Eat Different
November 29th, 2007 — article, food crimes
By Steven A. Shaw in Slate Magazine
Copyright protection is weak when it comes to recipes. The U.S. Copyright Office states, “Mere listings of ingredients as in recipes, formulas, compounds or prescriptions, are not subject to copyright protection.” Explanatory notes—like the paragraph before the recipe where the author reminisces about dinners on the family farm—are protected, but the recipe itself is not. That’s why Colonel Sanders has had to work so hard to keep his recipes a secret.
November 29th, 2007 — article, food tv
Iron Chef America’s” Cat Cora has outflambéed some of the best in the business, but the only female chef on the popular Food Network show has set her sights on one competitor in particular.”I really want to challenge Gordon Ramsay,” Cora told the Daily News. “I think that would be a good battle. He’s one of the chefs that really stands out for me. He needs to get in there and get knocked up a little bit.”
November 22nd, 2007 — article, food holidays
By Jill Hunter Pellettieri in Slate Magazine
Turkey fried rice. Turkey-mushroom casserole. Turkey dinner muffins. Turkey samosas. Turkey hash. Strawberry-turkey spinach salad. Turkey and veggie lasagna. Turkey chowder with wild rice, crimini, and pancetta. Turkey quesadilla suiza.
Turkey and veggie lasagna. Turkey and veggie lasagnaReading this list of recipes—and trust me, there are plenty more—is enough to make you want to go cold turkey on turkey.
Happy Thanksgiving, all!
November 19th, 2007 — article, dessert, pastry
Or, how to bake a four-tiered chocolate cake in one small oven, fit it into an overhead bin and then drive it over a mountain range.
November 19th, 2007 — article, wine
Almost everyone agrees that a little Brett is not a bad thing. It’s generally less of a problem in white wines, and at low levels it can give some red wines cedar, tobacco or cigar-box aromas, scents frequently used to describe Cabernet Sauvignon and generally thought of as pleasant. It also mutes some of the fruitiness of youth, making the wine seem more mature and complex, at least in the short term.In other wines, or in greater concentrations, the smell becomes more leathery and animal-like, evoking adjectives such as horsey, wet horse blanket or sweaty saddle. Although some people can enjoy these smells, many find them unattractive.
At their worst, Brett aromas turn medicinal, reminding many tasters of the inside of a metal Band-Aid box. The animal scents get funkier, more barnyard-y.
November 18th, 2007 — article, recipe
Nothing illustrates the interweaving of simple art and complex science in cooking better than homemade mayonnaise. One of the classic sauces of French cuisine, mayonnaise is nothing more than tiny droplets of oil suspended in a matrix of egg yolk and water, with a dash of lemon and a pinch of mustard to add flavor and structural stability.
Check out the entire series on basics, from Blanching to Skinning an onion
November 15th, 2007 — article, chefs, restaurant
via SFgate (San Francisco Chronical)
Craigslist has dozens of help-wanted listings from the Bay Area’s top restaurants - all vying for the dwindling numbers of experienced cooks willing to put in long, hard hours for pay that barely covers their cost of living.”They say they have all these bills and have to pay the rent, and they can’t be making $12-$13 an hour,” Lahlou said.
That crunch, plus many young cooks’ expectations of the “Top Chef” high life, are just two of the factors that may make San Francisco’s unique mix of chef-owned high-quality neighborhood restaurants a thing of the past.
November 13th, 2007 — article, chefs
BEFORE Katrina, John Besh was simply a good chef with a fancy restaurant that had a habit of making top 10 lists around the country.After Katrina, he became known as the ex-Marine who rode into the flooded city with a gun, a boat and a bag of beans and fed New Orleans until it could feed itself.
November 12th, 2007 — article, recipe, reference, video
from Rouxbe - The Recipe to Better Cooking
Cook an entire meal by multi-tasking like a chef. Use our step-by-step video player and refer to helpful tips to create the perfect Thanksgiving meal.
October 10th, 2007 — article, food crimes, food politics
In 1988, the surgeon general, C. Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. Alluding to his office’s famous 1964 report on the perils of smoking, Dr. Koop announced that the American diet was a problem of “comparable” magnitude, chiefly because of the high-fat foods that were causing coronary heart disease and other deadly ailments.
