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.
It’s a festival of beer and beer culture in Niagara Falls to help raise money for the Niagara Arts and Cultural Center.
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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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I’m going to be taking nominations, and checking out favorites, for the Great Western New York Burger Hunt.
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As Esquire magazine tries to declare their choices for America’s greatest sandwiches, what sandwiches come to mind that you can put your hands on?
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Corn chowder is a warming, welcoming soup that’s full of veggie goodness for the vegetarians but so hearty the carnivores won’t notice.
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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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Jalapenos and vegetables warm to the embrace of spices and vinegar in this versatile pickling method. They’re good in a few days and perfect in a week or two.
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