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Posted in Links on Jun 18th, 2008
The New York Times Dining section reported today that the White Lily flour company, which makes the supposedly premiere biscuit flour (lighter, fluffier) is moving its flour mills from Knoxville to the Midwest, causing shock and despair throughout the Southern baking community. (I hardly exaggerate here.) I wrote about my attempts to make biscuits a [...]
Posted in Links on May 6th, 2008
The fourth annual D’Artagnan Duckathon, which took place at Chelsea Market (in nyc) yesterday, is covered in a great slideshow by Gourmet. I particularly like the challenge that involves matching a table full of testicles to the animals that they came from (slides 7 and 8). I bet if Nikki had to do that challenge, [...]
Posted in Links on Mar 20th, 2008
Apologies for the fuzzy graphic, but I am too lazy (anyone sensing a theme here) to get a better one. This site posts pretty hilarious reviews of bad candies, most of which appear to be Mexican. That’s about all the explanation it requires. Have a look. Editorial Note: On deeper inspection, this site doesn’t appear [...]
Posted in Links on Mar 7th, 2008
We’re onto you, Bittman. Another Food Junta ripoff.
This is AMAZING. Like, make-my-week amazing. Coolio now has a web-based cooking show. In Episode 1, he promises that “if you’re girlfriend is one of those salad-eatin’ bitches,” that he will “show you how to make a salad that’ll get them panties right off,” and it only gets better from there. The cooking is actually [...]
Posted in Links on Feb 25th, 2008
Plagiarism is in the front of the public consciousness these days, in the age of “change you can Xerox.” I’m not going to claim that Mark Bittman stole my idea for his blog (which, generally, is totally awesome), but a paranoiac might find the timing here a little too convenient when Bittman posts about homemade [...]