19 Feb 2008
by ryanin Food, Made Me Laugh, NOLA Tags: Anthony Bourdain, awards, Food, NOLA, sarcasm
…or why I think Anthony Bourdain is the coolest chef/host/dude on TV.
THE DOUCHEBAG
For the best example of twisted, repressed, or compromised “I’d rather be making lemon bundt cake with My Cat, Mr. Mufflesworth” journalist who actually HATES food and hates the people who make food even more
Nominees: Alan Richman for taking a big Dump on New Orleans at the worst possible time. And for his totally disingenuous piece on celebrity chefs not being behind the stove when Alan chooses to dine;
(Reference material: The hit job in question, Time-Picayune article on same)
Check out the other nominees. I think The Doucebag (the Doucey?) is all wrapped up already, so tune or surf in Friday for the other winners.
The 2008 Golden Clog Nominees Announced!
11 Jan 2008
by ryanin Food
It’s Parkers Family Farms Peanut Butter. Or, so claims Dave Pell. Good luck finding it in Michigan though. Where’s the closest Wal-Mart?
27 Nov 2007
by ryanin Food
a collection of simple network graphs illustrating how the flavor components of 250 different food products relate to each other, as a tool to inspire the creation of original recipes.
Very interesting idea sent to me by a co-worker. The site is a little light on how the flavors were paired (or I may have missed that in my 45 seconds of skimming), but something to come back to and look at in detail.
FOODPAIRING
10 Oct 2007
by ryanin Food, Restaurants, Uhm... yeah
Because it’s not authentic until some crappy American franchise does it.
Isn’t that like Bennigan’s trying to get into Ireland?
Oh, damn, that already happened. Erm, hmm… Mongolian Grill in Mongolia? Damn it.
Let’s go big. Beer in Jesusland? Crap.
I give up.
18 Sep 2007
by ryanin Entertainment, Food
I used to be a huge fan of the Food Network. Of the very few hours I would give to TV a week, Food Network used to get a substantial amount of them. But, in the last year or so, FN has become as boring as, well, HGTV; all show and no substance. With the advent of Rachel Ray and a bevy of insipid “personalities” who couldn’t cook their way into a family diner, the Food Network has sacrificed its mantle as a cooking network to become a food entertainment network and, worse, a reality TV network (“America’s Next” + futureShowNameStr + “Star”)
The basic night is now packed with contrived competitions (cause cooking is all about head-to-heads), “celebrity” chefs rehashing the same crap they have for years, and Emeril. Props to Emeril for sticking it out this long because I can’t imagine what a soul-sucking experience it must be when the network you helped make starts tossing talent left and right.
For example, Mario Batali, the oddly fascinating Italian chef didn’t have his contract renewed by Food Network. Must have been hanging with the wrong crowd again. You know, foodies. Which leaves Alton Brown and Emeril (maybe Giada if you’re into her) as the only things worth watching. (Thanks to Ashley for the tip.)
So, my occasional Good Eats viewing will sustain me until someone figures out that what cable really needs is a cooking network. Stars will make themselves if the shows and the cooking are good. Maybe I need to pick up another season of America’s Test Kitchen on DVD. Or Anthony Bourdain could finally get to be the ultimate chef and run a network. Can you imagine?
08 May 2007
by ryanin Food, News
[Irma] Ortiz, 44, is among a group of California food-flavoring workers recently diagnosed with bronchiolitis obliterans, a rare and life-threatening form of fixed obstructive lung disease. Also known as popcorn workers lung, because it has turned up in workers at microwave-popcorn factories, the disease destroys the lungs. A transplant is the only cure.
Cripes. Time to stop buying microwave popcorn. We prefer the old-fashioned, artery-clogging version anyway.
Flavoring Suspected in Illness – washingtonpost.com [via digg]
16 Mar 2007
by ryanin Food, News
The last bottle of HP sauce has been produced in England. Don’t expect to see outrageous auctions for the bottles on eBay; parent company Heinz is moving production to the Netherlands.
Of course, this move came with a great deal of hand wringing and political posturing, with MPs attempting to get the sauce barred from Parliament cafeteria tables, because it somehow now symbolized less Britishness than before. Not that they did any of that went Heinz bought the company (from a French company who had previously bought HP) in 2005.
Wait until they find out that not everything is made where you think it should have been made.
05 Jan 2007
by ryanin Cool!, Food, Restaurants
Terrible pop-culture reference, check. Informational follow-up post, you bet.
Back in May, I wrote about Mount Desert Island Ice Cream, the best ice cream I’ve ever had. I incorrectly said in that post that they did not have a website. Linda Parker, owner of MDIIC posted a comment pointing out that, in fact, there is a website. Doh! Apparently I can’t Google as well as I thought.
You can also get MDIIC ice cream off-island; check out their locations page for a ton of restaurants and businesses where you Mainers and tourists can get yourself a sample. I highly recommend Blueberry Basil. It’s like Vosges chocolates in ice cream form.
MDIIC Home
21 Nov 2006
by ryanin Food, Signs of the Horsemen, Uhm... yeah
If all you’ve done is stick a ring through your banana bunch and hung that banana bunch from a closet rod, you are not hacking. You are being clever.
Hacking involves actually doing something to the bananas, like inserting a caller-ID unit into each banana to display incoming calls on multiple lines. You know, something that takes skill.
17 Aug 2006
by ryanin Food, Recipes, Vice
I am a Tabasco head. I have bottles everywhere; kitchen, den, work. If they made bottles for the Jeep I’d keep one there.
Which makes my discovery of Tabasco Food Service all the more surprising. How did I miss this site for years? How have I lived with my simple dashes of Tabasco on virtually every food I eat without making stuff like this?
[via this guy's LJ]
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