Posts Tagged ‘Food News’

I am on day four of my culinary arts program and not too surprisingly, I’m having the time of my life! The last few months have been spent in careful preparation for my start at The Institute of Culinary Education, and among the preparations was readying for the launch of my latest project, DICED: The [...]

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a ‘What the hell?’ attitude.”  - Julia Child
I am ecstatic to celebrate the official one year mark of the launch of Just a Taste. It’s amazing how much can change in a year, so I wanted to update you all [...]

Last night my friend Dan invited me to the first ever Manhattan Cocktail Classic held at the New York Public Library. The event celebrated the “history, contemporary culture, and artful craft of the cocktail” by featuring some of the city’s best mixologists, cocktail historians and libation lovers.
We strolled the halls of one of New [...]

The gadget gurus behind Apple’s never ending supply of iPhone applications have done it once again. Behold the iPhone FoodScanner, the ultimate technological advancement for calorie counters, food buffs and nutritional nuts everywhere.
The brainiacs at Daily Burn have introduced FoodScanner (download price: $2.99) as the first ever app that uses the iPhone’s camera to scan [...]

The Guardian’s Killian Fox just released a list of the 50 best foods in the world and where to eat them. The list includes comfort food classics like roast chicken from L’Ami Louis bistro in Paris and unbeatable milkshakes from Fosselman’s in Los Angeles. I was ecstatic to see that one of my personal favorites [...]

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Yesterday was undoubtedly a slow day in the financial sector, which created the perfect opportunity for one of Wall Street’s finest to go for the gold in the well-known “vending machine bet.” His challenge? Consume one of every item in the vending machine in an undisclosed amount of time and earn a cash reward of [...]

Upper West Side restaurants joined forces today to raise money for local hunger charities at the first ever Taste of Morningside Heights. Hundreds of students and locals feasted on hors d’oeuvres and desserts at the event, which was held at Columbia University’s Low Plaza and produced by the University-based guidebook and website Inside New York. [...]

Sounds like “cookie,” tastes like cake. But no matter what you call them, whoopie pies are all the rage. Last week the New York Times ran an article about the buttery, cake-like dessert, which first appeared in Maine and Pennsylvania’s Amish country as early as 1927. The hockey puck-sized desserts are now migrating into bakeries [...]

Happy Mardi Gras everyone! In honor of this festive day, I’ve posted a series of photographs of Eric “Badlands” Booker demonstrating his crawfish eating technique. Badlands is the world’s 13th ranked competitive eater, and he let me tag along this past weekend as he prepared for today’s House of Blues Showboat Crawfish Eating Competition in [...]