What are you searching for?

I haven’t done a ’search terms’ roundup in a while, so I thought we’d take another look at what y’all are looking for.

As usual, people wanna know as much as they can about Anthony Bourdain.  But I’m also happy to report that Michael Ruhlman has been getting a lot of action.   In fact, there were several searches for “Anthony Bourdain Michael Ruhlman”.   The food world’s Odd Couple perhaps?

I’m not sure what can be found on my blog that would bring a search for “pictures of shriveled up women” here.  But it did. Same goes for “so little time porn”.  Eh?

I’m not the only one interested in Gabrielle Hamilton and the possibility of a new book from here.  Several of you are searching for her.

We’re still not sure what we’re allowed to take on planes, and people are searching for answers to that question daily.

One person has searched for “kasha soup”.  I don’t have any recipes for it.  I’m not even partial to it.  But both my parents like to add a kasha knish to their chicken soup.  Try it.

Pineapple sage recipes continue to elude us.

One person has searched for “mojito mix + Target”.  I’d say don’t bother.  Not the best bucket of frozen beverage I’ve ever had.

I really hope that all of you who are searching for popcorn stuffing for turkey don’t try the recipe.  Really – find another stuffing recipe.

To finish up this roundup, I’m happy to say many of you are searching for cholent, happy cholent, hamim, chicken cholent, beef cholent and the best cholent recipes.  I hope that means people are actually out there trying their own pots of cholent.  Let us know how it goes.

No matter what brings you here, I hope you enjoy the time you spend browsing my blog.   Thanks for stopping by.

Holey Cow – Seriously, you can reach right in.

I was driving into the city on Sunday evening when a story on the CBC caught my attention.  Apparently, at the Brandon Livestock Expo (in Brandon, Manitoba) a dairy cow named Darth was on display.  A look through the local paper found an article on Saturday about Darth. (I assume you need to be a subscriber to read this.)

Now, there’s nothing unusual about a cow being on display at a livestock expo (I assume, having never been to one).  But Darth here is a special cow.  Unlike most cows that I’ve seen (I’ve seen many) Darth has a hole in his side.  Now, don’t be silly, the hole isn’t open – he’s not bleeding out.  In fact, there’s a dandy rubber plug that they use to close the hole. 

You see, Darth is used for research.  They’ve cut this hole out of his skin and rumen (the first of the cow’s four stomachs) and use the plug to keep it closed.  Now of course, this was all done for the sake of research.  It allows researchers to keep an eye (literally) on Darth’s digestion.  They can stick their hands into the cow’s stomach to pull out samples and test them.  It also allows them to add different nutrients.  I guess the goal is to find the best level of nutrients and determine the best diets for all other cows.

But did Darth really have to be on display?  Did they have to allow children to stick their arms into his stomach?  They were showing Darth off for educational purposes – but I wonder if it was really necessary.   Apparently Darth is perfectly comfortable with the hole in his side.  He shows no signs of discomfort.  But it makes me uncomfortable. 

These holes (cannulas) have been around for over a hundred years – but they’re something that I, and I think many people, have never heard of.  It just seems a little … ‘out there’.  This is one experiment that I don’t think kids need to be getting there arms into.