"Tax the marketing and sale of unhealthful foods. Another budget booster. This isn't nanny-state paternalism but an accepted role of government: public health. If you support seat-belt, tobacco and alcohol laws, sewer systems and traffic lights, you should support legislation... More
Minimalist is as minimalist does, and Mark Bittman certainly ruffled some feathers at AHT headquarters with yesterday's New York Times column on sausage burgers. Here are two suggestions for making burgers out of sausages that are easier than Bittman's instructions. More
Mark "The Minimalist" Bittman's piece on "sausages in burger form" in the New York Times today has caused much grumbling at AHT headquarters. The premise—and I'm paraphrasing here—is that plain ol' all-beef burgers are boring and that pork- or lamb- or even shrimp-pork shumai-burgers kick beef-burger ass. Here's the fallacy that's got the AHT crew up in arms. More
