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A Banana Just Sold For $120,000 (No, Really)
The 2020 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog
Merry, merry! It's time for the annual edition of the Hater's Guide to the Williams-Sonoma Catalog.
Still counting . . .
Still Counting Baluts
What’s a “Pantry Staple”?: True Stories from the Cluelessly Quarantined
Since my social media handle is "pantrycooking", guess I'm the one to post this.
What US food critics could learn from the UK (and vice versa, I guess …)
" . . . But we do that job very differently. 'US critics write as if they are the inheritors of the mantle of Tom Wolfe or Hemingway,' says Giles Coren, who reviews for the Times in the UK. 'They g...
SNL Heimlich Poster Skit
The penultimate skit of last nights SNL was strange and kind of funny. A couple (Scarlet Johanssen / Bowen Yang) nervously walk into a restaurant. When they get to the bar we then find out they a...
First do no harm
Just saw this last night. One of the most painful things I've read. Here's a preview: "My landlord needed to fix the sink handle or something and asked if I had a knife, then proceeded to grab m...
Ali Wong's Guide to Asian Restaurants
A Guide to Asian Restaurants, by Ali Wong Excerpted to The Vulture, October 2019 The following is an excerpt from Ali Wong’s new book, Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for...
FAQ Your New Cursed Instant Pot
For all you new Instant Pot owners . . .
Bok Bok (SNL)
A couple of days ago SNL had a commercial parody of a fast food chicken restaurant called Bok Bok. As it turns out it mascot looks like Momo, a disturbing internet meme. It was kind of funny in a...
Seth Meyers Gets Drunk with Ina Garten
Enjoyed the taste test bit. "Are you too good for Arby's?"
Doctors Recommend Donuts as Safe Alternative to Romaine Lettuce
" . . . Instead doctors suggest substituting donuts for romaine. Safe varieties include jelly-filled, custard, glazed, cake, chocolate long john, powdered, Boston creme, sprinkled, and maple bacon....
Make America Eat Again, Oct 13, San Francisco
Make America Eat Again, The Art of the Meal Oct 13 Near Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco Only 16 tickets remaining at this moment My friend and extraordinary chef, Andrea Rappaport, is hosti...
It's time to reconsider low-dairy diets, new study suggests
" . . . The researchers found the consumption of any kind of dairy to be associated with a 2 percent lower risk of death from any cause, while the consumption of a dairy diet of mostly cheese was a...
Jokes Only Chowhounds Get...
Showed this to my dude today and he was like, "What's a Mallard reaction?"
Supreme Court's Cafeteria Committee Duty
An amusing read in these un-fun political times.
Best (Funniest? Wittiest?) Food Quotes
"Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive." - P.J. O'Rourke
This Pastry Chef Turns His Desserts Into Miniature Scenes
A young Italian pastry chef creates amusing food-as-"landscape" scenes and posts them on Instagram. He's inspired by Christopher Boffoli. (If you haven't seen Boffoli's book "Big Appetites: Tiny Pe...
Our own take on ketchup . . .
This piece expresses (and amplifies) how I feel nearly every time a restaurant serves me housemade ketchup. ". . . it comes with our signature house-made ketchup. That’s right. The ketchup here ...
Minnesotans don't or won't take the last bite
Lifted from https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/51sytf/most_minnesotan_pan_of_bars_ever/?st=it4dc6a7&sh=5fd3531d We Minnesotans are an odd lot.
The French Guy in an Office Does a Blind Taste Test (Video)
I enjoyed this one as it had a little bit more at stake than your average YouTube taste test video.