I’m departing from my usual paean to good food, well grown, well prepared, enjoyed and fully shared, to discuss something that is eating up my mind. If you are averse to anything bordering on the political, please feel free to scroll down to a more friendly section. This section is about gun control.
Certainly agree with you about gun control. We as a country have really lost whatever good sense we used to have over this issue. And up until the last thirty or so years, there was some common sense but Scalia put paid to that with Heller in 2008. If someone can point out just where in the sacred Second it mentions an individual's right to own what ever weapon makes him feel manly, I'll forever hold my peace.
Just don't get me started on a woman's right to choose.
All that said - thanks for more great recipes - fish on the menu for tonight (after lunch w/Jane Chatfield and her daughter).
Brava, Nancy! I could not agree with you more about the gun control and the spinach with olive oil. It is such a wonderful country. When did it get so stupid!
Am with you 100 percent on guns and gun control. I have often said that if I ever win a lottery for millions, which I won't, I would buy up loads of AR-15's and either turn them into police or bring them to a foundry and ask for them to be melted down. My naivete is showing here! There is absolutely no need for these evil weapons to be on the market for anyone to buy. I too have European friends who ask " what is wrong with your country?" And as for olive oil? My love of it is endless and bottomless.
I love the US, but am so shocked by what’s going on there with not only guns but abortion rights, that I am reticent to go back. The news out of South Carolina today concerning abortions is so unfair to women that I will never return to that beautiful State where I vacationed for years. My dad even owned a place there. But no longer. The last time I was there I met a man who seemed nice enough but then spewed the most racist comments I ever heard. No thanks.
p.s. lovely stuff on swordfish fishing off Sicily - never knew about the fishing-boats, they sound spectacular. And I really like the discussive recipe...much more appropriate to reaction-cooking.
Damn right and well said! I now battle the fear--not so irrational--that at some point a family member and/or me will experience a mass shotting. Rather me than the unspeakble heartache. How horrible is that!? Plus I now have a great recipe tyo try on my fish phobic husband!
Gun-control in the UK is very strict: you can only get a license for a sporting gun - shotgun or stalking rifle for game, feathered or furred - and you have to keep 'em under a lock-and-key in a steel cabinet. It'd be pretty hard to get a gun-licence if you live in a city, and if the license holder moves house, or is no longer on the planet, the license is immediately revoked (the police arrive within a day or two and remove the guns - I have direct experience!).
We moved to Europe from California last year and (lack of) gun control was not an insignificant factor in our final decision to do so. The last two times I have been back to California a high-end steakhouse in Palo Alto had the front windows shot out the night before and they hadn't caught the shooter yet, but we sat, facing the entry and boarded up windows in absolute awe (and terror) of how things were back to normal at this place of business where they were instructed not to talk about the incident; a block from another restaurant in Southern California they discovered the body of someone in his car who had perpetrated a mass shooting a few days earlier. Two words: Executive Order. President Biden needs to invoke this immediately.
Certainly agree with you about gun control. We as a country have really lost whatever good sense we used to have over this issue. And up until the last thirty or so years, there was some common sense but Scalia put paid to that with Heller in 2008. If someone can point out just where in the sacred Second it mentions an individual's right to own what ever weapon makes him feel manly, I'll forever hold my peace.
Just don't get me started on a woman's right to choose.
All that said - thanks for more great recipes - fish on the menu for tonight (after lunch w/Jane Chatfield and her daughter).
Brava, Nancy! I could not agree with you more about the gun control and the spinach with olive oil. It is such a wonderful country. When did it get so stupid!
Am with you 100 percent on guns and gun control. I have often said that if I ever win a lottery for millions, which I won't, I would buy up loads of AR-15's and either turn them into police or bring them to a foundry and ask for them to be melted down. My naivete is showing here! There is absolutely no need for these evil weapons to be on the market for anyone to buy. I too have European friends who ask " what is wrong with your country?" And as for olive oil? My love of it is endless and bottomless.
I love the US, but am so shocked by what’s going on there with not only guns but abortion rights, that I am reticent to go back. The news out of South Carolina today concerning abortions is so unfair to women that I will never return to that beautiful State where I vacationed for years. My dad even owned a place there. But no longer. The last time I was there I met a man who seemed nice enough but then spewed the most racist comments I ever heard. No thanks.
p.s. lovely stuff on swordfish fishing off Sicily - never knew about the fishing-boats, they sound spectacular. And I really like the discussive recipe...much more appropriate to reaction-cooking.
Damn right and well said! I now battle the fear--not so irrational--that at some point a family member and/or me will experience a mass shotting. Rather me than the unspeakble heartache. How horrible is that!? Plus I now have a great recipe tyo try on my fish phobic husband!
Hairstylists need a license. None of this makes sense. Thanks for your post.
Gun-control in the UK is very strict: you can only get a license for a sporting gun - shotgun or stalking rifle for game, feathered or furred - and you have to keep 'em under a lock-and-key in a steel cabinet. It'd be pretty hard to get a gun-licence if you live in a city, and if the license holder moves house, or is no longer on the planet, the license is immediately revoked (the police arrive within a day or two and remove the guns - I have direct experience!).
Excellent column, Nancy — on all three subjects. Putting swordfish from Graffam’s on my shopping list!
We moved to Europe from California last year and (lack of) gun control was not an insignificant factor in our final decision to do so. The last two times I have been back to California a high-end steakhouse in Palo Alto had the front windows shot out the night before and they hadn't caught the shooter yet, but we sat, facing the entry and boarded up windows in absolute awe (and terror) of how things were back to normal at this place of business where they were instructed not to talk about the incident; a block from another restaurant in Southern California they discovered the body of someone in his car who had perpetrated a mass shooting a few days earlier. Two words: Executive Order. President Biden needs to invoke this immediately.
I've given up trying to understand or hope for change in home country. And am glad I don't live there most of the time...