Posted by Sheryl Kirby in news and media, rag round-up on August 28, 2008 at 4:25 pm
Oh, look, it's film festival time again, when otherwise sane and logical people whip themselves into a frenzy to get a glimpse of some celebrity who could not care less about them. Good times. At NOW, Steven Davey provides your annual stalker guide with a list of restaurants where celebrities are most likely to be seen (or not, now that they've been warned the hoi polloi will be hanging out there too). Maybe if you're lucky, you'll see that pouty-lipped gal with all the babies dribble salad dressing down her chin. The fun never stops during TIFF, does it? And the fun expands to Leslieville this year as Joy Bistro becomes an official TIFF "hospitality partner". Davey gives it 3 Ns which means it's decent but not fabulous, but who cares, because OMG, celebrities!!!!! Graham Duncan's got info on the Grapes For Humanity event.
At Eye, Alan A. Vernon and Sean Kelly Keenan channel their inner 60s ad men, with a review of Steak. Makes you want a martini and a cigar.
More inspectors good... irradiation bad. Metro announces that the Federal government plans to hire more inspectors but also wants to allow irradiation of processed meat products, a procedure that generally allows processors to slack off in terms of sanitation requirements in their factories.
Also at Metro, Billy Munelly has a primer on Alsace wines, Barb Holland cooks with broccoli rabe (aka. rapini), and there's a recipe from The Summertime Anytime Cookbook: Recipes from Shutters on the Beach.
Irradiation is safe and effective in reducing bacteria in produce and ready-to-eat foods. It is the most studied food process in history, studied for over 80 years.
To say a sanitizing method will allow processors to slack off in sanitation requirements in their factories is to say irradiation is so effective, if processors are allowed, they may scrimp elsewhere. Using that logic, one would say, using choline, allows processors to slack of.
People who are immune suppressed and wish to avoid doctors want to buy irradiated food given on average, Americans get one food borne illness every four years.