February 04, 2008
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
A Huge Depository of Unusual Meals and Foods Here
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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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May 27, 2007 in Food | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack