Marilyn Haggerty's amazing Olive Garden review and the subsequent viral shitstorm

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Is there not an I Love Cooking for you perverts?

I am stealing yr Kale recipe.

http://www.closetcooking.com/2012/02/swiss-chard-pesto.html

Stevie D said that he hates cilantro except in cilantro pesto, which is contrary to what one would expect!

My favourite pesto is a chargrilled aubergine one, and there's also a roasted red pepper one with almonds which I love

Probably going to make a cilantro pesto here this weekend; need to do something with a slew of things in the fridge before New York next week. Which reminds me...

with the boiled egg incident, the egg actually boiled fine, but when i was trying to peel it, it wouldn't peel, and i somehow ripped the egg in half and the whole thing fell in the bin

I just want to say that this happened to me this morning almost exactly, except I had hard cooked two eggs and one was fine so I still had an egg for my lunch, and the one that I muffed up wasn't my last egg, but I definitely thought of lex and I had some pretty hearty LOLs in the kitchen.

And yes, I ran them both under cold water and did all the right things. One was just a real jerk of an egg.

just hit me yesterday that on mh's whirlwind ny tour they made sure to get a shot of her eating a dirty water dog, but I don't think she ever got to gray's papaya? that's a shame.

she apparently died 10 feet from its entrance... crawled the last three blocks but just didn't quite make it

cold

sad end

LOL I don't know what happened in this thread but IMO small town newspapers are a national treasure. I can get pretty immersed in local news if its myopic and small enough -- "big city" news doesn't do it for me. "yeah yeah someone got stabbed on the bus... wait hold on... The courthouse renovations are dangerously overbudget?!"

she reviewed shake shack and le bernardin:

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/232570/

i love that she's switched up absolutely nothing about her writing style despite the knowledge of her suddenly increased audience

her use of the passive voice is really pitch-perferct

Usually when I visit restaurants, there is no effort to show off the kitchen.

:-)

i think the "minnesota nice" phenomenon would drive me insane if i had to move to the midwest. i'd just be like "PLEEEASE just get down to brass tacks and tell me to fuck off already."

i mean, i'm from two very rude coastal cities; i expect the worst, always.

this woman is seriously my favorite person writing about restaurants ever

We took a menu handed out on the sidewalk and stood in line about 20 minutes before we could even get inside. We enjoyed the experience. And actually the burgers were very tasty. They had the good flavor that comes only with a little fat. We are not sure if they contained pink slime that has hit the news waves of late. And we didn’t ask.

love this

i love that she's switched up absolutely nothing about her writing style despite the knowledge of her suddenly increased audience

She could have filed it before OliveGardengate.

"actually"

exactly!

I think she went to NYC specifically because of the OG review.

Why else would Anthony Bourdain have gotten involved?

When, at length, we finished this long, leisurely meal, we talked of walking back to our hotel. Then, we thought twice about it and decided we wanted to ride.

"We were hammered after the flurry of wine pairings."

i feel like being asked if you prefer marilyn haggerty's writing to that of pitchfork reviews reviews should be some kind of litmus test

This story just keeps on giving. Amazing to think it started out as a lame "lol Midwest" internet meme.

i don't want to give too much credit to marilyn hagerty, but it'd be interesting to see attitudinal/contrarian freshman creative-writing students do her kind of writing as an exercise, to see how much restraint they're capable of.

I tried that sausage and parsnip recipe and Ferngarden-Whelkstall is totally fronting about the length of time required to bake a dozen sausages.

"We are not sure if they contained pink slime that has hit the news waves of late."

What does this even mean?

"Pink Slime Terrorizing the Eastern Seaboard" iirc

i think the "minnesota nice" phenomenon would drive me insane if i had to move to the midwest. i'd just be like "PLEEEASE just get down to brass tacks and tell me to fuck off already."

― the kids of boris midney high (get bent), Thursday, March 22, 2012 1:35 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck off :)

thanks!

(much love to midwesterners, including the iowan i've been involved with for nearly five years)

The pink slime is what Jamie Oliver called mechanically separated chicken that goes into nuggets, etc. Probably other meat, too. It looks like bubble gum.

...or something

No, it's leftover beef trimmings that get centrifuged, treated with ammonia, and added to ground beef. Not joking.

the formal term for "pink slime":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boneless_lean_beef_trimmings

wikipedia also gives us MEAT SLURRY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_slurry

which of these tasty products produced by advanced meat recovery systems sounds the most appealing to you?

Sorry, I was wrong.

This is the mechanically separated chicken

http://www.snopes.com/food/graphics/msm.jpg

But the "pink slime" is beef trimmings treated w/ ammonia.

xp

I'm not sure if I'm ready to defend "pink slime" beef, but Jamie Oliver really mischaracterized the ammonia treatment of meat.

sonned by dyao in a finely textured beef.

― Love and Arugula (Trayce), Tuesday, July 6, 2010 12:05 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*urrrp*

this may or may not be a bite of Marilyn Haggerty but I thought it was p funny: http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/columnists/quaffer-scoffer-1-4747805

oh man i think it's legit: http://www.doncasterfreepress.co.uk/lifestyle/columnists/quaffer-scoffer-1-4707498

Tasty Pizza offers a big range of variations on the pizza theme, from classic Margherita to more experimental Turkish variations with donner meat, chilli and bacon.

the earliest Q&S i can find is from this april, a month after haggerty

http://www.epworthbells.co.uk/lifestyle/quaffer-scoffer-1-4459201

Please reassure a USA-ian that "donner meat" isn't human flesh.