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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When you’re a topnotch author and trained cook like Michael Ruhlman, having knocked out a few little titles like the French Laundry Cookbook and the acknowledged bible of home-curing meats, Charcuterie, what do you whip up for a cozy stay-at-home New Year’s Eve?
Why, a roasted whole foie gras, of course. Why didn’t I think of that?
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