friday fractal iv

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Correlation does not equal causation. But since abandoning refined carbohydrates I’ve developed a passion for brassicas, the more lightly cooked the better.

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1 jayprich on Jan 11th, 2009 said:

I like the way you brought out the character of this leaf, glowing stem to dark, shiny and almost moist looking wrinkled fringes.
To me though Savoy Cabbage is the Lucy Pinder of brassicae, luscious and attractive in youth but not the most talented of celebrity vegetables … then again I’d eat anything with a bit of butter. My wife is Turkish so uses a lot of unusual greens in salads, al dente in plain olive oil or with a reduced tomato and onion sauce, often sprinkled with some crushed dried chili pepper.

By association some links to photos of Kale
Nice whorl but dull photo: http://www.leighcourtfarm.org.uk/page6/page14/page14.html
(butterflypsyche on flickr) scroll to “purple ruffles” http://flickr.com/search/?q=kale&w=29923350@N05

Anyway you took a nice photo, particularly the lighting, well done.
2 welshcathy on Jan 12th, 2009 said:

I *love* savoy cabbage too – and recently discovered this amazing recipe – which should fit in with your low carb regime …

http://orangette.blogspot.com/2008/11/out-of-love.html

Not al dente at all .. but totally gorgeous!
3 knackeredhack on Jan 13th, 2009 said:

jayprich

Oooh er Missus.

I must pay tribute to my creative team, Messrs Point and Shoot.

I like the Turkish way of lightly treating greens too. Thanks for introducing us to those online kale resources.

welshcathy

duly bookmarked as well. Thanks.

Tim
4 Simon Fellows on Jan 29th, 2009 said:

Tim hiya..Assume you know the work of Mark Buchanan..not the theologian !

HNY to you and yrs BTW.
Funnily enough one the fattest(best) meals i ever had was at the Savoy Cabbage in CapStaad with me Mam who was visiting.
Due to exchange rate the meal literally cost us 20 quid and we had the full gubbins.Super duper.

ref Arse De Vany… suppose the grand irony is that his approach despite all his rhetoric to the contrary is the same as all the other stuff that been out for eons.Drs Eades, Konners work,Steffanson, right back to Banting, Savarin et al.
All his lines about weightlifting technology are pure gibberish;he says nothing that is new at all.

Suppose the thing that i find silly and woefully unnecessary and massively cringeworthy is the way that Art grandly exemplifies himself as being a wonderful example of the preaching he suggests, or used to, he isn’t preaching !
Kinda smacks of a late teenager who can’t stop self aggrandizement.
Great pity really as his message would have even more gravitas if he wasn’t so intent on “I AM NESS” although as per above its got little originality despite him claiming otherwise.
Kind of also shows that even with the best of nutrition one doesn’t develop qualities that we in the West (but seriously maybe not in America) associate with graceful and wisdom-infused ageing.
And the way Senor YardApple and Taleb (i know he guards this but can he really only be 48..he looks at least middle 50’s if not older ?) Nassim Nic seem to deify him reads as well…… the cringe-o-meter is off again…very odd but we humans are an odd bunch of course !

So whilst blowing smoke assuredly up yr arse i wish to thankyou for not doing that with Senor Arse.

All good things to you and yours.

Sinc.

Simon

P.S. and if anyone thinks i’m being unfair please refer to how h-g cultures would never ever allow a hunter to become ‘too big for his boots’ Not that i’ll make a jot of difference !
5 knackeredhack on Jan 30th, 2009 said:

Simon,

Thanks for bringing some diversity to the blog. I guess that’s healthy. The broad church and all that. I plead the “bounded rationality” amendment on Buchanan, and apologise if you have mentioned before.

Having just finished Taubes, it is striking how much information has been lost over the years, and so its rediscovery, repackaging, updating and reinterpretation is inevitable. Again the more diverse the population expressing this information, the better, because it needs to reach as many different audiences and interest levels as possible. I think we all believe that this is important for an informed debate about health.

Tim

PS. I think it was you that suggested sprats some while back. It took me a while to get round to that, but they do seem an excellent and credit-crunch friendly source of efas. The cat likes them too.