For St. Patrick's Day, made corned beef (on sale at Publix) in the pressure cooker. Takes about an hour (vs. three if I'd boiled it). The meat really shrinks -- it's up to 35% brine solution, according to the label. I think I can make three meals out of it, tops. So not cheap but really tasty. Taking some to work tomorrow, along with horseradish.
Watched a new Anthony Bourdain show tonight on Nicaragua. What a disgraceful place (in parts). They have a whole class of dump scavengers in Managua ("churequeros"). (They even scavenge for food, in addition to stuff to recycle, for a pittance.) Tony didn't give President Daniel Ortega (worth $400 million according to Tony) an easy time.
I think, however, some Republicans and Libertarians in this country would have no qualms if we had a dump scavenger class here. (Maybe we already do.) That seems to be what they're pushing for, in their efforts to siphon all the country's wealth up to the already wealthiest people at the expense of everyone else. (See, e.g., drug-pricing post above.) (We're becoming a "third-world" country ourselves, folks.)
One of Tony's meals tonight included an animal called "pelibüey." I'd never heard of it. See here. It's a non-woolly tropical sheep that's raised mainly for meat [pictured].
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