It's always bacon. That's what vegetarians miss. Sizzling, fatty, smoky bacon in big, thick salty slices. For some, even the smell proves too rich. For others, it's what keeps them awake at night, curling their firsts to the sky and yelling the meaty equivalent of "Rosebud."
And for some, it's hard to leave behind the world of pig and beef and chicken. That's why there's an entire industry dedicated to producing veggie burgers and tofurkys. The New York Times' Mark Bittman recently accompanied Dutch food writer Janneke Vreugdenhil to see the Vegetarian Butcher - an entire butcher shop dedicated to producing meatlike products sans the meat - at the Hague, Holland.
The piece by Vreugdenhil wonders why we go to such great lengths to turn vegetables into a facsimile of a very different food group. Her piece makes me want to know the same thing. Why do vegetarians seek out faux meat?
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by Nick Spacek
on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:24 AM
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When over 75 percent of tickets are sold online (and that stat is from 2008), the idea of an Internet pre-sale is pretty silly. Still, the ability to snag tickets before websites get overloaded or phone lines get jammed is always a pleasant thing. While Def Leppard with Poison and Lita Ford might not be the hottest ticket, their show at the Sprint Center on Wednesday, June 27, is a tour sure to be full of crazy stage effects. Thus, the closer you are, the better the explosions and flash pots will look. Get your tickets from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. today using this link and entering the promo code 'LOUD.'
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by April Fleming
on Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:04 AM
Over the years, Adam Carolla has done TV (The Man Show, Crank Yankers, a recent stint on Celebrity Apprentice) and radio (Loveline, with Dr. Drew, who seems to be on every TV channel these days). He has also written two books and even made his own independent film, The Hammer. For the past two years, he has been cultivating a Web line to his resume, as the host of The Adam Carolla Show - the "world's most downloaded podcast," according to Guinness.
As if all that weren't enough, the car aficionado has recently been making the rounds on the stand-up circuit. He hits the Uptown in Kansas City this Friday, March 30, and recently joined The Pitch by phone to catch up before the show.
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by Justin Kendall
on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:59 AM
Charles Bates turned 24 on March 9.
The Monday afternoon's homicide victim has been identified as 24-year-old Charles Bates, of KCMO. He is the 26th homicide victim in the city this year.
Bates was shot at 80th and Brooklyn around 4:30 p.m. Monday. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Police say the suspect, described as a black male, was last seen fleeing the area on foot. If you can help them catch him, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.
Bates' 24th birthday was March 9.
After the jump, read the latest homicide analysis. The sad fact now is that Kansas City has seen more killings at this time than in the last four years.
Kansas City will lose a little bit of its perkiness on Friday when the downtown Folgers plant ceases production. Gone will be the distinctive aroma of roasting coffee that has wafted through the business district for more than a century, and gone will be the nearly 200 workers who have come downtown daily to make that happen.
According to a piece in the Kansas City Business Journal, the plant at 701 Broadway is expected to close next month. Parent company J.M. Smuckers announced in March 2010 that it would close the plant, which at the time employed 179 people, and move the production facility to New Orleans.
We may eat with our eyes first, but all too many of us are seeing things first through the lens.
I've accepted the fact that I'm not always a fun dining companion because, on occasion, I'll stop whomever I'm dining alongside and ask if I could take a picture of their food. Even worse, I'll ask them to wait to take a bite while I snap a few pictures.
And while I'm polite, I recognize that it's irritating. Great dishes are like well-made movies - you want to immerse yourself in them for a brief few moments and forget everything else. Someone directly intruding in that moment is the closest that any of us will likely come to knowing what it's like to be with paparazzi. The Guardianwonders about our obsession with documenting what we eat in pictures in order to blast it out to the world via our social-media serving of choice. Is our desire to photograph our plates ruining the simple joy of eating out at a restaurant?
I have two approaches when it comes to cold calls, those targeted attempts to sell me, the homeowner, a set of replacement windows or an alarm system. Usually I lie and say I have a family member in that business. Plan B: Pass the phone to my wife. Neither makes me proud.
"A man called this afternoon and said he'd like to come by and build a garden for us," my wife told me two weeks ago.
"What? How did he know we wanted to build a garden? How did he get our name?" I asked, immediately on guard.
"He just plucked it out of the phone book," she said. "But I trust him."
And so last Thursday, just before 9 a.m., a red pickup with a slurry of dirt and water in the bed and a paper bag of seed packets in the passenger seat pulled into my driveway. A man with a sunburned neck and close-cropped, beginning-to-gray curls came to my door and asked if he could look at my lawn.
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by Nick Spacek
on Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:23 AM
One of the fantastic things about the Web is that a song from a three-year-old album can be made into a video and magically become current news. Such is the case with Lawrence's the Hemorrhoids, whose zombie-laden video above is for the song "Weirdos." Off 2009's Itchin' Fer a Good Time, it's a bloody good time for fans of Queers-influenced pop punk.
A rally to mourn Trayvon Martin was held on the Plaza on Monday, March 26. The rally and candlelight vigil held next to J.C. Nichols Fountain was designed to call attention to the circumstances that led to the slaying of the Florida teen. Click here or on the picture above for photos by Angela C. Bond.
Big Rip Brewing Co. expands the Northland's beer universe
A consultant tells KC that big retail could save Citadel Plaza
Voltaire - the saloon, not the philosopher - opens tonight
WWE's Monday Night Raw returns to Kansas City October 14
Shawn Ratigan and Bishop Robert Finn face two new civil lawsuits
DelHi Soul Food Buffet closes in KCK
Courtney Cole, Greater Kansas City Women's Political Caucus executive director, answers The Pitch's questionnaire
Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper are headed to Cricket Wireless Amphitheater