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Josh played Jesse Aaron in the movie Bridge to Terabithia. (tv.com)
Josh played Shane in the movie Firehouse Dog. (tv.com)
Josh played Carl Munro in the movie RV. (tv.com)
Josh played Gabe in the movie Little Manhattan. (tv.com)
Josh voiced Markl in the movie Howl's Moving Castle. (tv.com)
Josh voiced Robin in the movie, American Splendor. (tv.com)
Josh has admitted to having a crush on Angelina Jolie, as well as Jamie Lynn Spears (none other than Britney's kid sister) (tv.com)
Josh has a boxer dog named Diesel, who reportedly travels around with him a lot. (tv.com)
Josh has indicated that he would love to work with actor Jake Gyllenhaal someday. Josh has said that he admires how Jake chooses to participate in movies that hold personal significance, not necessarily the "blockbuster" types. That is the kind of career that Josh himself wants to have--selecting good movies and being passionate about every character he plays. (tv.com)
Although Josh doesn't watch a significant amount of TV, some of his favorite shows include Family Guy and The Andy Milonakis Show. (tv.com)
Josh competes in triathlons as a hobby, which correlates directly with his character's running talents in the film Bridge to Terabithia. (tv.com)
Josh received the Young Artists Award for "Leading Young Actor" after a strong performance in the film Zathura. Josh has indicated that filming this movie was the best experience of his life. (tv.com)
One scene in "Bridge to Terabithia" required Josh's character Jess to angrily push his 6-year-old little sister May Belle to the ground (played by young actress Bailee Madison). Naturally, most scenes have to be filmed more than once, and it is said that Josh felt so badly about having to push Bailee, he always helped her up and hugged her in-between takes. (tv.com)
It has been said that while filming Bridge to Terabithia, Josh wasn't too thrilled about letting his co-star AnnaSophia Robb win one of the footraces, which was necessary for a specific scene in the movie. Josh is said to be very competitive, and he often challenged AnnaSophia to races during filming. (tv.com)
Josh says singer JoJo got him interested in hip-hop music. (tv.com)
One of Josh's favorite Christmas gifts ever was Guitar Hero, which he got for Christmas of 2006. (tv.com)
He is about to star with Brendan Fraser in the upcoming film "Journey 3D" (tv.com)
Josh will play Alex in the movie, Journey 3-D. (tv.com)
Josh has a brother, Connor Hutcherson, who appeared with Josh in Little Manhattan and had a few other small roles. According to Josh, however, Connor does not want to pursue acting at all; he only appeared in the movies he did because he was with his big brother, and it happened to work out. According to Josh, Connor is very smart and "wants to be a rocket scientist or something cool like that." (tv.com)
Josh has said that when he watches movies, one of his biggest pet peeves is if a character is jerked awake suddenly, and they are automatically wide awake within seconds. There was a scene in Bridge to Terabithia where Josh's character was awakened this way by his father, and because Josh wanted it to be authentic, he deliberately squinted his eyes in such a way that made the situation convincing. Many of Josh's film directors have talked about how he works with the seemingly minor things, like this, to add an extra flair of reality to his characters. (tv.com)
Josh has said that he developed a strong friendship with Bridge to Terabithia co-star AnnaSophia Robb, and he has also indicated that she is one of his closest celebrity friends. "We still talk on the phone a few times a week," he said in July 2007, nearly two years after filming the movie, and Bridge to Terabithia director Gabor Csupo has agreed that these two kids got along extremely well on set. (tv.com)
Josh, who is an avid sports fan, loves the Cincinnati Bengals and credits Rudi Johnson as his favorite player. (tv.com)
While reading the original book and script for Bridge to Terabithia, Josh was initially against being a part of the movie, because he didn't like how the Jess character treated his younger sister May Belle throughout most of the story. Josh felt that the character was being so cruel to a little girl that hadn't even done anything wrong, and this really put Josh off at first. Film director Gabor Csupo said the same thing about Josh, and he expressed that it was a testimony to Josh's talent as an actor that he was able to pull off such an intense scene, even though he didn't necessarily agree with the principle of it. (tv.com)
In the 2007 film Bridge to Terabithia, there is one scene where Josh's character Jess says to younger sister May Belle, "Don't you dare follow us, or I'll tell Alexandra that you still s*ck your thumb and sleep with Mr. Blankie!" This line actually really upset young actress Bailee Madison (May Belle), who, at the time, still s*cked her thumb and slept with a baby blanket, and she thought that Josh was making fun of her. Josh wasn't aware of this until film producer Lauren Levine told him in the middle of a commentary for the DVD, and Josh felt really bad about it. (tv.com)
Josh has likened his relationship with his younger brother Connor to the one between Walter and Danny in his film Zathura. Just like his character in that movie, Josh says he and Connor fight all the time, but they are also very close. (tv.com)
Josh has indicated that he hates traveling long distances by airplane or car, but he has certainly had to do a lot of it for his acting career. For instance, a few days after he arrived in New Zealand to film Bridge to Terabithia, he had to fly back to Toronto, Canada for some last-minute scenes for his movie RV, which hadn't come out in theaters yet. "I don't sleep too good on planes, so I get very bored," he says. "I read scripts or watch movies while I'm just sitting there." (tv.com)
Josh says that filming Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D was the most physically grueling experience in his acting life, but he enjoyed all the additional stunt work that they got to do. (tv.com)
At the age of 14, Josh has already worked with an impressive number of big-name actors. His on-screen parents have included Cynthia Nixon, Robin Williams, Robert Duvall, Tim Robbins and Robert Patrick, and he has also played the younger brother of Will Ferrell. (tv.com)
In previous interviews, Josh has said that his role as Jess Aarons in Bridge to Terabithia "required more acting than his other movies," because the character was so much different from him, and complex. (tv.com)
Josh has said that if he weren't an actor, he would love to be a football player. "Not very creative, but lots of fun!" he has said. (tv.com)
In Little Manhattan, Josh, who played Gabe had a romantic relationship with, Charlie Ray, who played Rosemary Telesco in the movie. (tv.com)
One of the producers of Bridge to Terabithia refers to Josh with terms like "the home-run kid" and "the can't miss kid," going on to say that he is "true to his character in every frame of the movie." (tv.com)
Josh broke his elbow at 6 or 7 years old, while he was on some monkey bars. Ironically, that's the same summer that he learned how to swim, and he did it with the cast on. (tv.com)
Josh attended New Haven Elementary School. (tv.com)
Josh's favorite superhero is Batman. (tv.com)
Josh used to have blanket called "Yellow Blankie," which he carried around with him everywhere. (tv.com)
Some of Josh's favorite brands of clothing are Modern Amusement and Ed Hardy. (tv.com)
Josh's friends call him "J Hutch." (tv.com)
Before he was an actor, Josh dabbled in the rapping business, but he has said that he'll "stick to acting." (tv.com)
Josh has referred to young actress Bailee Madison, who is seven years younger than him, as "the most adorable little kid on the face on the Earth." In previous interviews, Josh has also called his Bridge to Terabithia co-star the little sister he doesn't have. "I love her so much; I honestly don't think I've met anyone like her in my whole life," Josh has raved. (tv.com)
Josh has acknowledged that he feels he is a very bad singer, and he was embarrassed on the few occasions that he had to sing in the movie Bridge to Terabithia (although he was always singing with a group of other kids). (tv.com)
In the audio commentary for Bridge to Terabithia, Josh expressed his apologies for making the in-school racing scene at the beginning of the film take so long to film. Everyone was trying to work out the timing so AnnaSophia Robb's character Leslie could win the race as scripted, but Josh is so competitive, he kept winning race after race, so it took longer to get the necessary footage. (tv.com)
It's been said that while filming Little Manhattan, Josh--who was 10 years old at the time--was much more nervous about doing his first on-screen kiss than actress Charlie Ray (who played his love interest) was. When Josh asked the director why he was so nervous and Charlie wasn't, the director smiled and shot Josh with a line that was used often throughout the movie: "Well, it's because girls mature faster than boys!" (tv.com)
On June 24, 2007, five days after Josh's film Bridge to Terabithia debuted on DVD, it came in at #1 for DVD sales that week. It maintained a high spot for the following week also, at #2. (tv.com)
Josh's mother Michelle, who originally worked as an emergency response trainer for Delta Airlines, quit the job to homeschool her son and manage his career. Josh's father Chris is a management analyst for the U.S. Environment Protection Agency in Clifton, and one of the reasons the Hutchersons chose not to move out to Hollywood is so that Chris could maintain his career. (tv.com)
In the commentary that Josh did with co-star AnnaSophia Robb, and film producer Lauren Levine for the film Bridge to Terabithia, he acknowledged that he was not too thrilled with his wardrobe for the movie. Some scenes called for his character to walk around with a sweatshirt tied around his waist, which Josh says made him look like he was wearing a kilt. Josh was also wary about the crown he had to wear in the final scene. "I looked like some sort of monk or something," he has said. (tv.com)
Josh is a little over one year older than actress AnnaSophia Robb, his friend and co-star from the film Bridge to Terabithia. (tv.com)
Josh has a girlfriend named Shannon Wada, an aspiring actress who is currently doing some modeling work. It is reported that she often travels with him for his film premieres and other events. Josh does not speak much about this part of his personal life, but on his official website, he has said that he and Shannon are the same age, she is homeschooled, and they met through a friend of Josh's (not on a movie set) (tv.com)
Well, Jonah is an awesome kid. I have a little brother, so I`m used to hanging out with someone younger than me and how that all works. He was so much fun; it was actually hard to yell at him sometimes in the movie, because he`s such a cool kid
about Josh`s emotional crying scene with Robert Patrick in the film) This scene is, again, amazing because I think we shot it only twice, and both times, those tears coming out of Joshua`s eyes......they`re real teardrops. It`s not like we had to physically put them in there with the drop help, or CGI, or anything. These are his real tears. He really melted into this performance so deeply, that even his mom, on the set, was amazed by his performance. And she was saying, "I just don`t know how he can do this. What was he thinking about?" He did, you know.....such an amazing emotional job on it
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The Bears needed this game more than anything. They lost to a Vikings team that has nothing to look forward to except the offseason. The Bears needed a win to keep pace with the Lions and stay in the mix in the playoff run. Now they have to run the table the rest of the season and hope another team ahead of them loses a game or two just for a prayer to get into the playoffs.
This week's game ball goes to Alshon Jeffery. Jeffery caught 12 passes for 249 yards, breaking his franchise record of 218 yards set earlier this season against the Saints. You would think defensive coordinators have received the memo about Jeffery. While all the defensive attention is going to Brandon Marshall, Jeffery sees single coverage.
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- The Pistons won, but they didn't look particularly impressive. With Rip Hamilton, Rasheed Wallance and Antonio McDyess out, just getting the win was most important.
- Detroit extended its season-long win streak to six.
- Rodney Stuckey played great, scoring 38 points and adding seven assists and four rebounds. Still, I'm not quite ready to annoint him. He had four turnovers and he settled for jumpers a little too often.
- Tayshaun Prince was really the glue that held the Pistons together tonight. He shot 8-of-12, grabbed 10 rebounds and had three blocks. He also had just two turnovers while playing 43 minutes.
- Sixteen of Allen Iverson's 23 points came in the second half. After the game, he said Hamilton told him the Kings were collapsing strong when he drove, so he should look for more jumpers. Iverson did, and that's why he was so effective in the second half.
- Amir Johnson showed a huge burst of energy early, but faded as the game went on. He ended up with 10 points, 14 rebounds and three blocks. His hustle play definitely has a place on this team. But his points came on putbacks and alley-oops. He's a long ways from creating his own points.
- Jason Maxiell had just two points in 22 minutes, but he showed good defensive instincts. He finished with three blocks and three steals. I'm withholding judgement on his offensive production, though. I'd like to see if he can score as efficiently as last year if he gets more consistent minutes.
- Detroit held the Kings to 33.7 percent shooting. The Pistons' defense has looked better of late, but Sacremento's shooting percentage was due more to their lack of talent than Detroit's defense tonight.
- Stuckey did a nice job of distributing when he controlled the ball, but the Pistons didn't do a good job of sharing the ball as a team. Stuckey had more assists (seven) than the rest of the team combined (six).
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"A Carrot!" - from Sputh Park episode 6x15 "The Biggest Douche in the universe!
"The Stapler" (2002)
I used construction paper as an ode to "South Park" where this parody came from!
Junk (2005) - Starring Tom Jane from "Arrested Development"
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The Fatties: Fart 2 (2009)
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The Tauron Line (37 BCH) … From "Battlestar Galactica: The Plan" … I imagine that Baxter Sarno's from Caprica had a famous father that directed it.
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2012 may not have been a grand year for Spartan football, but there have been some outstanding players on the football team. However, one shouldn't overlook the other Michigan State teams when compiling a list of the players to watch from this past year. Here are the top ten players whose names everyone should know (in no particular order).
1. Le'Veon Bell – Junior – Football
This guy is a beast. I mean that in the best possible way. Just watch him as he carries guys down the field on his back as he strides along carrying that ball down the field. Bell had his best season yet in 2012, coming in second for total yards carried in a single season at MSU – 1,648. He rushed 266 yards against the Minnesota Golden Gophers and scored the winning touchdown in the last game of the season. Bell has already begun receiving top honors. In 2012, he was voted Most Valuable Player (Governor's Award) by his teammates; he won first-team All-Big Ten Selection by both coaches and media and first-team All-Big Ten Pick by ESPN.com; he was one of ten semi-finalists for the Doak Walker Award; and he received the CFPA Elite Running Back Trophy.
He's also won the following awards
- Honorable mention All-Big Ten selection coaches and media
- Named to the CollegeFootballNews.com All-Sophomore Team (honorable mention)
- Received the team's Most Outstanding Underclass Back Award for offense
- Big Ten All-Freshman honors from Rivals.com and ESPN.com
- Was added mid-season to the Doak Walker Award watch list
Gary Harris is already having a banner first-year despite a shoulder injury early in the season. He's been named Big Ten's Freshman of the week twice now for high-scoring games. Harris was a powerhouse during his high school years as well. Awards he won during his time as a high school senior include:
- 2012 McDonald's All-American
- 2012 Jordan Brand Classic Game invitee
- 2012 Indianapolis Star Indiana Mr. Basketball winner
- 2012 Indiana Gatorade Player of the Year
- 2012 Indiana All-Star with MVP Honors
- 2012 Parade Magazine All-American
4. Denzel Valentine – Freshman – Men's Basketball
- 2012 Lansing State Journal Player of the Year
- 2012 Associated Press Class B Player of the Year
- 2012 Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News Honoree
- Finished Second in the Hal Schram Mr. Basketball Award


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Here's an interesting article on fraudulent use of Google Adwords to plant key loggers on client systems. It's an example of another crafty way that the criminal community is finding to exploit ambiguity about who you're connecting to. In this case the criminals were passing through a site that installed a key logger on the way to the real site. But it's equally easy to imagine setting up a bona fide phishing site or an entirely fake online store/bank/loan site/trading site to do the same thing.
Enter authenticated identity, AKA Extended Validation. Now when you click on an Adword that appears to be from a business you know, you have better methods of verifying that it's truly that business. And if you get scammed by a site buying Adwords, you will know who to sue. Either way, it's a big win for the end user of Adwords.
It's also a big win for Google, of course. With estimates of the paid search industry falling in the tens of billions of US dollars by 2010, Google and its peers have a lot to lose if consumers stop trusting the safety of these paid links. I hope to see the leading search engines instituting some kind of trusted site mechanism whereby sites with authenticated identities would be indicated as such in the interface, for both paid and natural search. Technologically it's quite feasible. We just need for the search engines to take authentic identity as seriously as their audience -- the people who click on links and go to Web sites -- does.


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Luise sent in scans of the new issue of German Vanity Fair with Scarlett on the cover. While the cover shot is old, the pictures inside are new, taken at the Berlin Film Festival. Scarlett looks amazing! If anyone if able to translate the interview, please do get in touch. I've also added a couple of new stills from Boleyn Girl. Thanks to Sandra for some of them!
Last but not least, I'd like to give a plugging to some of my friends' new sites dedicated to Scarlett's co-stars: Andy's Javier Bardem fansite, Javier Bardem Online, on the Vicky Cristina Barcelona star and fresh Oscar winner (congrats to Javier!) and Filip's Eric Bana fansite, Eric Bana Fan, dedicated to the king of Boleyn Girl.
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"A political campaign is more than a traveling debate society," Slate's Jack Shafer wrote last year.
So let's get right to it: The Bay State Banner's Yawu Miller and the Boston Phoenix's David Bernstein cast a critical eye on the reports that are coming into the state Office of Campaign and Political Finance.
The top five with the most cash on hand, according to Bernstein: John Connolly, Stephen Murphy, Felix Arroyo, Ayanna Pressley, and Andrew Kenneally.
Miller writes: "Pressley aside, only two other black candidates have raised more than $20,000. Patrick administration official Tito Jackson has raised $24,130. Egobudike Ezedi, on leave from his job heading the Roxbury YMCA, has raised $25,427 (not quite the $45,000 he told the Banner he had raised in a May interview)."
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I have been influenced by some of the greatest strength coaches in our industry and I have also pushed back against them with the might of both my hands, not because of an intrinsic need for rebellion or antiauthoritarian tendencies, but because their systems were preventing me from winning. Allow me to explain. I was […]CONTINUE READING
I remember sitting at a tikki bar with my best friend in the Summer of '08 having a conversation about lifting. He said, "do you think you could beat Jon Cole if he were still competing?" Without a second thought I said, "absolutely, the best geared lifters would be the best raw lifters, we just […]CONTINUE READING
Dan Green's article West of Westside caused a big commotion in the training community. One of his points went largely misunderstood. Dan advocates an inward movement of the knees during the squat which is in stark contrast to many coaches technical cueing… 9. Knees out and back while squatting Where I'd always squatted with a […]CONTINUE READING
Crossfit in America is one of the most controversial topics in the strength and conditioning world. I have to admit that five years ago I was one of their biggest critics. I watched the same videos that everyone else has seen showing terrible technique and shear absurdities. Over the last five years I have met […]CONTINUE READING
As virtually any lifter who's lived in the internet era knows… There's only one side: Westside! The training split, the max effort and speed work, the bands and chains, Chucks. Louie Simmons has created an internet following of Biblical proportions. His lifters have conquered record after record in federation after federation. And via the internet, […]CONTINUE READING
I spent the majority of my career at Westside Barbell. Everyone there was strong had been training for years. Recently, I joined a powerlifting gym in Maine where most lifters are pretty novice. As I walked in, I noticed everyone was wearing the latest squat suits and briefs. I also noticed 405 on the monolift. […]CONTINUE READING
Reclaiming "real" strength is about getting back to what got you in the gym in the first place. It wasn't about this % for x amount of sets. It was about adding pounds to a lift, and looking better, feeling better, and being able to prove it. Real strength isn't something you need any equipment, […]CONTINUE READING
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In the sequel to The Iron Duke in the Iron Seas steampunk romance series by Meljean Brook, Heart of Steel sees the exotic and dangerous captain Yasmeen on an action packed treasure hunt across Morocco.
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I wonder how things work, up there in the promised land,
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is beef becoming tasteless?
go look at old pot roast or brisket recipes, say from the 50's and 60's.
now look at newer ones.
the older ones probably have: beef, salt + pepper, onions and some water.
the new ones: beef + 30 other things.
Why is this? People developing little kiddie tastes (everything must be sweet)? The proliferation of the crockpot creating washed out tasting meat that needs the extra things to cover for ruining the beef? Or cheapskate ranchers feeding cows junk and selling tasteless meat?
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50 years ago, my mother made her fabulous pot roast with red wine, stewed tomatoes, onions, etc. I've never had a pot roast in my life as depressing as what you describe. :-)
I make mine with red wine, stock, tomatoes and fresh herbs and veggies. Savory, not sweet. I use only grass fed and finished meat at home, so no lack of flavor.
I can't speak for the world but when I think of what was available to me, spice and seasoning wise, combined with an environment lacking any kind of real ethnic diversity my tastes have dramatically changed. While there are many simple pleasures I still love (a plain grilled burger, a really good steak) my tastes for chili, stews, pot roasts run more "exotic" for lack of a better word.
My mom was a creative cook and used lots of what was considered "weird" to much of our area. She made lots of Indian food, experimented with Carribean influenced meals, played around with a number Asian cuisines. My dad was a chef and he loved Asian foods, especially szchuan. My friends used to freak seeing a duck or two hanging when my dad just had to have Peking duck.
But all these spices, foods etc were bought from markets 3-4 hours away and were expensive so those meals were special occassion. Our basic everyday meals were meat and potato types. That's what my friends ate too.
My town had no fast food, no Chinese or even Mexican restaurants. The places we did have were mostly seafood, basic American or red sauce Italian. There was no "ethnic" aisles in the 2 grocery stores we had.
As I grew up and moved away I became exposed to more and more flavors. And while I loved my moms NE boiled dinners I absolutely add more than she did. Hers was water, corn beef, carrots and potatoes, cabbage and maybe some peppercorn. Mine has dark beer, corn beef, potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, quarter onions and I either make my own spice bunch or buy a corn beef that has one. I serve with 2-3 different highly flavored mustards.
I have to think if you are looking at cookbooks from 50-60 years ago you have to take into consideration what was available to your "average" home cook and the taste levels of that "average family". It's one of the reason that cookbooks like the JOC continued to change/update through out the years.
***all written from an American perspective, assuming you were talking about American cook books.
re: foodieX2
I was going to respond with similar sentiments, but you said it much more eloquently than I would have!
It is probably a combination of things, beginning first and foremost on the farm. I'm no expert by ANY stretch, but if beef is like, say, flowers like sweetpeas and apples, many growers gravitate to hybrids, not the old-fashioned varieties. I suspect the same might be true with beef: they use breeds that produce the maximum amount of beef quickly and cheaply. Steriods, antibiotics, feed, and "happiness" of the cattle come into play as well - not to mention aging (dry vs. wet vs. little aging at all). Most supermarkets don't hang their meat for very long at all.
We are extremely fortunate to live in an area that raises old English breeds, free to roam and eat meadow grass, fresh hay and lots of treats from the villagers (apples, carrots, and the such). They aren't taken miles away before slaughter (no stress) and hung for a minimum of 6-8 weeks.
I also suspect the fresh produce used to prepare dishes our mums and dads used things that were in seaon and local. Try a home-grown late summer tomato vs store-bought in the middle of winter and you'll see what I mean; it makes a huge difference.
Finally, recipes with a zillion ingredients might be to suit the modern notion that more is better; the cook is putting more effort into the dish to make it more "special", etc. It helps sell cookbooks.
re: Journey
Journey, you are also fortunate to live where supermarkets even GET carcasses to hang, or even sides. Only a few, more high-end markets in most parts of the US do any real butchering at all, but receive all their meat as either cryovac'd primal cuts or in some cases prepackaged ready-to-cook steaks, chops or other cuts. Some of these may be tasty enough to satisfy the home cook who gets some meat when his vegetarian wife is elsewhere (ahem!), but finding properly aged meat of good quality takes extra legwork and money.
Tastes have changed. The food we eat is influenced by immigration to our countries and our travel to other countries.
But to respond to the question posed in the title of the OP, it may depend on where you are in the world. Certainly where I am, if we go back 50 years, most folk would be buying their meat from the local butcher. The cattle would have been raised in tradtitional ways, not slaughtered too young and hung for a decent period of time to allow the flavour to develop. Nowadays, many of us in the First World buy our meat from supermarkets. They have their own strategy which, generally speaking, means animals are not hung for a long period - means they can sell a weightier piece of meat as it won't have dried out in the maturing process.
I buy my beef direct from the farm, via the internet. The cattle are raised organically and the carcass is hung for 21 days. I will happily cook a pot roast of it with nothing more than onions, seasoning and stock.
I think that everyone has been right here, starting with Harters' lamenting the increased industrialization of our meat supply and proceeding through how the animals themselves have been further commodified - artificially bulked up, dosed with antibiotics, slaughtered young - and then on to our increased interest in novel flavors. But I strongly suspect that the greatest loss of flavor is the process that ends with the slab of meat wrapped in plastic in the supermarket. Although I know for a fact that I can blame much of the loss of perceived flavor on my own failing sensors, I taste a sufficient number of superior pieces of meat now and then to know that when a burger tastes mostly of the condiments and garnishes it's not just me.
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I get whole sub primals, sometimes wet aged 28 days in the bag & sometimes 28 days dry aged hanging on the bone. IMHO, the dry aged is better but if the wet aged is top choice or better it is also very, very good.
My problem is the leaning out of the meat supply. Thats where I think most of the flavor was lost. Then to make matters worse, they inject it with solution which further waters down the flavor.
re: Tom34
Some of the best beef here in SoCal comes from Harris Ranch; although I have major issues with their resistance to any suggestion that there's anything evil about factory farming or treating animals as a simple commodity, they do keep the beef as natural as it can be under the circumstances. Several somewhat upscale markets in the L.A. area carry their meat, which I will occasionally buy while repeating to myself,"They aren't as bad as the other guys." One thing about these markets is that they employ actual butchers who know what they're doing and will happily do it. And then of course there are the "boutique" butcher shops, the newer of which source their animals from smaller farms exclusively.
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I am on the East Coast but have heard very good things about Harris Ranch. They have been very critical (Good Reads) of the leaning / grade changing that took place during the 70's.
A friend in a cutters union at a major supermarket told me they often portion out sub primals w/in 10 days of box date. Thats just to soon.
"Actual butchers" .....Very, very hard work. Kind of went the way of Italian & German stone cutters.
25% more per lb for a great piece of meat is worth every penny when you consider the work & $$ that goes into prepping the whole meal. Preaching to the quire on Chow Hound as most folks on this site know the importance of quality products.
"go look at old pot roast or brisket recipes, say from the 50's and 60's.
now look at newer ones.
the older ones probably have: beef, salt + pepper, onions and some water.
the new ones: beef + 30 other things."
I don't agree with this at all. I don't have them here in front me right now, but I can go through cookbooks I have from the 50s and 60s and find beef recipes with more than just "beef, salt + pepper, onions and some water." Maybe not "30 other things" but then none of the contemporary cookbooks I own have any beef recipes like that either.
re: ttoommyy
And here is evidence to what I posted above.
From Good Housekeeping's Meat Cook Book 1958.
Edited: I just realized it is basically unreadable. Go to this site, click on any of the recipe pages and see what I mean:
re: ttoommyy
Interesting! A lot more non vegetable or herb flavorings than I use now!
re: ttoommyy
awesome. I especially love the restraint in "pinch of celery seeds".
Now I'm going to have to dig through my mom's old cookbooks (circa 1968) to look at pot roasts.
re: ttoommyy
I have my mother's Good Housekeeping cookbook from 1952. Its instructions for pot roasting are to brown the meat, put it into the pot with water, salt & pepper and simmer it. Any vegetables or potatoes that are to accompany the meat are to go in for the last 30 minutes fo cooking.
re: Harters
Sounds like "Good Housekeeping" might've been an oxymoron.
re: Harters
No onion. Spartan indeed.
I'm cooking a deckle this way tonight. I always liked my mom's cooked like this (had cloves of garlic poked into the meat rather than onions) and it was probably a bottom round -- the worst cut of beef.
If I posted a steak recipe with all sorts of nonsense dumped on it, there would be an uproar about ruining the taste of the meat. Yet a pot roast is sad and nasty with salt and pepper?
I think I've answered my own question. It is completely psychosomatic. Unless of course my dinner is revolting. . . then I'll have to rerun the recipe without the crockpot.
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"If I posted a steak recipe with all sorts of nonsense dumped on it, there would be an uproar about ruining the taste of the meat. Yet a pot roast is sad and nasty with salt and pepper?"
I don't think the first part is true, since some steaks are frequently marinated, served with truffle butter, etc. The most tender and flavorful steaks are typically best prepared with little done to them, true.
But pot roast isn't analogous, it's a cut that requires a long braise (or smoking) to become tender, and it loses so much weight by losing its juices in the process, that other flavors are required for it to be its best.
Marbled ribeye, not so much. Filet is often served with sauces because its leanness means not much flavor.
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I disagree. A good chuck roast, slow-braised for hours, has fantastic flavor enhanced only by salt and pepper.
Not to say that other ingredients would detract or distract.. not at all. But I don't think a good cut of meat NEEDS lots of flavoring ingredients in order to shine.
Which goes to the original question; I do think that modern meats (beef in particular) suffer from blandness. I might agree that industrial-produced meats, versus meats produced 50-60 years ago, highly benefit from other flavors in order to be at their best.
re: Harters
I guess a lot changed in 6 years then!
I think the industrialization of food production is partly to blame, but I also think palates have gotten more sophisticated as more exotic ingredients have become easily available and affordable, too. Plain old salt and pepper doesn't really lend much flavor to anything, whether it's veggies or meat.
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Wow, I use plain old salt and pepper on a lot of good, fresh meats and veggies, often alone.
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I like my Italian herb blends, chili powder, herbs d provence, thyme. A variety of vinegars. Different kinds of oil (walnut, sesame, olive, etc.). Dijon mustard. Citrus. Soy sauce.
Salt and pepper is fine for a steak, but I think most other things are enhanced by judicious use of other ingredients. My opinion, that's all.
That said, I think there are few things tastier than a good grassfed steak.
re: Heatherb
I use all of those two. That doesn't change the fact that good old salt and pepper do a great deal to enhance the flavors of simply prepared veggies or meats, too. The fresher and better the food, the more a simple prep and seasoning allows it to shine.
Which is not to say that other flavor profiles aren't fun, too!
re: Heatherb
When I was in culinary school and we worked with meats, one of my wisest teachers always told us: "You can slather it with all kinds of stuff when you cook at home. in this kitchen: you will learn to make it taste good using just salt and pepper. Until you can do that, you aren't treating the meat correctly."
(not to argue that anyone isn't treating their meat correctly.. *insert immature chuckle here*)
No doubt beef is becoming more tasteless mainly due to increased use of chemicals and dumbed down feed. Just do a taste test between any store bought beef, even angus, and grass fed beef from a small farm. No comparison.
I would guess that the beef has changed - raising techniques, age, diet, breed. And keep in mind that in modern industrial food practices, uniformity is important - if you buy a piece of stewing beef, it should taste the same, regardless of location or date. That tends to wash out variations.
A second thing - my Dad grew up on a small farm in the 40s and 50s. The beef, I image, would have been lovely. But fresh garlic was considered an exotic ingredient. I'd estimate that at least half of the ingredients in one of those modern recipes wouldn't have been available. Seasoning and preparations in general tended to be pretty plain.
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How often did they slaughter cattle on that small farm?
In the days before freezers, I wonder whether fresh beef appeared very often on farm tables.
I wonder how much of it, too, is related to the fact that many (most?) people just don't know how to cook.
I give lessons in basic cooking techniques to young parents at a community center where I live. They are consistently amazed at how their food preferences shift when they learn to treat even previously-reviled foods simply and properly. "So THAT'S what lentils should taste like!" "My mother's broccoli was always mush!" "I've never eaten chicken breast that I actually like before!"
The only seasonings I allow in the first month of classes: salt and pepper. Occasionally garlic.
Most of my students have long been suckers for the "30+ ingredient" recipes because they felt it made them better cooks; meanwhile, all those herbs, spices, and ingredients were covering up the fact that an unseared roast doesn't lend much flavor to the final stock, or improperly-prepared roux will funk up your texture, and the like. "But we dump 9323593593 spices in, so this burger patty must taste better." No... get some good beef (the best you can afford) and learn to properly sear it to bring out its OWN flavor.
"30+ ingredient" recipes only go so far in covering up a lack of technique.
The fun about being an old fahrt such as myself is that you hopefully have a larger variety of experiences to draw on. I grew up on grass fed, corn finished usually prime beef. Lots of marbling. Moved to Pennsylvania and hated the tough, tasteless, and what we assumed were mountain climbing former dairy cows.
While living in Europe, the worst was from Ireland, closely followed by France and Italy. Exceptions were from the Camargue or Florence, but you had to go there to get it.
The best was consistently imported from Tito's Yugoslavia.
Today's beef is made from types best suited to industrial raising and processing. Which suits 98% of the consumers in the US today. In this part of Florida, my butcher has grass fed, usually grain finished local beef. Raised on the flood plains of the St. Johns river and full of drugs and genes from bug resistant breeds. Normal price for choice looking porterhouse is $5.99.
And you have never had high priced tasteless beef unless you lived in the early Seventies and had pink baby beef.
And here is my Grandmother's pot roast recipe from the Forties.
Place 2 inch thick bone and gristle in chuckroast on doubled tin foil.
Sprinkle one packet of Lipton's onion soup on meat.
Add 1 cup of water.
Seal so steam and water do not escape.
Cook for 3 to 4 hours in 300 degree oven.
Serve with boiled potatoes and green beans along with unthickened juices.
re: INDIANRIVERFL
According to USDA data, beef consumption peaked around 1970 at 80 lb per capita. The low was in the 1930s at 35. Now we are around 60.
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Hey, that was my MIL's recipe, too!


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Temporary regulations and proposed regulations issued in May 2009 provided guidance on how to allocate certain prepaid qualified mortgage insurance premiums in order to determine the amount of the prepaid premium that is to be treated as qualified residence interest (and therefore potentially deductible by individual taxpayers).
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Create Better Table Views with Teasers
A quick and dirty way to give table views more meaning is by using teasers. Apple's Mail App shows a numerical indicator of unread emails at the top level, then shows truncated previews of actual messages at the inbox level. Similarly, Messages shows previews of the last message sent before the user drills into the conversation.
Flipping the Teaser Approach on Its Head
While teasers can make basic table views more meaningful, they prioritize navigation over content. Taking the teaser approach and flipping it on its head can result in a content-centric design that provides meaningful contextual navigation to the user. Many apps and e-commerce sites already do this, and it can help create focus on content discovery rather than search.
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You've probably seen this pattern before: take a collection of items, group them into categories, present a limited number of those items in buckets or lists, and provide a link to jump off and view more. There doesn't seem to be a great name for this pattern, some have suggested calling it the egg carton or the showcase, but neither of those terms seem to capture the essence of the jumpoff link's contextual navigation – thus, buckets & jumpoffs.
Twitter uses this approach in its profile view, along with a mix of standard table views. Instead of seeing all of the user's tweets in the profile view, there is a small bucket showing the latest three tweets and a link to view more.
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Feeling a Little Reckless … It Could Be a Parasite.
Rodents who are infected with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii seem to lose their fear of cats, or more specifically, the odor of cats. And since those mice are more likely to be eaten, T. gondii benefits because it reproduces in the guts of cats. It turns out that people infected with the parasite also show personality changes. The CDC estimates that more than 20% of people over age 12 are infected with T. gondii, and the vast majority don't know it. The chemical trick that T.gondii plays on its hosts involves manipulating the concentration of dopamine and hormones in the brain. In people, T.gondii infections seem to correlate with increased risk taking, higher car accident rates,lower conscientiousness and and even schizophrenia.
More at Scientific American.
BBQs v. Diesel 18-Wheelers.
Ever wonder about the plumes of smoke emitted by your barbeque? Scientists at the University of California Riverside did and they conducted an experiment to measure the pollution effects of a typical hamburger barbeque. They estimate that barbecuing a single hamburger produces as many polluting particles as an 18-wheeler diesel truck travelling 143 miles on the freeway. How to limit these particulates will be, to say the least, controversial.
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Building Cleaner Caves to Save the Bats.
The fungal disease known as white nose syndrome has ripped through the hibernating bat population of the East Coast for several years. Because bats eat so many insects, they are a critical link in the ecosystem. The disease so far has no cure, but that doesn't mean there is no point in trying. In Tennessee, where its many caves provide homes to millions of bats, Cory Holliday and the Nature Conservancy built an 80-foot long artificial cave. The theory is that since the artificial cave can be cleaned after each hibernation period, it may be possible to interrupt the 3-year infection cycle that causes mass bat deaths. The scientists will use recorded bat calls to lure the bats to this new cave.
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More Worries as Bird Malaria Moves North.
Birds in the tropical regions carry malaria, but it is now found to be spreading north. Along with a warmer Arctic climate, birds that normally carry malaria are expected to spread it to birds, such as snowy owls, that have never before been confronted with the disease. So far, bird malaria has not been seen north of Fairbanks, Alaska, but with rising Arctic temperatures, it appears to be a matter of time before it reaches the most northerly bird populations.
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Antbirds and the Moveable Tropical Feast.
Antbirds comprise several species of tropical birds that have turned the art of a free lunch into a lifestyle. As described by Natalie Angiers of the New York Times, these birds follow columns of army ants and pick off the various animals that desperately try to escape their path. Grasshoppers, beetles and other delicacies jump out of the way of the ant army's destructive march and the antbirds are there to snatch them up. As is often the case, there are other freeloaders: butterflies follow the antbirds to feed on their droppings. Antbirds are becoming so habituated to this feeding habit that they now qualify as official parasites.
The Incredible Artistry of the Male Pufferfish.
Animals can amaze us, but in this instance the lengths to which one male pufferfish went to attract a mate are simply astounding. Michael Harper of Red Orbit describes the discovery of an elaborate "crop circle" on the ocean floor made by a tiny pufferfish using only his tail fin.
Faithful Coyotes.
There are many examples of monogamous animals, but scientists were surprised at the record of the coyotes living in the urban areas of Chicago. Scientists at Ohio State University not only tracked the coyotes they studied, but actually conducted DNA tests matching pups with their presumed fathers. The result is that Chicago coyotes seem to stand apart with respect to monogamy. As one researcher put it: "In contrast to studies of other presumably monogamous species that were later found to be cheating, such as arctic foxes and mountain bluebirds, we found incredible loyalty to partners in the study population."
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The vampire squid, reminiscent of Dracula because of its long cloak-like tendrils, has nothing to do with sucking blood. Instead, it serves a much less exotic but clearly more important job. The vampire squid is a virtual garbage disposal for the ocean floor, sucking up everything left behind by other creatures and digesting it. Diving deep beneath the surface and needing only a small fraction of the oxygen that most sea creatures do, the vampire squid mixes it haul of ocean detritus with mucus that it secretes from its suckers.
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Mosquitoes Adapt, With Dire Consequences.
It is estimated that mosquito-proof bed nets have saved countless lives in Africa by preventing mosquito bites that transmit deadly malaria. Mosquitoes are usually active only at night and thus the bed nets have proved a valuable resource for people most at risk for malaria. However, nature adapts and so do mosquitoes. Scientists have discovered a new species of mosquito which has a new DNA type. It also has a new habit: it is active closer to morning hours than its traditional counterpart. So as the odds of survival shift away from the traditional type of mosquito, these late risers are sure to benefit and efforts to stem Africa's malaria problem could take a step or two backward.
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Bees Can Solve Travelling Salesman Problem.
The travelling salesman problem is a standard in mathematics courses because it appears so simple yet requires prodigious amounts of computation. Finding the most efficient route between several cities is, basically, much more difficult than it seems. However, bees seem to have a natural sense for solving this kind of dilemma. Scientists from the University of Sydney, Rothamsted Research in Harpenden, England and Queen Mary University of London set up a five flower pentagon with about 50 meters between flowers. Sans map and without reading a single mathematics textbook, the bees almost immediately eliminated the vast majority of inefficient routes between the flowers.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed certain states' Medicaid program records, focusing on: (1) whether states are using financial arrangements that inflate the federal share of Medicaid program expenditures; (2) various techniques that states use to obtain federal funds for their basic Medicaid and disproportionate share hospital (DSH) programs; and (3) whether states are using their federal matching funds to provide medical services to Medicaid patients.
GAO found that: (1) states have used various financial arrangements to obtain federal Medicaid funds without committing their share of matching funds and to increase the federal share of Medicaid expenditures; (2) some states have used federal funds to finance their Medicaid programs, while other states have redirected their funds into their state treasuries; (3) although recently enacted legislation focuses on limiting states' improper use of federal Medicaid funds, Michigan has taken action to ensure its federal Medicaid funding level in 1995; and (4) the Medicaid program should prohibit states from using illusory financial arrangements so that federal funds can be diverted to those medical facilities providing care.
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Matter: Congress should enact legislation to minimize the likelihood that states can develop illusory financing mechanisms whereby providers return Medicaid payments to the states, thus effectively reducing the states' share of Medicaid funding. This legislation should prohibit Medicaid payments that exceed costs to any government-owned facility.
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The Green Bay Packers selected some defense with their choice in the draft and took HaHa Clinton-Dix to play safety. The team was looking at getting a receiver, but the New Orleans Saints jumped in front of them in order to take a wide receiver that they may have added. The Saints took Brandin Cooks with the selection in front of the Packers.
Instead of adding a weapon on offense, the Packers decided to beef up their defense with their selection.
Clinton-Dix was one of the top safeties available in the draft and he will be a nice player in their secondary. He will be roaming around and looking to make plays all over the field. He made some big things happen in Alabama and he will be looking to make some big things happen on the field with the Packers.
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