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12/14/07 // Link:
Anthony Bourdain on how to Find Good Food Anywhere Anthony Bourdain’s tip for finding good food wherever you’re headed: provoke the nerds. The question at hand was how to find good restaurants, and his answer was to take the city you want to go to and just google up …continue reading »
10/18/07 // Link:
The Southern Foodways Alliance One of Corrinne’s friends works for the organization, which is apparently quite well known, though it was new to me. Essentially they collect and preserve southern cooking culture. They did a whole bunch of stuff trying to help folks after …continue reading »
10/15/07 // Link:
Scotch Maverick Reinvents a Once-Conservative Drink The always excellent Paul Adams on some new scotch technology, from Wired: >Halfway through our interview, John Glaser walks away from the table, leaving me alone with the tools of his trade: graduated cylinders, conical measures, tasting glasses, water and …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
What Your Food Cravings Are Really For I generally eschew all forms of health food, eat what tastes good remains my prevailing motto. I’m fortunately in that I think fresh food, well prepared tastes good. But bias aside, this is an interesting look at what food cravings …continue reading »
09/18/07 // Link:
Anthony Bourdain’s Overrated Menu The cranky celebrity chef chops up dining’s hottest trends: “Be sure to sample our selection of flavored salts, and please await the water sommelier: A chef who offers anything other than sea salt probably refers to himself in the third …continue reading »
09/08/07 // Link:
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch? Having worked in the food industry for nearly nine years, I can attest to the staggering amount of waste it produces, and it sounds like the supermarket world is no better, so why not grab some? Unfortunately lots of places …continue reading »
08/03/07 // Link:
Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less The New York Times on quick and easy meals. Some of these aren’t half bad. Some of them, regrettably, are. Or at least I certainly hope people can come up with a lot of these without having the read it …continue reading »
07/27/07 // Link:
Greenskeeping This makes logical sense (plants need carbon dioxide, which you exhale), but I’ve never tried it myself (from Dorie Greenspan): “I know, it looks a little weird, kind of like a terrarium for lettuce, but it’s really a little bit …continue reading »
06/05/07 // Link:
True to His Tongue Reason.com recently reviewed Barry Glassner’s new book, The Gospel of Food: “Years ago, I interviewed Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, for a National Review article about his group’s highly publicized reports decrying …continue reading »
06/01/07 // Link:
Zen in the Kitchen: Tevfik Usta From a Turkish food blogger I ran across the other day: “This morning, I went to my favorite place in Antalya. It is a simple pastry shop, which is open between 7-12 in the morning. Tevfik Usta, or Master Tevfik, …continue reading »
05/30/07 // Link:
Salvage and Season Cast Iron Cookware As a former chef, there’s nothing that disturbs me quite as much as watching people wash their cast iron skillets with soap and water. Well, okay there’s plenty of things that disturb me far more, but still, for the love …continue reading »
05/24/07 // Link:
New Grub Street Interesting look at the debate over whether or not Whole Foods is any better than any other grocery store. Probably not, based on my experiences, but it does cost a hell of a lot more, so if you equate money …continue reading »
05/17/07 // Link:
A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks Stuart Elliott the New York Times “Minimalist” writes what professional chefs have always known: all that expensive kitchen equipment is totally unnecessary. “The question I’m asked more often than any other is, ‘What kitchen equipment should I buy?’ Like cookbooks, …continue reading »
02/05/07 // Link:
Miracle Fruit Miracle fruit is an obscure fruit that alters one’s sense of taste, masking bitter and especially sour flavors, causing lemons, limes, beers, and lots of other things to taste amazingly good. After reading about it on the Web and tracking …continue reading »
02/02/07 // Link:
How to Eat Vegetarian on the Cheap “I recently posted two articles for frugal carnivores: a guide to cheap cuts of beef and another on on how to buy a side of beef. GRS-reader Sally has produced an introduction to eating vegetarian for cheap. Though her tips …continue reading »

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