Chelsea Chef Makes Cheese Made from Breast Milk
www.myfoxny.com | BY LUKE FUNK | 09 Mar 2010
MYFOXNY.COM – A chef at a trendy Chelsea bistro has produced cheese made from his wife’s breast milk.
The New York Post reported Tuesday that he had been offering it to customers.
In a phone interview on Good Day New York, chef Daniel Angerer said he is not actually serving it in the restaurant. This might be due to the fact that he admitted that he’s had several calls from the city health department since news of the breast milk cheese came to light.
Daniel Angerer runs Klee Brasserie in Chelsea. He had told a Post reporter that customers started demanding his custom-made “human cheese” after he blogged about his efforts to make it.
“The phone was ringing off the hook,” the chef explained to the paper. “So I prepared a little canape of breast milk cheese with figs and Hungarian pepper.”
The response among those who tried the cheese was described as generally positive, although many customers were too squeamish to attempt it.
New York health department said that even though codes do not explicitly forbid the practice, they advised Angerer to refrain from sharing his wife’s milk.
“The restaurant knows that cheese made from breast milk is not for public consumption, whether sold or given away,” a spokeswoman for the city Department of Health said to the Post
That hasn’t stopped Arabella from posting the recipe on his blog:
My Spouse’s Mommy Milk Cheese Making Experiment
(basic recipe using 8 cups of any milk – yields about ½ pound cheese)
4 cups mother’s milk
1½-teaspoon yogurt (must be active cultured yogurt)
1/8-tablet rennet (buy from supermarket, usually located in pudding section)
1 teaspoon sea salt such as Baline
Well, it’s not as though he ever offered the cheese for sale.
I can certainly see how a family with a chef and a glut of breast milk in the house might come up with such a creation. Perhaps once one becomes comfortable with breast milk, the idea of eating it doesn’t seem quite so odd.
However, this story is still a bit icky for me.
Yum.
Daniel Angerer and wife Lori Mason, a source of milk for Arabella and cheese for him. Image NY Post: Tamara Beckwith
‘Human cheese’ ma: Don’t have a cow!
Says her breast beats the beasts
www.nypost.com | By LACHLAN CARTWRIGHT and JEREMY OLSHAN | March 10, 2010
No matter what the city says, Lori Mason insists the breast milk she supplied her cheese-making husband is more wholesome than anything on the shelves at Whole Foods.
Her milk is 100 percent organic, free range, and foie gras-fed, she told The Post.
“I eat healthier than your average cow and I’m not pumped full of steroids!” Mason said.
When Mason’s husband, Daniel Angerer, blogged about making some of his wife’s excess breast milk into cheese, customers at his restaurant, Klee Brasserie on Ninth Avenue in Chelsea, began demanding to have a taste.
But as The Post reported yesterday, even though expressed mother’s-milk cheese is not against health codes, city officials strongly advised Angerer to desist.
Death is a sad fact of life. Though I find this story unintentionally hilarious I do have sympathy for Ms. Rivers’ late companion and his family. I have an equal amount of sympathy for Ms. Rivers for enduring what must be one of the worst dates ever. Having your date die is surely a blow to one’s self esteem.
Joan Rivers in an undated photo.
Joan Rivers date dropped dead during dinner at Le Cirque
ny.eater.com | Tuesday, March 2, 2010 | by Amanda
Today, on a particularly amusing episode of the Howard Stern show, Joan Rivers revealed that a man she had been dating for five weeks dropped dead during dinner at Le Cirque seven months ago. Rivers said her date suddenly went quiet, with his eyes wide open, sitting upright on the banquette, and he just died. Jokes that she made about the incident: 1) Her salmon dish was ruined as a result, 2) She paid for the meal by reaching into the dead man’s wallet and handing over his AMEX, 3) At least left a 20% tip even though he didn’t finish his meal, 4) He must’ve kicked the bucket after seeing her in the bright light.
Not the worst place to die right?
His death was not made public at the restaurant. Rivers, the management, and paramedics told patrons that he would be fine so as to not, you know, totally freak them out. Also it should be noted, her date was elderly, so the death was not, as far as she knows, food related.
There are worse places to drop dead. Readers, please put your best jokes about Le Cirque’s deadly prices, its dying breed of patrons, and the like in the comments.
Update: The official comment from Le Cirque: “No one has died at Le Cirque. The crème brulee’s to die for, but that’s about it.”
UPDATE No. 2: The good people at Sirius were kind enough to transcribe the show for us. And yes she eludes to Le Cirque, but is ambiguous about it:
JOAN RIVERS ON THE HOWARD STERN SHOW/SIRIUS XM/March 2, 2010
Condolences to Mary Josephine Ray’s family and friends.
Mary Josephine Ray, nation’s oldest
Mar. 9, 2010 | www.philly.com | Associated Press
WESTMORELAND, N.H. – Mary Josephine Ray, the New Hampshire woman who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died Sunday at age 114 years, 294 days.
Ms. Ray, who died at a nursing home in Westmoreland, was active until about two weeks before her death, her granddaughter Katherine Ray said.
“She just enjoyed life,” Ray said. “She never thought of dying at all. She was planning for her birthday party.”
Even with her recent decline, the granddaughter said, Ms. Ray managed an interview with a reporter last week.
Ms. Ray, born May 17, 1895, was the oldest person in the United States and the second-oldest in the world, according to the Gerontology Research Group. She was also recorded as the oldest person ever to live in New Hampshire.
Farewell Daisey Bailey, what amazing changes you must have seen in your life.
On the same day Mrs. Bailey passed, the world’s oldest living person passed on too. The article below had the following quote which is sorta wonderful, “like people who are good at sports, they’re good at living a long time.”
Daisey Bailey of Detroit, world’s oldest black, dies at 114
Nip of bourbon kept supercentenarian going, granddaughter says
Oralandar Brand-Williams / The Detroit News | March 09. 2010
Detroit — Throughout her 114 years of living, Daisy Bailey kept to more than a few habits.
Relatives marveled at her hard work; how she tended a garden and flower bed; and close ties she kept with loved ones.
“She had a beautiful personality,” said her granddaughter, Helen Arnold. “She would give someone her last dime.”
Bailey died of organ failure Sunday at Henry Ford Hospital. The Detroit resident was the fifth oldest person in the world and the oldest living black person as certified by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks people who are 100 years and older.
She would have turned 115 March 30, said her granddaughter Helen Arnold.
Bailey was one of two supercentenarians, or those older than 110, who died Sunday. Mary Josephine Ray, who was certified as the oldest person living in the United States, died at age 114 years, 294 days, at a nursing home in Westmoreland, N.H.
Animal sacrifices don’t just happen in far off places like Nepal or South Africa, they happen in the mainland United States. too.
Sacrificers: It’s religion, not abuse
By STEPHANIE FARR | Philadelphia Daily News | Philly.com | Dec. 14, 2009 | farrs@phillynews.com 215-854-4225
ON NOV. 24 in Katmandu, Nepal, more than 200,000 animals were sacrificed as part of an ancient Hindu ritual celebrated just once every five years.
Half a world away and two weeks prior, on Friday the 13th, in Northeast Philadelphia, five beheaded animals – a cat, three chickens and the skeletal remains of a dog – were found near an Olney bike path in what Pennsylvania SPCA officials said was the 11th case of animal sacrifice documented in the city this year.
PSCPA officials said that they often see more animal sacrifices in the city between November and December because it correlates with “high holidays” celebrated by various groups.
Here’s a list of other animal trainer deaths and incidents that have happened at SEA WORLDs.
Random Seaworld Orlando show image
Killer whales: Other SeaWorld attacks
www.orlandosentinel.com | Feb. 25, 2010
Nov. 29, 2006: Kenneth Peters, SeaWorld San Diego’s most experienced trainer, was dragged to the bottom of a 36-foot-deep pool by a 7,000-pound killer whale named Kasatka during a show at Shamu Stadium. Peters escaped with puncture wounds and a broken foot after he calmed the whale by stroking it.
July 27, 2004: Ky, a killer whale at SeaWorld San Antonio, repeatedly slammed trainer Steve Aibel underwater during a show. Aibel, who was uninjured, had trained Ky for 10 years.
June 12, 1999: Kasatka, a dominant female whale, began acting strangely during a show, grabbed Peters’ leg and attempted to throw him out of the pool at SeaWorld San Diego. Peters was able to get out of the pool.
Nov. 21, 1987: John Sillick fractured his vertebrae, femur and pelvis while riding Corky the whale at SeaWorld San Diego when he was crushed between two whales during a show.
Sept. 30, 1987: Chris Barlow of SeaWorld San Diego was rammed in the stomach by a whale during a show. He was hospitalized but survived.
– Los Angeles Times, The Associated Press, Sentinel research
Pizzeria worker sees Jesus in sauce bucket on first Friday of Lent
thetimes-tribune.com | BY JEREMY G. BURTON, STAFF WRITER | February 25, 2010
When Mary Louise Salerno saw Jesus Christ in a bucket of pizza sauce, her instinct was not to alert the media or even to tell many friends.
She did not want people descending on her family’s West Scranton pizzeria, and she did not want to invite critics or doubters of what she felt was a clear sign.
“To us, it was something special,” Ms. Salerno, 65, of Old Forge said. “God smiled on us that day.”
Imagine the uproar if something bad would have happened.
JFK airport control tower.
JFK tower allowed a kid to direct air traffic
FAA opens probe; child, apparently with supervision, made 5 transmissions
AP | March 3, 2010
NEW YORK – A child apparently directed pilots last month from the air traffic control center at John F. Kennedy Airport, one of the nation’s busiest airports, according to audio clips. The Federal Aviation Administration said Wednesday that it was investigating.
“Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic,” the FAA said in a statement. “This behavior is not acceptable and does not demonstrate the kind of professionalism expected from all FAA employees.” The agency declined to comment beyond the statement.
Recordings from mid-February — during a weeklong winter break for many New York schoolchildren — were posted last month on a Web site for air traffic control-listening aficionados.
At first this story is funny, ha ha ha, duh stupid robbers forgot your kid at the crime scene. Then when you realize this couple brought their child to a violent robbery and the child was supposed to help them and then they left him behind it’s sad, and really fricking messed up.
Good luck kid, good luck. Keep smiling.
Phila. Police Arrest Parents in Bizarre South St. Jewelry Store Heist
KYW.com | Monday, 01 March 2010 12:07PM | by KYW’s Mike DeNardo and John Ostapkovich
Police say they’ve arrested the man and woman who robbed a South Street jewelry store on Saturday and left their four-year-old son behind as they got away.
The couple was arrested together around midnight at a motel in the 7600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard. John Benson, 47, and Sheakia Stubbs, 31, are charged with robbery, child endangerment, and attempted murder.
South Detectives captain Laurence Nodiff (right) says the pair had their four-year-old son with them on Saturday when they grabbed more than a dozen rings worth about $50,000 and ran from the “Platinum and Ice” jewelry store at Sixth and South Streets (see related story).
The store owner chased them until, according to police, Stubbs slashed him in the neck with some sort of sharp object. The couple ran away, leaving the boy behind. The store owner required nearly a dozen stitches
DHS is caring for the boy (right), whom Nodiff says helped track down the suspects:
“The child, as a result of a debriefing by the Special Victims Unit, was able to give us some information to help us locate the parents.”
Police say Benson has 24 prior arrests, and Stubbs three.
The stolen rings have not been recovered. Nodiff says that police are willing to waive a charge of receiving stolen property if the items are turned in.
Thanks to Adam W. for this story. He has a great blog, check it out here.
Not surprisingly tornadoes are being blamed for this unusual happening.
Residents stunned as hundreds of fish fall out of the sky over remote Australian desert town
www.dailymail.co.uk | By Richard Shears | Last updated at 11:41 AM on 02nd March 2010
Residents of a small outback Australian town have been left speechless after fish began falling from the sky.
Hundreds of spangled perch bombarded the 650 residents of Lajamanu, shocking local Christine Balmer, who was walking home when the strange ‘weather’ started.
She said: ‘These fish fell in their hundreds and hundreds all over the place. The locals were running around everywhere picking them up.
‘The fish were all alive when they hit the ground so they would have been alive when they were up there flying around the sky.
‘When I told my family, who live in another part of Australia, about the fish falling from the sky, they thought I’d lost the plot.
‘But no, I haven’t lost my marbles. All I can say is that I’m thankful that it didn’t rain crocodiles!’
Meterologists say the incident was probably caused by a tornado. It is common for tornados to suck up water and fish from rivers and drop them hundreds of miles away.
Mark Kersemakers from the Australian Bureau of Meterology said: ‘Once they get up into the weather system, they are pretty much frozen and, after some time, they are released.’
Lajamanu is located half-way between Darwin and Alice Springs, on the edge of the Tanami Desert.
This is not the first time residents of the small town have experienced fish falling out of the sky.
Resident Les Dillon, 48, said: ‘In the early 1980s I was at the Alice Springs Tavern Hotel and, when I walked out the door, I saw all these little fish, fallen out of the sky.
‘Yes, I had a couple of beers, so none of my friends believed me. I have rung heaps of people to let them know I wasn’t drunk back then. It had really happened!’
What happens when you gather the best male and female athletes from around the world to compete in sports? Apparently tons of fun! Thanks to the foresight and thoughtfulness of event organizers it’s safe fun.
For some reason a Catholic site covered this story with their own special slant which almost, but doesn’t quite, use the word “debauchery.”
Widespread revelry in the streets in addition to wild parties has left Vancouver in dire need of prophylactics. Image from catholic.org
More condoms shipped to Olympics
By Greg Goodsell | 3/1/2010 | Catholic Online
An emergency shipment of condoms was shipped to Vancouver in order to better serve a city in the throes of Olympic fervor.
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) – Widespread revelry in the streets in addition to wild parties has left this western Canadian city in dire need of prophylactics.
Health officials in Vancouver have provided 100,000 free condoms to the roughly 7,000 athletes and officials at the Games, about 14 condoms per person. In the middle of last week, those supplies were running dangerously low. The Canadian Foundation for AIDS research rose to the occasion to make sure no one went without.
Three large boxes of about 8,500 condoms each were flown to the Olympic Village
Free condoms were first distributed at the athletic event at the Barcelona 1992 Games, and this appears to be the first time that a shortage has struck the Games.
According to a health Web site, lambskin condoms, or natural condoms do not protect the user from sexually transmitted diseases. The pores are seen as being too large to protect against the small particles that causes some STDs. In addition, latex condoms protect against only certain types of STDs
