• 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.


Munchie box, Glasgow, Scotland: A wee bite after lagers

Munchie box gold, including tandoori chicken, doner kebab meat, pakora, fries and saladish mulch. (Photo by Flickr user surrealist303.)
As a group, Buffalo eaters don’t flinch from meals that take on aspects of a caloric cage match. Watch four husky fellows pillage a steaming bucket of Duff’s hot wings, and you find yourself making sure to [...]

Panaro’s, a Buffalo N.Y. restaurant that gets more than red sauce right

After Panaro’s had gotten so many things right, I let down my guard enough to order a cannoli.

Taste of Buffalo 2008: Finger food fiesta

Three hundred and sixty-three days a year, Buffalo’s street food options - edibles bought in public to eat while walking, talking, or, for the seriously coordinated, cycling - can be kindly described as limited.

Recipe: Chicken sate, Indonesian style - Hit me with your chicken stick

A good chicken sate recipe starts with chicken thigh pieces that have been soaked in a strong marinade flavored with galangal or ginger and other spices.

Recipe: Strawberry shortcake - Celebrate the season

Strawberry shortcake is best with local berries that can ooze tasty berry juice into the welcoming embrace of homemade shortbread like the one presented here.