Even Keeled

Something doesn’t seem right here.  The newspapers are all reporting that there will be a corn shortage soon, potentially causing an increase in prices and a corrosponding rise in general agricultural goods (meat, dairy, etc) that rely on corn based products for feed.  But what doesn’t make sense is the claim farmers planted LESS corn (down 8% from last year) in the face of rising demand (due to ethanol, more exports).  Reducing corn crops is a good thing, I think corn is evil, but shouldn’t the impact of GM crops increase yield with a decreasing acreage consumption? Very cornfusing….

Every Friday we have Pizza.   Living in California, this means every Friday we are frustrated there is “no good” Pizza and settle for 1 of 3 options….Amici’s which claims to be the best Pizza west of New York, a local place that has decent crust but overloads the cheese, or I roll my own.   I prefer making my own, but this requires ~2 hours prep/cooking time rendering impractical.

Meanwhile, in New York, citizens of Gotham can get wonderful, mouth watering Pizza anytime.  If Spitzer really wanted to save his career and fix a true injustice of epic proportions, he’d move to San Francisco and open a pizzeria. 

My next endeavor very well may be an “authentic-as-you-can-get-in-California-thin-New-York-style-Pizza” place.  I already have the name: Home Slice.  I’ll start with four toppings; 1) Cheese 2) Peperoni 3) Sausage 4) Mushroom.  That’s it.  You want organic free range goat cheese, quail egg and shade grown fennel?  Too fucking bad.   (I can pretty much guarantee a surly east coast attitude from the management).

I have some good ideas to help defray the operational costs as well as marketing cross-overs.  Ingredients will be sourced locally and fresh.  Nothing hipster about making it fresh, just gotta keep it real.  I’m sure the margins suck, but people said the same thing about coffee shops 4 years ago.  The renaissance in cafes has overturned that notion and put Starbucks on their heels.  Let the revolution continue…Viva La Pizza!

I had a difficult time falling asleep Sunday night.  Long weekend, lots of things on my mind, etc.  Then I woke up this morning and read that a Seattle based fishing boat sank in the Bering Sea.  Four people dead, thankfully >40 rescued.  The Discovery Channel’s Deadliest Catch makes fishing in AK seem wild and renegade, but ultimately safe.  The first part is true, the safe part, not so much.