• 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.


CRASH COURSES: Mortgage Meltaways, the cookie that’s sweeter than a broker’s lies

Try Mortgage Meltaways, delicate lime wafers that are so impossibly delicious you’ll risk anything to try them!

CRASH COURSES: Subprime Steak - finally, a gravy train you can catch

Get the tension out of your shoulders by beating cheap steak into tenderness, or buying cube steak, for a Loveboat of beef and milk gravy called Subprime Steak.

CRASH COURSES: When life gives you lemons, and by “gives you lemons” we mean “fires you,” Lehman Crumbles will ease the ache

Lehman Crumbles pack a lemony filling in a cookie crust with a dusting of toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Bad business - good cookie.

CRASH COURSES: Who deserves a Dick Punch?

Dick Punch is named in honor of the guy who reportedly punched Lehman Brothers rockstar CEO Dick Fuld in the face while Fuld was de-stressing in the Lehman gym after a hard day of destroying the American financial system.