The San Francisco Chronicle tasks its Taster’s Choice panel with ranking the turkey bacon brands. Short version? If your fork can’t touch pork, Oscar Meyer’s Louis Rich brand wins by, like, a lot. And if you shop at Kroger, definitely skip the house label. (via) (photo)
“It takes a special kind of nutjob to attempt every recipe in The French Laundry Cookbook,” Carol Blymire writes on French Laundry at Home, where she did exactly that. Start with her recap and retrospective, then work your way back through all the brilliant success and maddening kitchen sadism. (via) (pic)
Zilly Rosen, a cake artist from OBK’s home base of Buffalo, NY, leaves us nearly without words with her 1,250-cupcake Obama portrait. Read how she did it at Cupcakes Take the Cake.
Samurai, in an East Amherst strip mall, is a welcome addition to Buffalo’s Japanese restaurant scene.
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Pho Saigon, in Amherst, NY, is a restaurant that adds to the depth of Vietnamese cuisine in the Buffalo area.
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No one hesitated to grab a slab of scallion pancake.
I’m trying to remember why my family and I ended up at Golden Duck (1840 Maple Rd., Amherst).
Chang’s Garden hadn’t burned down yet, so that wasn’t it. Maybe it was the memory I had of a waiter expertly cutting a Peking duck in the [...]
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The Grand Buffet is on the grander end of the Asian buffet offerings in Amherst, plus frogs’ legs and garishly colored pudding.
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In a corporate office park north of the SUNY Buffalo’s North Campus, Sun Garden cranks out fast, reliable Chinese fare that’s better than average for the area.
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The cook would hack up some pork ribs with a big cleaver, and roll them in some sort of coating. Then he would deep-fry them. Then he would simmer the crunchy nuggets in a sweet wine sauce loaded with a fistful of chopped garlic.
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It’s at a little place on Niagara Falls Boulevard just north of Sheridan Drive (1010 Niagara Falls Blvd., 836-5858). Called Koreana, it dishes up homestyle Korean to college students and families, mostly, many with links to the nearby University at Buffalo.
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Well, I drove by tonight and there were workmen there at 9 p.m. Judging from the vans in the parking lot, they included a fire alarm system guy.
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India Gate? If India Gate seems like some sort of peak experience, you must never eat at Tandoori’s or Kebab & Curry on Transit Road in Amherst, or you will burst into a pure supernova of culinary joy for the wonder of flavor you will encounter.
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Made of a fermented lentil-rice batter, the dosa straddles the border between crispy and chewy. Its size, some two or three feet across, gives the eater plenty of time to ponder the right adjectives.
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