El célebre chef Jamie Oliver, expone de manera brillante su idea para enseñarle a los niños a comer y cocinar en las escuelas. Habilidades básicas que ya no se enseñan en ninguna parte.
No se pierdan la parte en la que muestra la cantidad de azucar que consumen los niños durante los primeros cinco años sólo con la leche saborizada.
Michael Rosenwald, un acumulador confeso, decide rehacer su vida, limpiar, donar algunas cosas y tiene una epifanía:
This didn’t feel as bad as I had thought it would. I kept telling myself, This stuff isn’t me. If it all disappeared in a fire, my body would not implode, my identity wouldn’t turn to ashes. I would emerge, walking out the front door with soot on my face, the same person I was before the flames, only without the stuff. The stuff was not me, the stuff was not me
Entiendo perfectamente. Hasta que tuve un momento Fight Club, fui una de esas personas (¿si? ¿uno puede curarse? ¿dejar de acumular?). La historia detrás de este link es para los que todavía viven entre las proverbiales pilas de cosas. Acumular no paga.
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Kenji, de Serios Eats, deconstruye y reelabora la mítica papa frita de McDonald’s, con la finalidad de crear la papa perfecta en casa. En su búsqueda, va inclusive al extremo de pedir papas congeladas en uno de los restaurantes:
I figured I’d be just be able to walk into the store and order them straight from the cashier.
«Welcome to McDonald’s, may I take your order?»
«Yes Ma’am. I’d like a large fries please, hold the cooking.»
«Excuse me?»
I know she’s already said no in her head, but I press on just the same: «Um… I’d just like the frozen fries please.»
«I’m sorry sir, we just don’t do that.»
Time for some intimidation tactics: «Ok. Could I speak to the manager please?»
«I am the manager.»
Sh*t. I bring out the really big guns: «Listen, the thing is, my wife is pregnant—like really pregnant—and she sent me on a quest for McDonald’s french fries. But she only likes them really fresh, like straight out of the fryer fresh, so I figured I’d just get some frozen, and fry them for her at home. You know how it is. Women—no accounting for’em, right?»
Consigue la receta completa en The Burger Lab: How to Make Perfect Thin and Crisp French Fries | A Hamburger Today.