tides and Twain. food and flame.

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Drunk On Biology For St. Patrick’s Day

Have you ever wondered what would happen if Louis Pasteur joined The Clancy Brothers? Or if The Chieftains were more nerdy and less talented? Well, wonder no longer!

I wrote this song about the science of beer last year and the folks at The Salt asked me to dust it off in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day.

In a vaguely Irish style, the song salutes that hero of beer production, the yeast Saccharomyces cervevisiae, and explains the biochemistry of inebriation.

On Sunday morning, you may well be cursing ethanol’s effect on vasopressin and glycogen, but for now, I hope you enjoy this song with a cool pint. Sláinte! -Adam Cole

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Escarole, Cinderella Of The Chicories
As plants go, the chicories are a confusing family. There’s “common chicory,” the roadside weed and cheap substitute for coffee. There’s “true endive,” which includes frisee and escarole. There’s “leaf chicory,” which includes radicchio, and, just to make things extra screwy, Belgian endive, which we sometimes just call “endive.”
Whatever you call them, there’s one thing all the chicories have in common, and that is their bitterness. The most aggressive is frisee, which when young and pale lends a pleasant “bite” to your salad mix. But let it grow too long into its frilled, dressy adulthood, and it becomes bad-tempered and formidable, like a vegetable Miss Havisham. You might as well stuff your mouth with dandelions. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) -T. Susan Chang

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Escarole, Cinderella Of The Chicories

As plants go, the chicories are a confusing family. There’s “common chicory,” the roadside weed and cheap substitute for coffee. There’s “true endive,” which includes frisee and escarole. There’s “leaf chicory,” which includes radicchio, and, just to make things extra screwy, Belgian endive, which we sometimes just call “endive.”

Whatever you call them, there’s one thing all the chicories have in common, and that is their bitterness. The most aggressive is frisee, which when young and pale lends a pleasant “bite” to your salad mix. But let it grow too long into its frilled, dressy adulthood, and it becomes bad-tempered and formidable, like a vegetable Miss Havisham. You might as well stuff your mouth with dandelions. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) -T. Susan Chang

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On dueling grand pianos, Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon and drummer Sean Carey work through stripped-down versions of ”Hinnom, TX,” “Wash.,” and “Beth/Rest” from Bon Iver, “Babys” from the Blood Bank EP, and the single “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”

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thrillist:

So much better than Sweet Tea.

I would drink this all day long !

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We wanted to play our music, but we were told that we couldn’t play. We had to do a collaboration with someone else. And we just felt like it was such a large stage. We’re getting nominated for this record that we made… and all of a sudden we were being asked to play music that had nothing to do with that. We kind of said ‘fuck you’ a little bit and they sort of acted like they wanted us to play, but I don’t think they wanted us to play.

Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon on why his band is not performing at the Grammys. (via pitchfork)

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