I’d tell you that we have no excuse for our absences, but that’s not strictly true. We all have excuses. Mine is that I’m lazy. Some of the other meatbloggers have better excuses, claiming they have real lives that apparently don’t revolve around the meatblog. (I know! Crazy!)

Eric recently developed an obsession with Chinese food - and in particular Chinese food in American culture - that has already necessitated a total rearrangement of our bookshelves and the annexing of several shelves of fiction to the downstairs bookcases in order to accommodate the influx of cookbooks, history tomes, and memoirs related to Chinese cuisine. There are chickenfeet in our freezer and we’re going to San Francisco this week so he can cavort around Chinatown. If anyone should be enthusiastically meatblogging, it should be him, don’t you think?

In the spirit of Halloween, I’ll share with you that there’s a package of chicken feet in our freezer that may actually be haunted by some fowl apparition - it periodically launches itself off the shelf and tries to crush my toes. I won’t be sad to see the chicken feet go away.

Living with a food scholar is dangerous business.

Back to the litany of pathetic non-excuses for why the meatblog has been silent -
Recently, JunglePete was scarred by pictures of brain cupcakes.

braaaaaaains, originally uploaded by xsomnis.

We heard that JunglePete is resting comfortably and should be back to his old self in no time. We also heard that he’s cheating on us by blogging for Audubon Guides. I bet they don’t let him blog about actually eating the subjects of his posts. We’d certainly let him blog about eating rattlesnakes. I’m just saying…

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