From the category archives:

Food

The amount of water you use to boil pasta disgusts me

March 25, 2009 Food

Harold McGee (think “Alton Brown before there was Alton Brown”) writes what would seem a blasphemous article about cooking pasta using less water, a change which he estimates would result in “saving 250,000 to 500,000 barrels of oil.”
I’ve chided relations on occassion for not using enough cooking water for pasta, without ever really knowing why [...]

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VIA Chicago

March 19, 2009 Food

Thoughtful review of the new Starbucks VIA instant coffee from Dan Benjamin:
Hivelogic – Starbucks VIA Review: Just Stir and Enjoy?.
Despite my joking around about it, I agree with Dan. It’s pretty good. Not the best cup of coffee I’ve ever had, but so much better than the instant coffee I remember my parents used to [...]

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Now that’s a secret ingredient

March 10, 2009 Food

I really like Cat Cora, so seeing her name in a headline would typically grab my attention. Seeing her name in a headline like the following definitely grabs my attention:
Iron Chef Cat Cora And Wife Both Pregnant.
Good on ya, ladies.

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Cooking: humanity’s ‘killer app’”?

February 22, 2009 Food

As reported in The Economist, Harvard’s Richard Wrangham has a theory that “cooking and other forms of preparing food are humanity’s ‘killer app’”:
Cooking is a human universal. No society is without it. No one other than a few faddists tries to survive on raw food alone. And the consumption of a cooked meal in the [...]

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“Food Matters,” Mark Bittman | Salon Books

January 5, 2009 Food

Must. Buy. Bought.
Mark Bittman’s revolutionary “Food Matters” is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better — and save the planet.

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