By Chef Jim Gray
Kitchen Guy: Lamb: The Perfect Meat
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When I learned to cook, the first meat I tackled – even before ground beef – was lamb. In fact, the first full “gourmet” meal I cooked was for my then future wife and to this day we call it, “The Seduction Dinner.”
Treat your lamb right and you will be rewarded with outstanding taste, tenderness and an unforgettable meal. You’ll find lamb in so many different cuisines of the world that the variety of meals you can make is almost endless.
Commentary: Like I Was Saying ...
Infighting Under the GOP’s ‘Big Tent’
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During the opening reception at the Montana Republican convention last week, party chairman Erik Iverson called for unity. With continued infighting over which ideological direction his party is heading, it’s a lofty goal and one that he must approach delicately.
How Republicans fare in the November elections may depend upon Iverson’s ability to appease different factions of his own party while alienating as few of them as possible.
Guest Column: Dave Hadden
BP Shouldn’t Complain About “Barriers to Access”
London’s The Guardian newspaper (June 11, 2004) gave extensive ink to the words of Tony Hayward, CEO of BP-Global. This is the same BP-Global that intends to develop coal bed methane (CBM) just north of the U.S.-Canada border at the Flathead/Elk River divide near Fernie, B.C. Out of self-interest, we should pay attention to what Mr. Hayward has to say.
I had the opportunity to meet Mr. Hayward in London at the BP annual shareholder meeting in April while representing the Flathead Coalition. While Mr. Hayward is an undoubtedly brilliant man, we needn’t take everything he says as the gospel truth, or that what’s good for Mr. Hayward (BP) might be good for us downstream of one of his projects.
Lurching from one near disaster to another ...
Warren Miller: Is There Global Cooling in Your Future?
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Al Gore narrated a movie, and for doing so got an Academy Award and a Nobel Peace Prize. From his global warming platform an entire worldwide industry has sprung up. Tens of thousands of jobs have been created to paint the world green. What about painting the ocean blue?
Since the oceans cover more than 70 percent of the planet their health is much more important to mankind than we realize.
Class Continues
Wilderness 101: Multiple Use and Sustained Yield
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Welcome back, class. Let’s dig out that copy of the Multiple Use Sustained Yield Act of 1960 (MUSYA) you saved in your computer from last time, specifically MUSYA Section 4(b): “‘Sustained yield of the several products and services’ means the achievement and maintenance in perpetuity of a high level annual or regular periodic output of the various renewable resources of the national forests without impairment of the productivity of the land.”
[read more]By Chef Jim Gray
In Praise of Peanut Butter
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I once freaked out a food writer for a major metropolitan newspaper by including peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on my “last meal on death row” menu. My answer to this macabre question became the stuff of legend in that city because of my reputation for preparing high-end, very pricey meals.
According to my mother, peanut butter and jelly is about the only thing I ate until I was 14 years old (along with a packaged snack called Tasty-Kake Butterscotch Krimpets, mass-produced at the Tasty-Baking Company in Philadelphia).
