Not fud, but perfect

And sad, too. 

Off the rails

The front-page story on grease thefts from restaurants started out like a spoof but wound up evoking a literary nightmare. Even for a country unabashedly addicted to oil, this is junkie behavior. At least no one today can mock the Peruvians for reaping the guano rewards. Their dirty work produces food rather than sustaining the illusion we can keep driving until the Apocalypse. And their resource happens to be renewable -- it's been piling up really high at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Grey Poupon? Really?

Judging by the Guardian’s piece on chefs’ larder essentials, I’m in the wrong line of work. At least three of them mentioned Maldon salt, but those lucky Brits pay only two pounds for a box. We get socked for eight bucks. I wanna be the middleman with the 100 percent markup. Do they fly it over first class?