Getting ready to go out, for me, involves many a process. There’s the plucking, the grooming, the showering, the shaving, the full body moisturizing compress. Selecting clothes takes several committees and seventeen models who strut past with different variations until I am completely satisfied. What going out does not involve, however, is ironing. I hate…

I took charge today at our post-PMBR lunch at Tacqueria Del Sol. I said: “Lauren, let’s celebrate being done with the PMBR. Let’s order margaritas.””Nah,” said Lauren, “I have to work on some papers.””Ok,” I said.The waiter came over. “What do you want to drink?” he asked.”Two margaritas,” I said, “frozen, salt.”Lauren laughed. “Ok,” she…

Picture a cake.Let’s say a yellow cake with vanilla icing. The cheap kind that comes in a box; the kind you would sell at the Chess Club bake sale. Picture it strewn with rainbow sprinkles; the large rectangle carved into equitable squares.Now taste it. Do you have the flavor in your mind? The cake with…

Strong opinions abound here at The Amateur Gourmet.I’ve alienated my Atkins-lovers, my cheese eaters, and the Christian Right. And now I’m going to alienate the vegans.Tonight I sat innocently watching TV with Lauren. “Will and Grace” was on. We were decompressing from a full day of bar study and torture. I said: “How ’bout a…

Oh my God. Cicada Cooking video via The Washington Post. You need RealTime to view it… and Valium.

You’re probably as sick of hearing about carbs as I am sick of eating them! But tonight I was in Publix with my digital camera and I began snapping pictures of the low-carb products that seemed to be everywhere. Cereals, drinks, breads, bagels, pills… All stacked in giant displays appealing to the low-carb sensibility. And…

Sixteen very generous people replied to my post requesting the best recipe for a chocolate chip cookie. I went with my friend Katy’s suggestion because (a) it sounded good, and (b) if it came out bad I could blame her.Her suggestion came from Marcel Desaulniers’ cookie cookbook. I do not know who Marcel Desaulnier is…

On one of the websites where my original post was linked, some commenter wrote (and I paraphrase): “I gave up carbs and have never felt better. Carbs make you tired and sickly…now I feel great!”I scoffed at this poster. “Tired and sickly?” What kind of carbs was she eating? Arsenic and old lace on rye?But…

These things change very quickly, but just thought I’d point out that, at present, The Carbohydrate Manifesto is 13th on Popdex : the website popularity index.

Thanks to Vidiot for this rockin’ Carb Aid graphic:[via telescreen.org.]