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.
For the beginning restaurant cook, there’s no better feeling than finishing the first disaster-free shift, as Jacob Drum explains
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How hard do you try getting your kids to eat their spinach? Promising a trip to the ice cream parlor might help - but not how you’re thinking.
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We say goodbye, with tears and barbecue, to John Jay Bonfatti, one of the great smokers, jokers, reporters and friends of this or any other age.
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It was early in the season, but cherries, raspberries, strawberries, beets, radishes, and herbs were at the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market, Buffalo N.Y.
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KFC’s Famous Bowl is potatoes, cheese, popcorn chicken, buttery corn niblets and gravy - it’s not just for breakfast anymore. Patton Oswalt expounds upon fast food and slow death.
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I’m going to be taking nominations, and checking out favorites, for the Great Western New York Burger Hunt.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer blogs the behind-the-scenes story of Zahav, an upscale Mideastern place, being shaped inside and out.
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So let’s pretend for a second that I’m not a huge Lord of the Rings nerd. The kind who’s still peeved that that the movie script had Frodo in Osgiliath practically brandishing the One Ring at a Nazgul like a magnesium flare in a coal mine. (”Yoo-hoo, Witch King of Aaaaaang-mar! Who wants a bon-bon?”)
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There is something mesmerizing about a pile of bacon in a buffet line chafing dish, enough crispy strips to fill a pillowcase. Mmm - bacon pillow.
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