food

Seize the Bacon

BWeave12 November 9, 2011

You’ve heard of pig-in-a-blanket? This is pig-in-a-pig-blanket.

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On the Conversion of Grass and Sunlight; or, Round Steak in a World Gone Mad

cow November 1, 2011

An animal with four stomachs is on its way to mine.

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How the Bar Jester Would Fix America (Warning: It Involves Coercion)

casino-fun1 September 7, 2011

The underpopulated farm and the crowded casino remain for me the enduring emblems of hope and despair, respectively.

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Cool as a Cucumber–In This Heat

Cucumber on vine July 20, 2011

Soon you’ll all be cool as cucumbers–and soon enough as cold as the grave.

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Fatness Shrugged

obesity233 July 13, 2011

There is more work to do. And we could do it.

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Bar Jester Chronicles 14: Contra Diem Patris

fathers_day_graphics_05 June 21, 2011

Ask your raving beauty whether she wants her buns toasted.

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Careful Exegesis and the Au Bleu Ribeye

RibEye1 June 14, 2011

People who cook the flavor out of beef should just eat old shoes.

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Indirect Heat: 1; Miami Heat: 0

pork-tenderloin June 1, 2011

But oh how I loved the days of the Big O.

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How to Cheat on Your Wife in the Kitchen

konriko May 11, 2011

Sneak another mint julep during the replay. Oh lord that’s good!

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Would You Call this Sloth or Shamelessness or Both?

ego May 3, 2011

Won’t someone please think of the children?

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On Style and Substance and Aldo Leopold

Aldo_Leopold_at_work March 23, 2011

The place for dismemberment is called a university.

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Diet, meet Butter

January 31, 2011

What did Grandma really eat?

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Breakfast with the Bar Jester (Part 2)

Farm_Fresh_Eggs_172112602_std January 19, 2011

Ladies, get your eggs ready!

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The Teleology of Vodka

vodka_bycicle 2 December 1, 2010

Millions were waiting for “Breakfast with the Bar Jester, Part 2″ Their wait continues.

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Breakfast with the Bar Jester (Part 1)

coffee November 23, 2010

Whoso governs the belly can hope to govern the other appetites. This is not a new teaching. It is basic asceticism.

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Sausage Time Machine

Meat grinder-1 October 22, 2010

Does food have a context of time and place?, or, How to make your own sausage.

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