Posts under ‘Food News’

Weekends exist for one purpose and one purpose only: food battles. What can I say … I’m slightly competitive. The latest showdown was of cow-sized proportions, as my friend Jay (yep, the Jay of Recessipe fame) and I went tong-to-tong in Battle Burger.
We sauteed. We grilled. We toasted. We conquered.
Weeks of planning elapsed in minutes [...]

iPhone Food Scanner App? Bought it the day it was released. Edges Only Brownie Pan? I have two. Infrared Turkey Fryer? Been there, done that. But a Digital Fabricator, Robotic Chef and Virtuoso Mixer? Now you’ve got my attention!
Cornucopia: Concept Designs for a Digital Gastronomy is the latest line of products conceptualized by Marcelo Coelho, [...]

The third annual Summer Fest is here! I am delighted to have been invited to join a group of food bloggers from across the country to dish on the season’s peak produce for Summer Fest 2010. Fellow foodies from the likes of Food2, A Way to Garden, Devour and more will be blogging each Wednesday [...]

As a child I used to read through my mom’s endless countertop cookbook collection, flipping through page after page of Giada’s and Ina’s latest creations. And while my tiny New York City kitchen reached its maximum book occupancy long ago, I recently made room for one more - a personalized cookbook detailing my 40 or [...]

Main Entry: dough·nut
Variant(s): also do·nut
Function: noun
Date: circa 1809
1 : a small usually ring-shaped cake fried in fat
2 : something (as a mathematical torus) that resembles a doughnut especially in shape
Forget the second definition. Today, our nation is honoring the golden glazed glory that are doughnuts. Many of you know about my love, and by love I [...]

And so it ends. Six hundred fifty hours. One hundred ten lessons. Zero major cuts. Countless burns.
The crowning of a toque signaled the end to my six-month culinary school journey at The Institute of Culinary Education. And while graduating from any experience can be bittersweet, I am thankful to have captured every julienne, every sauté [...]

One hundred seventy-one days ago I learned how to hold a chef’s knife for the first time. It felt heavy and awkward and eerily dangerous. I remember dicing vegetables during the first few weeks of school and thinking, “Holy canoli, I’m going to lose an appendage here.” Not a finger. An appendage.
I’m three lessons away [...]

Up your Easter sugar rush with the following list of Peeped-out crafts and creations for ‘mallow lovers of all ages and adventure levels.
ReciPeeps:

Because everything tastes better fried: Deep-Fried Peeps
An Easter update on a campfire classic: S’Meeps
A sweet and tangy twist: Lemon Peeps de Crème
Soup up the sugar content with a ‘mallow topper: Cupcake Peeps
A savory [...]

One day. Three bakeries. Five miles. Nine doughnuts. Welcome to The 2010 Just a Taste Doughnuthon.
I know what you’re thinking, “This girl needs to get a life.” But I’ve lived in New York City for almost two years now, and I still have yet to find a jaw-dropping, fancily frosted, circuitous ‘nut-o-perfection that leaves an [...]

I sped through Frank Bruni’s latest novel Born Round faster than a chocolate-dipped cone at Dairy Queen. One minute I’m flipping open the cover, and the next thing I know my eyes are glancing over the final words of this shockingly realistic portrayal of a man and his relationship with food. And while I realize [...]