Crab Moon Rising
who the hell ordered all this news
Hey there, you gorgeous Broiler Heads. While we’ve been busy working on our 5th book (details coming sooooon) and planning our Halloween costumes, a shitton of food and environmental news has come and gone. So this week we’re gonna sit down and digest this chaos, you know, as a family.
Olivia Wilde’s secret salad dressing has somehow caused more drama than anyone could have imagined. Breakups are tough and people do… irrational things. We’re not gonna weigh in on the drama, it seems like everyone needs some therapy, but the actual recipe is absurdly basic. If there’s any take away from this story, you should learn one recipe and master that shit to the point your ex is throwing themself under your car.
A head of lettuce has outlasted Britain’s newest PM Liz Truss. A YouTube stream was set up with the vegetable after The Economist predicted Truss’s tenure as Prime Minister to be “roughly the shelf life of a head of lettuce”. The comments were the spiciest thing the UK has cooked up in years.
Earth’s wildlife populations have plummeted by approximately 70% in just under 50 years. The World Wildlife Fund and Zoological Society of London published their biennial Living Planet Report with heartbreaking findings. Since the 1970’s we’ve lost 70% of wildlife on our planet. Reread that as many times as you need to. Scientists agree that we’re living through a 6th mass extinction and one of the greatest losses of life on our planet since the dinosaurs AND it’s all our fault. As we continue to clear cut forests, consume resources beyond the limits of the planet, fail to heed the words of experts, and pollute every single place on an industrial scale, these numbers will only get worse. As Tanya Steele, chief executive at the WWF said:
“Despite the science, the catastrophic projections, the impassioned speeches and promises, the burning forests, submerged countries, record temperatures and displaced millions, world leaders continue to sit back and watch our world burn in front of our eyes[.] The climate and nature crises, their fates entwined, are not some faraway threat our grandchildren will solve with still-to-be-discovered technology.”
We need to get serious about the health of our planet because this shit does not require our belief or attention to become a reality.
The New York Times ran a great piece about atypical anorexia and how our culture’s obsession with people’s bodies and the value we assign them based on their size keeps finding new ways to kill us. Remember, there is no right way to have a body. We all need to work on how we speak to ourselves and each other when it comes to weight and our relationship with food. It doesn’t have to be like this.
Alaska canceled snow crab season this year for the first time in history after the crab population fell by 84%, or about 1 billion crabs. Unsurprisingly, warming waters from climate collapse are to blame. So maybe, avoid seafood for like… the rest of your life?
Grenades are washing up on Oregon beaches and police aren’t sure where they came from. Cool, not stressful at all.
What a clusterfuck. Tomorrow our recipe club paid-subscribers are getting a recipe for a loaf of bread so fucking delicious that you might wanna just change into sweatpants as you make it. Now is the time to make our Fall Challah.
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Same time next week, k? Kay.
Michelle and Matt
Wowza already working on the next book! That’s quicker than previously, no?