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.
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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Pho Saigon, in Amherst, NY, is a restaurant that adds to the depth of Vietnamese cuisine in the Buffalo area.
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Charbroiled yet flavorful, the beef satay set the tone for a satisfying spring lunch at Buffalo’s Saigon Cafe.
I love Saigon in the springtime.
My apologies to Cole Porter and the French (well, maybe just Porter). But as far as I am concerned, the only place to be seen or eat this spring is Saigon Café, 1098 [...]
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Speaking of Ulrich’s, local rocker Nelson Starr’s video attempt to lure Anthony Bourdain is one of four finalists. In an attempt to bait Bourdain into bringing his “No Reservations” show for the Travel Channel to the Queen City, Starr, under the direction of local filmmaker John Paget, spotlighted Ulrich’s (fish [...]
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Ulrichs on Ellicott Street, the oldest bar in Buffalo still serves up a terrific fish fry and a selection of German beer.
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After traveling across Western New York and eating 22 different burgers suggested by readers, I came to a few conclusions.
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