• News bites

    • 11.17.08

      The best of the second-best bacon

      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)


    • 11.10.08

      Carol Cooks Keller

      “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)


    • 11.07.08

      Cakes we can believe in

      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.


Recipe: Focaccia - Cooks Illustrated recipe works every time

Of all the focaccia recipes we’ve tried, the Cooks Illustrated version, with grated cooked potato in the dough, has turned out best.

Recipe: Caramelized cinnamon hot chocolate by Pierre Herme

It takes a few minutes to caramelize the sugar with the cinnamon stick, but if this isn’t the best pot of hot chocolate you’ve ever had, I want your recipe.

Recipe: Lentil salad in Dijon viniagrette, a la Keller’s ‘Bouchon’

Made with French lentils that hold their shape when tender, this lentil salad is based on a recipe served by Bouchon, Thomas Keller’s bistro.