Two meat-related items, as fresh as today’s papers. First, an actual teaser headline from the front page of the Seattle P-I:

Chef involved as pigs turn into pork

Next, a great article by Mark Bittman about David Chang, chef at Momofuku Noodle Bar in Manhattan. I think Chang and I would be best pals:

> It’s not that David Chang doesn’t like vegetables. In fact, Mr. Chang, the chef and owner of the Momofuku Noodle Bar in the East Village, loves them. He just thinks a little meat makes them better.

I could totally give up meat as a main dish if I could keep it as a flavoring. As a bonus, the article features a recipe for brussels sprouts with kimchi that sounds awesome. The kimchi is essentially used as a sauce. I can’t wait to make this.

Obviously I’m not one of the first million people on the web to complain about this, but isn’t it weird that newspaper sites are still doing the free-registration thing? Is it possible that they’re getting the slightest bit of useful data from it that they couldn’t get from just using anonymous cookies?