Pennington's Foodstory

    If you say to someone ('round these parts), "Hey, let's go eat some goat meat."  they're gonna look at you like you have three fucking heads.   Americans, at this stage of the game, aren't digging on goat.  It's funny because goat is the most widely consumed meat on this planet and we are a group of folks who love to rip off any and every other culture and claim it as our own.  It's a staple of authentic Mexican, Indian, North African, and Jamaican cuisines.  What makes goat different?  The answer to that question boggles even my food-lovin' mind.      Say "goat cheese" and you get tons of agreement.  Everyone has hopped on the goat cheese bandwagon in the last 20 years and now it seems pretty standard.  "Goat milk"?  Still not too far off base, but goat meat is a whole 'nother ballgame.  People seem to understand lamb pretty well, from leg of..., to chops, to sausage, even lamb bur...

    I got a call last weekend from my older brother Pete who lives on the Big Island of Hawaii asking when I was going to write some more on my blog.  I just happened to be at a friend's crawfish boil with Kelly and some folks from work, when I told him I was looking for inspiration to write.  He said why don't you write about that.  It sounded like a great idea, but  I realized that I should first write about Hawaii, seeing that Kelly and I were just there visiting with him.     It's been well over a month since we returned from our bi-annual pilgrimage to Hawaii and I'm still brimming over with the "Aloha Spirit".  We did basically the same things as we did the last time.  We stayed at the same place, went to many of the same restaurants, but as with each time we go, it feels like a brand new place.      I DVR'd the 'No Reservations' Hawaii episode where Ton...