Miller[Coors] v. Anheuser-Busch DukeOut. Round . . . Two?

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This is worth coming out of hiberation for. Jeremiah McWilliams, the fabbo Lager Heads guy for the St. Louis-Post Dispatch, notes an interview with the CEO at MillerCoors. Here's the money quote:

“We are writing beer history, and this is a trip,” Kiely told Sterrett. “This is a game that will play out over the next 25 years in the beer business, and I will be watching this from my rocking chair.”

Hey! What I been sayin' all along! Although I hope it won't take 25 years, if only because I'd like to know how it comes out. If history is any guide, however, it'll be over with in about five years.

Gone Fishin' . . . For Facts and Words

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I took most of last week off because The Baby was here visiting (with his mama and daddy), which necessitated much cooking (because, yes, I do cook) and ga-ga-goo-ing, etc. No surprise, I got almost no work done. And now must make up for that fact.

So --- blogging will run slow for a week or so. Ya know: Until I get sufficiently annoyed about something rant about it in another five-part saga.

Another Take on "Most People Don't Cook"

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This is worth noting: Tom Philpott, who blogs about (politically correct) food at Grist.org (it's an exceptionally bug-ridden site, so you may or may not be able to access it) more or less agrees with me about the lunacy of the Pollan essay about cooking. And he notes that Julia Child would have, too. Apparently he recently heard a 1989 interview with Child (replayed on Fresh Air) in which Child said:

I grew up in the teens and ‘20s, when most people had—middle class people—had maids or someone to help.”

Philpott notes that Child

reveals that her mother cooked seldom, and then only two dishes: Welsh rabbit (a kind of cheese sandwich) and baking-soda biscuits. As for herself, “I didn’t do any cooking then at all.

So --- there you have it. For what it's worth.