This is pretty cool. Do you get surprised every time, or what? How come chayote is wacky? Kinda ugly, but it don't taste like much . . .
Well, my wife signed up for it so it's a complete and utter surprise to me. If I were on the mailing list it wouldn't be. Chayote may be old hat for you, but I grew up in a place without, like, sushi. When an Olive Garden opened up two hours away it had a 2-month wait list. Suffice it to say it's not an ingredient I've ever sought out, so being given a path to understanding has been nice. We did catfish, too. I was traumatized by catfish as a youth because my family does an annual catfish fry. The problem being they catch their catfish from Elephant Butte Reservoir where the catfish mostly feed on sewage and corpses. As it turns out, they ain't half bad with a proper diet!
. . . I . . . see your point. I'm pretty sure that this is just what catfish eat. My ex wouldn't eat catfish for the same exact reason, but personally I am a catfish fan and will eat it 8/10 times when given the opportunity. I have this thing about eating eggs though. Corpse-eating fish are no problem, turtles are no problem, snakes are no problem, congealed blood is no problem, boiled, chopped goat testicles were . . . doable but man oh man, eggs are the grossest thing ever to me. Everyone's got their thing I guess.When an Olive Garden opened up two hours away it had a 2-month wait list.
The problem being they catch their catfish from Elephant Butte Reservoir where the catfish mostly feed on sewage and corpses.
I read the free sample and didn't go further, primarily 'cuz it was full price. As I read it, I wished it were written by Mary Roach.
It was a while ago. I attempted to read "Stiff." I didn't finish I'm pretty sure. I think my opinion of Roach suffered as I had recently read both Complications and possibly also Better by Atul Gawande and I found I enjoyed his writing style much more, while bth authors were discussing similar subject matter (bodies, medicine). The book seemed "pop"-py to me. It was not as bad as Gladwell (I read "Blink" and hated it) but I remember feeling as if the subject could have been covered better by others.
See, and I haven't read Stiff and don't want to. Packing for Mars is all I got - and it's very poppy. But it's an "everything you wanted to know about space travel but were afraid to ask" manual that spends a chapter and a half on the toilet on the space station and "poppy" is the way to go.
Complications is (somewhat sadly) definitely better than Better. There was supposed to be a third but it looks like that never came out. The Checklist Manifesto I found valuable, but it expands beyond the realm of medicine - so in that way very different from better. I would pick either Checklist or Complications, I am wondering if you would prefer Checklist because it's broader - but Complications is very good.