I'm probably being paranoid, but in only two shots did you see the vegetable and the child saying wrong name. The first was broccoli-cauliflower, which is a pretty good guess as they're both in the cabbage family, the second was pear-eggplant. All other occasions, they cut to a different shot or could have dubbed audio over as you couldn't see the child or Jamie actually talking. There again, this is abc, not fox.

Kids should know most of these vegetables before they hit school... but if not before school, I would certainly expect them to learn about them in school. Sure, things like radishes and eggplant I could understand, but potatoes and tomatoes? Terrible. I don't find this hard to believe; the show takes place in one of the unhealthiest cities in America, after all.

seriously though- who eats whole radishes and eggplant ?

I can think of about 2 recipes which actually call for fresh whole eggplant, and neither one of them would be popular in England (unless at a foreign-food restaurant, where even if parents brought kids there, they wouldn't see how the food was prepared).

I bet first graders who live on farms and eat only orgranic food still wouldn't be able to identify half the veggies on that table. (they would get the stuff he held up and asked about though)

Looks like he packed a good sized eggplant in his crotchal region.

Three eggplants, two lemons, one head of broccoli, half of a strawberry, and one blueberry.

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By the way... what is your icon? I'm trying not to be attracted to it.

Success doesn't begin to describe djsunkid's inspired creations!

Just when I thought the roasted halibut was going to steal the show, out came the fois gras. My tastebuds had no idea what they were in for! I can safely say that life has taken on new meaning post Grilled Baby Romaine & Spicy Eggplant.

Totally psyched. I've got some great ideas working. I can't 100% commit that this will be exactly as you guys see it tomorrow night, but this is the plan so far:
VideoSift Tasting Menu 2008

Thai Coconut Soup
With Sunflower Sprout Tempura

Smoked Duck Salad Roll
Spicy Mango-Soy Dip

Pan Roasted Halibut
Stir fry of Wild Chanterelles

Seared Quebec Foie Gras
Tomato “Brioche”, Salad of Green Olive, Almond, Mandarin Orange, Cherry Tomato and Frozen Grape

Salad of Heirloom Tomatoes
Balsamic Reduction, Fresh Mozzarella “Crouton”, Thai Basil, Black Volcanic Salt

“Scallop Wrapped Bacon”
Grilled BC Matsutake mushroom, oven cured Butternut Squash Chip

Grilled Baby Romaine
Spicy Eggplant and shaved Parmigiano Reggiano

Sorbet
Grapefruit and Sambuca

Seared Lamb
Maple-Tamarind Jus, Fiddlehead Tart

Grilled Beef Tenderloin
Potato basket, roasted Baby Beets

Chocolate Sour Cherry Bread Pudding
Macerated Okanogan Strawberries

Lavender Chocolate Truffles


I got a bunch of prep ready for it today, so it'll be awesome whatever happens. Bring yer appetites, folks!

What the hell kind of sandwich was that? It looks like a McChicken and eggplant wrapped in edamame encrusted beef buns. The only reason that sign was still up is because the Hamburglar doesn't want no purple stuff.

hmmm some interesting points for me to try to answer...

first of all jonny, i have caught and eaten my own mackerel and trout, and it was fucking fantastic. I wouldn't do it now, because the idea of the poor thing flapping around suffocating to death in a bucket kinda makes me sad, and it's unnecessary. In fact, fishing as a child might have subconsciously freaked me out enough to make me vegetarian later.

About "fake meat" being tasty... well i don't really eat that stuff, it's processed and expensive anyway, and full of salt and sugar. that's why it's "tasty". actually since i stopped eating meat, everything else became more tasty because my tastebuds aren't overpowered by the animal fat. So different kinds of rice, potatoes, pasta, porridge... they start to taste much much nicer after a while. Obviously compared to meat they taste like cardboard, but i don't compare them to meat. Problem solved. Your brain adapts. I think this is a big problem for people who try to convert. You have to stop craving animal fat and start smelling the difference between jasmine and basmati. It's worth it.

As for "limited alternatives available" i just totally don't get this point. Why replace the meat? Just stop eating it, and eat twice as much of everything else. I have no idea why people need a "substitute". stuff an eggplant for fuck's sake. Eat a whole bucket of salad. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

It drives me insane when I am at some kind of wedding in Lithuania and the kitchen is like "you don't eat meat? do you eat chicken?" and i am like "NOTHING WITH EYES OR LEGS" and they are like "maybe fish?" and i say "FISH HAVE EYES" and they say "oh shit, what the fuck do you eat?" and I am like "EVERYTHING ELSE ON THE PLATE YOU RETARDS!".

Fact is, there's only a few kinds of meat, but thousands of vegetables. There's a cafe I go to where the only veggie option is "potato pancakes without meat"... i.e. just fried potato, nothing else. But if you order meat you get 3 different salads and some boiled rice!!! WTF! That's vegetarian food you idiots! Give me that with my pancakes!!!

The ONLY problem I have eating (even in pork obsessed lithuania) is (as someone mentioned above) when very hungry and the only choice is chemical potato chips or a meat sandwich from a petrol station or something. That sucks. I just hope they have peanuts and a banana.

about kronos' hunting friends: I do indeed think this is the only way to eat meat. The problem is hardly anyone is lucky enough to be able to do that, and if we all did that, the maximum population of the earth would be quite small. So you have to kill humans as well to make that plan work. But in the meantime, go ahead, fuck the supermarket.

And another one for jonny... my choice has no impact? Er.... my choice reduces meat sales. I don't know how to put that more simply to you.
I have a friend who has also cut out red meat after seeing me eat no meat every day without dying. UK meat sales are down. More and more Lithuanians are going veg, especially the pretty girls. My example has an impact. Small maybe, but hey, i am really not into the idea of paying thousands to a corrupt lobbyist so that they can go to a corrupt parliament and try to stop the meat industry mafia. Not gonna work. Simply don't buy, and they will produce something else. Maybe a chain of vegan restaurants.

Gradually, we are all going to go veg, and get back to the "natural" system of only eating meat occasionally, and paying much much more to have it produced properly. Meat is not healthy if you eat it at every meal in the place of a variety of vegetables.

Climate change and population pressure is going to force us to cut it out anyway, not to mention the amount of oil it takes to produce one cow. put solar panels on them!!!

^I'd have to say that I can't really protest or disagree with your critique. In fact, I think it makes this post entertaining tp see that it inspired some quality insults from the choggster. Maybe I'll find an actual good recipe for eggplant parm to sift after this goofiness. I don't really cook any Italian dishes, so I'll take your word on the fact that this is an uninspired recipe. Fair enough. Needs more fresh herbs!

Critique????
Pathetic Comedy.
This geek may have natural birth-control in his genetics, and he must have read the eternal bachelor's remedial kitchen chemistry book if he thinks this amounts to eggplant parmesan.

Let's begin with his cookware.
Absolute shit. Finding any teflon cookware in someone's kitchen is a sure sign they know dick about anything culinary-Cast, stainless, copper, depending....try some Bourgeat or Ruffoni, not Cooksgreat™.

Uggghh....the prep of the eggplant, eggplant with a buncha dark, hardened pulp orlots of dark seeds will be foul, remove some of the stuff before slamming it into egg and crumb, dipshitz.

So you think some Italian breadcrumb will be just fine...plop that tasteless eggplant into tasteless egg mixture and minimally seasoned breadcrumbs from a box, into some tasteless crappy-ass oil, and slap some Ragu and tasteless Mozzerella onnit, bobs yer fuckin' uncle??Yer tastebuds have been frikkin' abused all you life, why not just make a PB&J and wash it down with some moo-juice.

No wonder the stickman here is so sickly pale and uninspiringly witless.

No olive oil, no fresh Parmesan, basil, no is there even a sauce worthy of the dish I could go on and on ad nauseum, of how little this resembles egplant parm, and how much less this guy knows the first thing about preparing anything short of meals accessed by way of opening a tin or tearing the lid from a carton-

upvote to insure this gets published( i would hate to have this diatribe lost in the discard pile)-then we can talk about what to feed geeks.

Glad to see you have an adventurous spirit, MG. Do you remember what was in the bento that you found so offensive? Was it animal, mineral or vegetable?

Japanese food falls into several categories. I'll list them starting with the most common/popular, to the highest cuisine styles.

1. Street food, including yakisoba, tako yaki (octopus in batter balls) and okonomi yaki (Cabbage pancakes), modan yaki, tai yaki (fish-shaped cakes filled with red beans) etc

2. Street-style bento/bowl food, including rice with seaweed and grilled salmon, chicken kara-age, gyudon (beef bowls) etc

3. Izakaya food (pub food), which is a bit like tapas, in that it's small plates of all kinds of interesting yummies, fried and otherwise. My favourite is grilled eggplant in soy sauce

4. Ramen noodle shops can range from the hole-in-the wall to more expensive restaurants, but are usually the kind of food you grab on-the-run, which is why Japanese love to slurp their ramen as fast as they can.

5. Chinese food, which is appropriated to the Japanese palate, like gyoza (fried dumplings), haru maki (spring rolls), cha han, mabo dofu (chili with tofu) etc

6. Pizza restaurants are very popular. You can sample very Japanese style pizzas, that have kim-chi (pickled cabbage) or kamaboko (fish cakes) on them. Some pasta restaurants can be quite classy, usually because they have a European trained chef.

7. Kateika which is home-cooked food, including grilled fish, like salmon and mackeral, rice, miso soup, nabe yaki (hot pots) vegie and rice dishes like gomoku gohan, curry rice, omu rice (a kind of omelette) etc


8. All-you-can-eat restaurants sell food like shabu shabu and suki yaki and are very popular, usually offer all-you-can drink as well.

9. Sushi, including sashimi and all the varieties of sushi. Some sushi places are VERY expensive.

10. Soba restaurants specialise in all kinds of traditional noodle dishes and can be quite revered for their particular style.

11. Kaiseki Ryori is high cuisine, serving some of the foods you would find in osechi ryori and include the food served at a ryokan (Inn), like clear soups with rare mountain vegies, sashimi and delicacies in seafood. We were teated to some kaiseki ryori last time we visited friends in Japan and my favourite was tiny slices of hard butter in between slivers of dried persimmon. It was delicious!

I've probably left some out, but there you have it. Even after you've lived in Japan for some time, it can be quite difficult to become comfortable with some of the high-end stuff, unless you have an absolute love of seafood in its simplest form, because the flavour is usually very subtle.

I can't believe plastiquemonkey is the only person so far to point out how far removed this kind of "food" is from actual Italian cuisine. That shit is garbage. It doesn't help that their portion sizes are absolutely outrageous. But the truth is, olive oil is good for you. Eating cheese after a meal is good for digestion and for your teeth.

Honestly, I am completely in agreement with most of this video, with the exception of calling this kind of food "Italian". Where's choggie, he knows what I'm talking about. Some roasted red peppers marinated in olive oil and raw garlic. A nice Pasta di Aglio e Olio con Pepperoncino. Some pickled eggplant. Some fresh buffalo mozzarella with anchovies and bread.

That stuff is totally american bullshit. When you make your lasagna with bechamel (originally known as Salsa Colla), fresh tomatos, eggplant and ricotta, I want you to portion that sucker up reasonably, then count the calories and get back to me.

Ragh