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.
The Rue Franklin’s foie gras torchon is an appetizer that takes teamwork, and two days, to bring to the plate.
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Try Mortgage Meltaways, delicate lime wafers that are so impossibly delicious you’ll risk anything to try them!
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Get the tension out of your shoulders by beating cheap steak into tenderness, or buying cube steak, for a Loveboat of beef and milk gravy called Subprime Steak.
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Finally getting a chance to compete in the Pittsburgh chili contest of his dreams, Ben Siegel decides to go vegetarian for a change, with a three-bean recipe.
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Edible Buffalo, the sixth New York State Edible Communities magazine, is a great introduction to the regional foods and tastemakers of Western New York.
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Lehman Crumbles pack a lemony filling in a cookie crust with a dusting of toasted almonds and powdered sugar. Bad business - good cookie.
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Dick Punch is named in honor of the guy who reportedly punched Lehman Brothers rockstar CEO Dick Fuld in the face while Fuld was de-stressing in the Lehman gym after a hard day of destroying the American financial system.
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For the beginning restaurant cook, there’s no better feeling than finishing the first disaster-free shift, as Jacob Drum explains
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Our man in Philadelphia checks out a few cheesesteak recommendations off the tourist path: La Spada’s in Parkside and Leo’s in Folcroft.
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A slideshow of sushi dishes at Seabar City, Ellicott Street, Buffalo NY.
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