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Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Hair loss, cookbooks, fat people, meat chessboard, fashion

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- Losing hair? (Isn't everyone?) Don't try to hide it. - Ask MeFi : What are the best cookbooks in regards to technique and theor...
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Friday, December 01, 2006

Culinary Metaphor Watch: Golden Globes Edition

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Yes! GG hopeful Helen Mirren is a leafy green vegetable that might kill you! Or so Variety might like you to think. This image came in a...
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Thursday, November 30, 2006

I'm blogging

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- YouTube so funny. via - 20-sided pecan pie . via - Like Flickr, but without the photos . via - I am sick of boring food blogs . This is ...
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Monday, November 20, 2006

This lobster is huge!

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Does WG Sinclair exist? He has reviewed three products for Amazon. The review that caught my eye was for a colossal ten-pound New England...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Coq au Vin

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This pair of birds is a before-and-after like the venison rolls , and from the same source. Same moody lighting, same approach to framing a...
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Friday, November 10, 2006

Orange Trifle

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This image is so simply orangey-perfect that my words could not possibly add to its power. Photo credited to Sunkist Growers, Inc. June Cr...
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Culinary Metaphor Watch

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In the Nov. 13 New Yorker , Rebecca Mead reviews Alex Kuczynski's Beauty Junkies , a "memoir-exposé" about cosmetic surgery. O...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

"An assortment of international cheeses"

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Since this photo has only the caption in the title above, we are left to play Name That Cheese. The ones in packaging help us out (Breaksto...
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Sunday, November 05, 2006

"The seven basic ways of preparing fish"

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If this image from the original (1961) edition of The New York Times Cookbook had been captioned "the basic ways of serving fish...
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Friday, November 03, 2006

Béchamel sauce

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Some might regard this as the triumph of tasteful over tasty. Perhaps this includes my new friends from Epifurious , who share my interest ...
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Thursday, November 02, 2006

Penguins

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These Penguin paperbacks published in 1975 (Grigson, Fish Cookery ) and 1969 (Hanbury-Tenison, Soups and Hors d'Oeuvres ) might at firs...
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Wednesday, November 01, 2006

"Let the children cook..."

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The General Foods Kitchens Cookbook , written by the women of General Foods kitchens (New York: Random House, 1959), has a chatty, helpful t...
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Sunday, October 29, 2006

Introducing Vintage Retro Old-School Food Photography of Yesteryear: Venison Rolls

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I have decided to begin posting new old food photos on a regular basis, perhaps even daily. I'm not going to stop posting about other t...
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Mishmash

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-I am arriving a little late to the party, but is anything on the web better than The Show with Ze Frank ? -We are without an oven until the...
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Saturday, October 21, 2006

Am I bothering you?

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Lately I have been taking pictures of strangers in public places ( check it out ). Some people call them candids or streetshots. Some othe...
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Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Gilmore Girls for Foodies

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Lots of food in last nite's GG ep ("'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous") but none of it excited me. It felt like the writers ...
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Mustard!

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Take a look at my spicy French-style grainy mustard, shot food porn style with the macro setting on and the camera practically touching the ...
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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Gilmore Girls for Foodies

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Emily Gilmore returns to prime-time after a cruel summer-plus-two-episode absence to do what she does best: make her daughter Lorelai feel b...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Answers to questions you didn't ask

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-Is there a frying pan that takes up less space? A roll-up frying pan saves you those precious cubic centimeters. Now if they can come up...
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Friday, October 06, 2006

Edible clichés

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I still do prepare meals, you know. Like today, I made fried rice with leftover beef stew. The beef had been cooked in red wine but it wen...
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