May 01, 2008
African Mystery Food
Ed Bing Lee's knotted food artworks. (From Blort)
Even though you are not likely to be offered most of these meals in a five star hotel or a resturant in down town Africa, these meals indeed are traditionally eaten in the countryside. African Mystery Food
Fabricating complex shapes: A sugar chain - Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories’s Open Source project to “reduce the costs associated with three-dimensional solid freeform fabrication, and to promote the use of fabrication technologies for culinary, educational, and artistic purposes”
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March 15, 2008
Great Butters
The variety of domestic and foreign butters available today is immense. Of the hundred or so butters we sampled during the making of this issue, the following 30 impressed us with their distinctive flavors, textures, and colors. 30 Great Butters (With a nice photo gallery. From Everything and nothing)
A sandwich loaf is a stacked party entree that looks like a cake. While rare today, the food was quite popular during the mid 20th century. To create a sandwich loaf, bread is cut horizontally and spread with layers of filling. Common fillings include egg salad, chicken salad, ham salad, tuna salad, and Cheez Whiz, but other fillings are possible, including mock egg salad made from tofu and peanut butter and jelly. White bread is usually used to create a sandwich loaf, but wheat is also acceptable. Sometimes white and wheat are used in alternating layers to create a ribbon effect. After the layers are assembled the entire loaf is coated with whipped cream cheese, which may be tinted with food coloring. Common garnishes are olives, parsley, grapes, and carrot curls.
Other regional sandwich styles
Pickle Sickle, made from fresh-squeezed pickles and brine
The many varieties of Skittles
Try spaghetti with B in B mushrooms. (From Gallery of Graphic Design)
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March 07, 2008
Pizza Crusts
Honey cubes - Like sugar cubes but with honey
Bud Light Cheese Ad - Superbowl 2008
Top Ten Crazy Asian Pizza Crusts. (Thank you, Rafael)
An Oldie: Have you ever bought a yogurt with “Fruit at the bottom”? Have you ever wondered how much fruit is actually in each cup? You’ll be disappointed to know that it’s no more than 5.2 grams per serving
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February 19, 2008
Cheeseman
Rare Foods - Bull Penis (YT)
Paris food. (From Nag on the Lake)
Kingly transcendence: The recipe for Fool's Gold Loaf
More Felt Foods. (From Blort)
Later update: Food Fight, the movie!
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February 04, 2008
Cuisine par François Vogel
(From paranoid)
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A co-blog post with foodtographer jo jo
hello everyone!
my name is jo jo and i write a food blog called eat 2 love. it's about food, restaurants and my life in manhattan. i shuttered my blog on friday because my work was being poached for creative feature ideas, and photography style by mainstream food media people in n.y. at newspaper, magazine and food websites over the past year. as a publisher friend said "if you keep posting, they'll keep poaching." i've decided not to give them any more ideas.
and so here i am, a blog refugee seeking asylum at grow a brain, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. this signals a change for grow a brain as well - this is blog evolution. change is good. change is your friend.
my thanks to hanan for his generosity. let us know what you think (and make hanan happy).
asian cuisine is delicious to be sure, however, the one weak spot in chinese, japanese, thai, korean, vietnamese food is dessert. since asian culture was traditionally dairy free, desserts are made from rice, beans and sugar - rather boring and bland compared with the creamy, buttery, chocolate-y, espresso-ed and fruity european pastries.
wagashi are japanese sweets. They are made of rice flour and can be filled with red bean paste, mung bean, sesame, chestnut, mugwort - basically grains & beans. who wants dessert made of starches? another characteristic of wagashi is that they are not very sweet, so these wagashi look much better than they taste. they make a stylish gift though. you can get these at mitsuwa.
french nougatine
these hand made nougatine from pierre herme are very intensely flavored and fantastic. they're from pastry god pierre herme in paris. after you eat these, all other nougatine will be dead to you.
cocktail grapefruits
last week in nyc it was 24 degrees cold. i wish that i lived in san francisco because i have fruit envy. our farmer's market here in union square carries fruits that can grow near the big apple - basically ..... apples. and a few pears. i know that in california you have an amazing cornucopia of produce. witness these cocktail grapefruits which i found at my local trader joe. they are a mutant... i mean hybrid - a cross between a mandarin orange and a pomelo. tasting very mild with zero acidity, it's extremely juicy.
heart of a macaron
this is a cherry and pistachio macaron from pierre herme. french macarons are made of ground almond flour, egg white and sugar, with a layer of flavored ganache filling. no one makes french macarons better than the french. believe me, in new york bakeries, a good macaron is harder to find than a good man.
eggs or edible art ?
chinese tea eggs - pretty and protein-acious. very easy to make, i made these by gently cooking eggs in their shell. then you pull them out of the water and crack the shells with a spoon, taking out your aggressions for the day. make a soaking liquid of black tea bags, soy sauce, water, star anise and dunk the eggs back in, simmer and soak for an hour and a half. when you remove the shells - you have beautiful tea eggs. impress your friends.
urban gourmande kitchen
my kitchen is so tiny that i stuck all my kitchen appliances up on my fridge to save space. the dishwasher door opens and those two dish racks slide out. the unidentified object in the microwave is either a loaf of challah bread or a turd, i'm not sure which. in a smart move to discourage litigation, the coffee maker is named ms. coffee. the mini vac comes in handy cause i vacuum my apartment twice a year, whether it needs it or not.
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Here is another “co-blogged” post, this time composed with “jo jo”, a foodtographer in NYC, who (until yesterday) used to blog at eat2love. Thank you, jojo! (All previous co-bloggers archived here.) If other creative types are interested to share the forum here on any other topic, please contact me for details.
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January 31, 2008
Serious Sandwiches
Nietzsche Pops, the first breakfast cereal that is not afraid to proclaim that "God Is Dead". From Ben Hillman & Company
Serious Sandwiches: The Overlooked Sandwiches of 2007
Can you find three foods such that all three do not go together (by any reasonable definition of foods "going together") but every pair of them does go together? The Incompatible Food Triad
Horrible news: Poor Haitians Resort to Eating Mud Cookies
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January 18, 2008
The longest Korean food
How to peel potatoes in one second. (From Ben Klinger)
Korean Food - Biggest and longest
I have maintained a few freshwater aquariums in my time. I am also always fascinated by the use of aquariums in fish markets which are also used by restaurants to hold live lobsters or similar facsimiles until someone buys one. Then they cook him up and someone eats him. Why not have seafood market aquariums at your living room?
2007 fantasy meal at Country Epicure. (From Chuck Eats)
Cuisine of the Levant in Amman, Jordan
What is Luis Guzmán doing selling Vermont cheddar?
Also, do not say cheese at Whole Foods Markets…
100 things to do with a Meyer lemon
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December 03, 2007
Bon Asaveur
Sir, may I recommend the 'Lard Surprise'. (From the old & delightful Daze of Our Lives)
Tall stack of pancakes, 207 total, by Elizabeth Demaray
Another Reason Not To Shop At Balducci's
Toasted Bagel to go with avocado – in a CD spindle
Saveurpétit, the Thanksgiving edition
A pinch of salt improves the flavor of cocoa, and 59 other uses for table salt
Food Pairing algorithmic food generator
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November 20, 2007
Battle on the Breakfast Table
World Pie Championship jury member John Young poses with Two scotch pies during the judging of the competition in Dunfermline, Scotland
The winning entries in the Mashed Potato Sculpture Contest. (From J-walk)
Food That Looks Like what it isn’t
I can’t believe it’s not I Can't Believe It's Not Butter
Re-post: Bacon N Eggs
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November 04, 2007
Processed cheese
The many types of gourmet sea salts offered at "The Meadow". (From Ideas in Food, the blog of chefs Aki Kamozawa & H. Alexander Talbot. Don’t forget to check out the photo albums at the bottom right sidebar)
Prune orange cheese salad
How Kraft persuaded Americans to accept cheese by divorcing it from its microbe-laden origins -From Cheese to Cheese product
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October 23, 2007
Making Noodles
Best book title ever - Cooking with Pooh. Sadly, this book is no longer in print
Pizza with no cheese or sauce, and beef on the left side only, at the great Pizza Orientation Test
To The Stoner Who Works At Cottage Inn Pizza. Thank you for the Best pizza I ever had
How to order Chinese food Dot com. (From Information Junk)
Also, Making Noodles with chef Kin Jing Mark. (YT)
Dex, I was surprised this morning to receive your book. Thank you so much. I’ll start reading it, and let you know
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October 14, 2007
Falafel videos on YouTube
Complaints My Middle-School Students in Korea Had About Our School's Food, and Complaints American Middle-School Students Would Have If They Were Served Korean Food
Also: Lies printed on my waffle iron
How to prepare the perfect boiled egg
From Sweetbread which is neither sweet, nor bread to Mincemeat which contains nuts, dried fruit, beef suet, spices and brandy or rum, but usually no meat, a List of misleading food names
More Falafel videos on YouTube: Falafel Rush with the boys at Aleppo, Syria, and DeDe Mediterranean Kitchen
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October 05, 2007
Breakfast in China
Victorian trade cards. Subcategories of the Food category include Meat, Oysters, Condensed Milk, Pickles, Seafood, Crackers, Baking Powder and Soup
Tinned marshmallows at The American Package Museum. (From David Thompson)
An Israeli Pita pocket bag
365 cheeses, one for each day of the year
On the other hand, here’s Casu marzu, Sardinian cheese notable for being riddled with live insect larvae. Casu marzu means "rotten cheese" and is known colloquially as maggot cheese
Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Part III
Ivan Minic’s Art of Food Carving
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September 25, 2007
Antique Toasters
The 7 Wonders of the Food Coloring World
Re-post: Non-Elelctric Toasters and other Antique Toasters for sale
No sticks for corn dogs at the Prison Food Convention
I don’t think I ever posted any recipes here before, but on the other hand I didn’t know that the Mexican-style Spicy Pickled Carrots were so easy to make
Underwater Dining record broken. (From Spluch)
Suicide Food is any depiction of animals that act as though they wish to be consumed
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September 09, 2007
Dinner with Jan Švankmajer
Dinner (Jídlo) by Jan Švankmajer
Alexandra and the Pickle at the 6th Annual NYC International Pickle Day. (From Information Junk)
Ramen bowl erasers
In the United States, the term "submarine" is widespread, but there are also many regional names for the sandwich: heroes, subs, grinders, Spuckies, Wedges, Torpedos, Hoagies or Po' boys
If you were driving cross-country, and were forced to bring a breakfast cereal mascot - who would it be?
Takeru Kobayashi Retires!
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August 12, 2007
The egg of darkness
There is a delicacy infamous in Filipino culture that can put a crippling chill in the spine of grown men almost as quickly as talk of aswang. That delicacy is the notorious balut. Balut is a popular Filipino street snack and is essentially a duck egg with a fetus inside, typically between seventeen to twenty days in gestation. In the Philippines balut is so popular that it is equivalent to what the hot dog is in the U.S. There are balut vendors who push around carts full of fetal treats and bark their wares in a sing-song chant of “baluuuut, baluuuut!” Balut is also a popular aphrodisiac for men. But even with the good vibes and positive spin surrounding balut, the stigma attached to eating it overshadows all the warm and fuzzy aspects of this very Deep End Dining dish. Balut making
(Much more at the beautiful Street food in the Philippines)
Diane Bernard is “The Seaweed Lady of Vancouver Island”, supplying fine restaurants in Victoria with fresh seaweed. (From Cosmic Variance)
Tasting a kilo of Guinness Marmite
Fast food on flickr
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July 26, 2007
You Say Mutato I Say Mutatoe
Mangiamaccheroni, the Neapolitan macaroni-eating lads
Food Design makes possible to think in food as an edible designed product, an object that negates any reference to cooking, tradition and gastronomy
Giada De Laurentiis Loves Tomatoes
July 20, 1801: A gargantuan cheese is pressed from the milk of nine hundred or so “Republican” cows—a gift for Thomas Jefferson. (From Exploding Aardvark)
The Definitive General Tso's Chicken Page
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July 08, 2007
Uzbeki Plov
The search for the perfect croissant in Paris. (From Beattie's Book Blog)
Play Food on flickr
Re-post: Mock Duck - A delicious assortment of thrift store cookbooks
What's Cooking Grandma? Creating a cookbook of the grandmothers of the world sharing their special recipes
Winners of Debonair Magazine's Food Blog Awards
How to cook Uzbeki Plov, which is apparently Uzbekistan's national dish. It is cooked by François-Xavier (FX) of the wonderful FX Cuisine blog, which I picked as the latest Blog of the day
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May 27, 2007
Speed cooking
In 1952 the Soviets published "Kniga o Vkusnoi i Zdorovoi Pishe" ("Book about Tasty and Healthy Food"). The book contains many fascinating and beautiful examples of Soviet-era product design
Pizza Hut's New Pizza Lover's Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas. (From same reliable source: You Can Tell Area Bank Used To Be A Pizza Hut, and Chili Dog, Cheddar Fries Caught In Area Beard)
The Underground Menu at L'Enclume. The chef Simon Rogan is possibly the most innovative chef in the UK, pushing forward concepts and ideas in molecular gastronomy more than anyone except Ferran Adria
Charles Kaufman’s Toaster Paintings
Speed cooking - A skit from a TV show in New Zealand called Moon TV. It Features “That Guy” cooking a 3 course meal in under 2 minutes
I am gone “fishing” for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. By the way, this is post no. 3000.
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April 10, 2007
Fried Butter Balls
Björn Lindberg’s The taste of color
At My Dinner Party I invited five good friends to a home cooked meal of salad, macaroni and cheese (from scratch), salad, rolls, and apple juice. They ate off of cast sugar plates and salt cups, prepared especially for the occasion
Deep-fried Balls of Butter
A collection of kinky herrings on flickr. (Thank you, Many)
Seattle chef Jason Wilson’s Cooking With Peeps
Brad Levy, chef-owner of Firefly Restaurant in San Francisco is making Gefilte Fish from scratch. (From Presurfer)
Chefs by Luke Stephenson
Cumin Spritzer and other Little-Used Kitchen Appliances
Mama Mia Thats a spicy meatball. (YouTube)
The Gorgonzola Song. (Brought in nearly 2 years after an old question on AskMefi thread)
What is this? More questions On The Green
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March 28, 2007
Ze Frank money shot
Re-posts from Ze Show 8/30/06 - Fingers in food and Jam 1:19 from Hotdogboy
Pancake Art on flickr. (From Blort). Also, pancakes for junkies
Nihilist Chewing Gum - No flavor
Bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand - The actual video of Body Parts Made Of Bread
Rachel Ray money shots by Naomi Leibowitz. What could possibly be more annoying than one rachel ray?
Researchers at the University of Illinois say the so-called "5-Second Rule" isn't a myth
A guide to eating a “delicious” MRE (=Meal, Ready-to-Eat)
Best grilled cheese sandwich thread on Metafilter. Previously-blogged: Winners of The Greatest Grilled Cheese Sandwich in America
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February 21, 2007
You maintain a sense of humor (in bed)
The gastronomic experiences of Ulterior Epicure. (From the gorgeous, new Taste Spotting)
Morgan Freeman sounds off on this month’s Tostada Magazine
Turn your favorite animals into snacks with Photoshop
New lobster killing machines. (From Boing2)
An American girl about the British Food Experience
Man gets English breakfast tattoo on his head. (Not as bad as this guy)
For five decades the fortune cookie has been the cryptic completion to any Chinese-American restaurant meal. Salon article by Bonnie Tsui
Breaking news: 8-Year-Old Obviously Packed Own Lunch
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January 31, 2007
Pop
The Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Georgia
Natalie Dee preparing Scrambled Emu eggs
Bocuse d'Or World Cuisine Contest
Amy Youngs Digestive Table: A living ecosystem of worms, sowbugs and bacteria
Great Appliance Disasters
10 novel uses for your microwave oven beside cooking food in it
On the Edibility of Very Old Food: A box of 106-year-old Cadbury bars
What Does 200 Calories Look Like?
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants” – The summery of Unhappy Meals
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January 02, 2007
Save French hedgehogs: Don't eat the stew
The Ghetto Gourmet began as an original underground dining experience in a basement apartment in Oakland, California. The Townsend brothers, Joe the chef and Jeremy the poet, cultivated a loyal following literally from the ground up. Every Monday night, 15-30 strangers gathered on their living room floor for a chance to make new friends and enjoy deliciously creative cuisine. (From Looka)
French animal lovers have filed a lawsuit after a publishing company issued a hunter’s year book extolling the virtues of “hedgehog stew”. The recipe appears in the ‘Almanach du Chasseur‘ (The Hunter’s Almanach)
Breakfast at the International Space Station. (From a Metafilter thread about astronaut Ed Lu’s blog)
$150 paid to an Ex-Google Answers researcher to write a detailed analysis of Soup
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December 03, 2006
“Any item will do so long as it is long, thin, straight, and stiff”
Throwing a pie in someone's face is good. Throwing food at pi is better. How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs. Pi tattoo. (From Easternblot)
Experiments in disgusting Icelandic foods, part tveir. (From a Metafilter thread about Hákarl fermented shark). More about Traditional Icelandic food
I love cheese. What interesting or wonderful cheese should I try?
Fried Moon Pies and 14 other Odd Deep-Fried Foods
Stories of Chinese Cleaver Part III: Chef Shiu and his immense cleaver
Six Primitive Traps For Catching Food In The Woods
Sandwiches at Thibeault’s. Delfts porcelain pattern toasted on sandwich
A bunch of Cinnamon links from "Exploding Aardvark"
What families around the world eat in one week, by Peter Menzel
When you crave a food, what you really need is something else
Old Glory Sandwich above from Brownie points blog
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November 06, 2006
Ghana's Street Food
A series of cats of salty dough by food artist Olga Griga
Kuniko Maeda’s Food Art. (From Moco Loco). Also, Food for Halloween
The wonders of deep-fried pizza - Look for it at your local Pizza parlor next month. (From The Gowanus Lounge)
From beach to belly in 27 hours. Do-It-Yourself Fried Clam Kit! (At We Love Clams)
From John Belushi to Julia Child - Deathbed Soup Tales. A list of people whose last meal was soup
How bent spaghetti break. (Why dry spaghetti don't break in half)
A Taste of Ghana. People travel to Africa for history and for scenery but never the food. I don't get it
Where can I buy a 20lb lobster online? (More lobster claws)
Deep friend Pentium II with a side of French fries
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