• 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.


Open season on Farmers Markets: Browsing the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market, Buffalo N.Y.

It was early in the season, but cherries, raspberries, strawberries, beets, radishes, and herbs were at the Elmwood-Bidwell Farmers Market, Buffalo N.Y.

Restaurants: Seabar City, Buffalo N.Y. - That’s right, I said ‘Buffalo style sushi’

Mike Andrzejewski is a Polish-American sushi chef. You got a problem with that?
When you tell people there’s free sushi, look out. My darling wife Kathy and I arrived at 475 Ellicott St., just north of the Washington Market, to find the street blocked off and a crowd of people milling about, with their eyes on [...]

Restaurants: Vargas, Buffalo N.Y. - The prince of Puerto Rican pork returns

Buffalo’s best Puerto Rican roast pork is back with Vargas restaurant’s reappearance on Niagara Street.

Restaurants: Scharf’s Schiller Park, Buffalo N.Y. - The good German:

The neighborhood has changed but Scharf’s Schiller Park in Buffalo N.Y. still serves up the same reliable German fare like wiener schnitzel, spaetzle and roast duck.

Video: Grilled asparagus with roasted garlic aioli

Grill asparagus for a springtime treat and dress it with garlic aioli, or mayonnaise, in this Elements cooking video from The Buffalo News.