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.
How hard do you try getting your kids to eat their spinach? Promising a trip to the ice cream parlor might help - but not how you’re thinking.
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Halloumi, a cheese from Cyprus, browns and crisps in the pan, so we pile it up with sweet watermelon and pineapple in a tangy Asian lime sauce.
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We say goodbye, with tears and barbecue, to John Jay Bonfatti, one of the great smokers, jokers, reporters and friends of this or any other age.
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Russ Parsons’ book “How to Pick a Peach” proved the best match on two of the recipes, a tomato tart built on supermarket puff pastry, and a plum cornmeal buckle.
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