cutting TA’s.
(Good) feedlot beef is still quite good, and I seem to have no problem finding American-produced grass-fed beef.
Help! I’m having a hard time finding grass fed / grass finished beef in northern Virginia. Any suggestions?
Britain is good at underplaying personal drama.
And so when a story like the one about havoc-
wreaking biscuits comes along it gets ample
coverage, since it is rich in humor and there is
no quarrel with another, except perhaps with
a pet striving for the same dropped biscuit.
During my 20 years in Britain I cannot recall
breaking a tooth on a biscuit. And one can get
lightly sweetened ones, a blessing.
One never hears of cookies in England.
Remember that experiment in which people rate a supposedly expensive wine as better than the same wine when they are told it’s a different, cheaper wine? Same phenomenon with grass-fed beef.
Ai yi yi.
I’ve eaten a lot of beef in my life and the last grass fed/finished steak I had, at Local 16 in DC, was incredible, a memorable steak.
And my agenda is to repeat that experience.
Jake, do you assume that all the wealthy people eating corn-fed beef at expensive steak houses have functioning taste buds and no social agenda?
If grass fed/finished beef tastes like the steak I had at Local 16, I prefer it.
So tell me again about my taste buds and my agenda.
Whoops, my fault. I misread the article.
Anon, it is absurd to suggest rich people have a pro corn fed beef agenda. Nobody does, with the exception of agricultural producers and people in favor of better tasting beef.
Strictly grass fed supporters, on the other hand, seem to support it for reasons other than taste. My only point was that in terms of taste, grain finished beef is superior. I will again note that the high-end market for beef (including kobe beef) is not grass finished.
Go to Smith & Wollensky’s in downtown DC and have a bone in ribeye. Then try some grass fed beef. Then tell me grass fed is superior.
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