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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
On how to properly drink a cappuccino.
Is the recipe card dead?
Epicurious posted two articles on how to survive holiday boozing. Bottoms up!
Enter the world of fictional food.
‘Tis the season of lists. The James Beard Foundation predicts 2012 food trends.
Indeed! What IS behind that very, uh, distinct smell emanating from Subway?
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Vegetarians: shield your eyes.
As someone who has a genetic predisposition to high cholesterol, you have no idea how happy I am to say “cheese!”
An example of how we fall prey to marketers: fancy chocolate.
I am 100% behind/guilty of the trend to eat whatever I want, whenever I want it. I feel like part of becoming an adult means not having to eat according to a schedule anointed by school bells.
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
A very good reason to have a microwave: easy brown butter.
The New York Times has announced their new restaurant critic. Lucky bastard.
Splitting cheques should only rely on your elementary school division skills.
How do you feel about cooking without a recipe?
Trendspotting at Canada’s Gold Medal Plates 2011.
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Beautiful illustrations of food rules worth following.
I hate overcooked pasta, and it’s shameful how many restaurants are guilty of serving it. Are you aware of the other cardinal pasta sins?
Is Top Chef evil?
Breakfast: The Crucial Date Meal. LOVE!
Don’t be afraid of cheap wine.
My dinner at Roberta's.
Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Freshly back from NYC, I was very happy to see that two places I frequented (Roberta’s and The Dutch) were mentioned in Sam Sifton’s farewell New York Times dining section article. In fact, I asked my friends to take me to Roberta’s in Bushwick based on Sam’s recent glowing review—it was my favourite meal of the trip. And hands down, the best pizza I’ve ever had.
An easy topic to discuss at the dinner table is what you would have for your last meal. With Texas recently ending this tradition, the NY Times talked to someone who actually cooked last meals for death row inmates. They are not the meals of your dreams.
If macarons are the new cupcakes, then you need to know how to spot a good one (or rather, how to spot a bad one). Because with everybody doing it, there’s going to be lots of duds.
Looks like Canadian menus are getting bloody.
Help your little ones make cookies for the Cookie Monster!
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Silly ideas should be given the benefit of the doubt at first… but ABC’s new daytime talk/food variety show The Chew, with notable hosts Mario Batali and Michael Symon, got chewed up and spit out by a number of critics after its debut.
Weekly eye roll: Trying to make money off the cupcake trend by creating “cupcake” flavoured vodka.
I believe it: Top 5 dessert trends. With the black pepper icing seen in a recent Bon Appetit and the foie gras profiteroles at Le Pigeon in Portland that are much discussed, you might want to take a cue from this list for your next dinner party.
Could chicken skin eclipse bacon for you? This article has been highly circulated this week and surprise, surprise, PETA is not happy about it.
A global feast: Check out this wonderful collection of food blogs from around the world.
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Now that I’m fully engrossed in Book 1 of Game of Thrones after becoming hooked on the television show, I love this story about a food blog devoted to GoT food.
Can food (scientifically) affect your mood? Maybe?
I’m not sure why, but Alton Brown felt it necessary to write up a fanifesto in advance of his book tour. (I think getting skinny did something to him.)
I completely understand this: Ruth Bourdain came up with her own version of how fans should approach celebrity chefs, calling it Mein Fanf.
If you haven’t heard, Sam Sifton from the New York Times is leaving his post as their restaurant critic… officially in October.
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
All about why salt is so amazing.
Hybrid fruit: A pluerry sounds like it would be much tastier than a grapple.
Unfortunately the Palestinian chicken joint was fictional, but here’s a pretty comprehensive list of all the places Larry David has dined at on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
You might want to think twice before making your foodie dream of going to culinary school a reality…
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Despite his strange rants against molecular gastronomy recently, I’ve always enjoyed Alton Brown. So long, Good Eats!
Twinings is changing its Earl Grey recipe?!
Yes, I would totally fall prey to the marketing of a foodie version of Scrabble.
Are you road-tripping this long weekend? Maybe you should learn the art of dashboard dining.
Do swear at a bird before it is carved… and other interesting etiquette tidbits from around the globe.
Paris alert: David Lynch just opened a nightclub!
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Our cultural foodie moment means that there are heaps of food-related news stories, info pieces and commentaries that appear on a daily basis. Here are our favourites of the week.
Although Cream is a big fan of Anthony Bourdain and admittedly a food snob, Frank Bruni’s Op-Ed piece this week in the New York Times on the culinary elitism Bourdain displayed in his spat with Paula Deen last week is pretty persuasive.
Want another view on this debate? Read the concerns the Village Voice raises about Bruni. Also persuasive.
Change your Saturday night cocktail party plans: wine and cheese aren’t the best of friends.
If you’ve never experienced the adventures desk eating at an office, please read all about how obnoxious some people can be. Cream raises her hand on being highly offensive on the apple eating front…
In the eloquent words of Tina Fey, Sugar says, “I want to go to there.” David Lebovitz reflects on forty years of Alice Waters’ famous Chez Panisse.
Gordon Ramsay’s sprinklers try and put out the hell fire in his new Montreal chicken joint. Ramsay as the new Canadian comfort food king? Alrighty.
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