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.
The Philadelphia Inquirer blogs the behind-the-scenes story of Zahav, an upscale Mideastern place, being shaped inside and out.
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At Daisies Cafe in Lackawanna, N.Y., the Lard Ass Omelette and the open face chicken souvlaki are worth a detour.
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One of the simplest soups, smooth carrot and sweet potato spiked with ginger and a bit of curry pack lots of flavor in a vegan soup.
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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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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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Of all the focaccia recipes we’ve tried, the Cooks Illustrated version, with grated cooked potato in the dough, has turned out best.
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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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Standing in a parking lot shivering can make anyone hungry, but smoked cheeseburgers and grilled shrimp with chipotle salsa will get you ready for the game.
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