I hear that the venerable and creaky and stuck-in-web-adolescence message board Chowhound has finally modernized. I also hear that there is quite a furor over this modernization. I was really hoping the modernization of Chowhound would take place, once I got wind of its acquisition by C|Net. Because Chowhound’s this here just isn’t how the web wide world works anymore.

Now I can go try and find great places for steak without wanting to stick knives in my eyes.

Dirty steaks on a plate

Doesn’t this look and sound delicious?

NPR : Dinner in the Fireplace

I’d try making it, but my tiny apartment-sized Char-Broil Patio Caddie is all seven ways wrong for it. Especially: “burning down the cord wood (maple, oak and ash) to large embers.”

The recipe, as it is, that rounds out the NPR story gives some really funtamental pointers as well, like using a cooling rack instead of putting your finished steak directly on the plate.

I really need to figure out how to get some, because, I’m not sure I want to go through the rest of life never having tasted steak “like a lustful, illicit encounter in a hotel room.”

Maybe in Vegas?

McSweeneys.Net is a really wonderful site to find funny things to read. I particularly like their reviews of new food (long!). But this one is really good, and fits our theme:

An Open Letter to Omaha Steaks:

Meat is supposed to be manly and strong, but you are acting weak and needy. Please pick yourself up by the flank, brush off those chops, and move on. I promise that I will be in touch should I ever again start salivating over the thought of a piece of your ass, or thigh, or lower rib area.

[ Inspiration credits to: Slashfood ]

Everything will change. I’m getting some concepts worked out for SteakFeed. I want it to look LEAN, yah?

So I clicked photoshop until my fingers don’t work and came up with this, it’s from the same source as the little favicon that you get if you bookmark us.

It’s lean but it’s also rough around the edges. I think i’m not mathematical enough or something to make pixel art.

Would you spend 28 bucks American on a t-shirt?

What if it was a limited edition design? What if it was really cool? What if it was about steak, and hilarious?

A friend of mine we’ll call Mort showed me a link to this T-Shirt website called LaFraise (The Strawberry) which has a 500 item run of this shirt:

Somebody send me twenty eight bucks?