Steak in Argentina

I can’t help but love steaks. Regular readers know about recent attempts at perfecting the rib eye in a pan. Well, a blogger named Teahouse was smart enough to take some photographs of the various steaks she’d eaten in restaurants in Argentina. (If you’re a vegetarian, think twice before visiting. If you’re a vegetarian and a wine lover, maybe check out Napa instead.)

Argentine Steak

Argentine Steak

All that steak consumption in Argentina is still healthier than if I were to eat the same amount here in the United States, since the beef there is grass-fed. No grain-fed troughs or poopy lagoons for those steers to wade in! But regardless of the steak quality, she indeed gets hit with The Itis:

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Quizno’s Free Sub Sandwich

Another free food opportunity. This time, Quizno’s is giving away up to 1 million coupons for people that add themselves to their marketing database. Don’t put in a fake email, as you need to access that inbox to confirm a link.

Quiznos free subs

Quiznos free subs

The website’s under some heavy load once you hit the submit button – be patient and wait. It should come through. (There are 2 submit buttons – the first one to hand over your email, then from within the email, you click a link that takes you to a coupon popup window, which takes forever to load up the coupon for you to print. A lot of effort, but a sub sandwich is better value IMHO than 3 plain pancakes!

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Obesity And…The Joy of Cooking?

GrubGirl did a bad bad thing last week. She finally started reading “The Omnivore’s Dilemma.” Yes, she had read Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle“, and “Fast Food Nation,” and undaunted, she kept cooking those ribeye steaks on the stovetop. (Heck, they weren’t those terrible ground beef patties.)

Her eyes are being a bit further opened and she’s wondering what percentage of her is literally corn-fed.

We’ll save the gory details of the Omnivore’s Dilemma for another post (and, so, far, The Jungle’s probably got the highest ick factor), but we noticed over at the Food Politics blog that Marion Nestle has a document for download where one has analyzed the increasing serving size in the classic cookbook, “The Joy of Cooking.”

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IHOP Free Pancakes! February 24, 2009

GrubGirl is amazed by the number of free food being offered by restaurants lately. We usually don’t just focus on freebies, but this month, we can’t help it!

Pancakes (Photo by jsc)

Pancakes (Photo by jsc)

On Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2009, from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., IHOP (aka International House of Pancakes) is celebrating National Pancake Day. This means that if you drop by a local IHOP, you can get a short stack (3) of buttermilk pancakes. Those are the most basic plain ones, on top of which you can drizzle a ton of syrup, and spread a bunch of unhealthy butter on top.

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