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May 10, 2012
Researchers Test Three-Second Rule, With Mixed Results
Depending on how you were raised, food dropped onto the floor was subject to the three-second rule, the five-second rule, the one-minute rule, or the before-the-dog-gets-it rule. That homespun yarn of a law, though, may not necessarily stand up under the rigors of actual scientific research. A few ... More >>
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April 25, 2012
Brooklyn's First Food Book Fair: Books Authors Eats
The food intellectual is not a new phenomenon, but it is a new cliche. The glut of rant-prone gonzo restaurant critic bloggers, armchair sustainability experts, and urban chicken farming gurus reminds us that the importance of caring about food, where it comes from, and who makes it has soaked deep ... More >>
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March 8, 2012
Roy Choi of A-Frame and Kogi on How Cookbooks Changed His Life
The food intellectual is not a new phenomenon, but it is a new cliche. The glut of rant-prone gonzo restaurant critic bloggers, armchair sustainability experts, and urban chicken farming gurus reminds us that the importance of caring about food, where it comes from, and who makes it has soaked deep ... More >>
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February 17, 2012
Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 3
Okay, it's not out just yet, but it's good to get advance warning for some things. (Obama traffic, windstorms, certain NBA point guards.) On March 13th, the third issue of Lucky Peach hits the stands and kitchen counter tops and behind tsukemen bars (where Ikemen keeps theirs). Lucky Peach, ... More >>
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November 15, 2011
Read This Now: Lucky Peach Issue 2
If your tonkotsu-stained pages of the first issue of Lucky Peach are no longer functioning reasonably well and you're tired of ramen (okay, right), you can get over to your nearest applicable bookstore (or Momofuku restaurant or Whole Foods) and buy a copy of the new food-as-lit magazine. T ... More >>
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October 17, 2011
Cookbook Of The Week: Alton Brown's Good Eats 3 Is Really Good Nostalgic Eats
amazonAlton Brown's just-released Good Eats 3: The Later Years is, as we are told on the front jacket flap, The End. Per Brown: "Everyone knows that part three is the end (unless, of course, you're Bond or Potter), and expectations run high." Yes, after ten years of watching Brown investiga ... More >>
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September 1, 2011
Jonathan Gold Reviews L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast
amazonAlton Brown's just-released Good Eats 3: The Later Years is, as we are told on the front jacket flap, The End. Per Brown: "Everyone knows that part three is the end (unless, of course, you're Bond or Potter), and expectations run high." Yes, after ten years of watching Brown investiga ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
Flickr/dubh What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Q & A With Lucky Peach's Peter Meehan: Drinking Fernet With David Chang The Food Journal As Dartboard
As you may have heard, Lucky Peach, the quarterly food journal put together by David Chang (Momofuku), Peter Meehan and the folks at Zero Point Zero Production (No Reservations) and published by McSweeney's, debuted yesterday. Ramen. Anthony Bourdain. Ruth Reichl. Harold McGee. More than enou ... More >>
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June 23, 2011
Lucky Peach: The New Food Journal From David Chang & Friends Is Here
Lucky Peach, the food quarterly from Momofuku's David Chang, debuted yesterday. It's an enormous amount of fun, as you would expect, kind of like Grand Street crossed with No Reservations. This makes sense once you run down the list of contributors: Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Ruth Reichl ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
Jonathan Gold Reviews Noodle Boy
Lucky Peach, the food quarterly from Momofuku's David Chang, debuted yesterday. It's an enormous amount of fun, as you would expect, kind of like Grand Street crossed with No Reservations. This makes sense once you run down the list of contributors: Anthony Bourdain, Harold McGee, Ruth Reichl ... More >>
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June 9, 2011
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
Flickr/dubh What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free), it's where most of ... More >>
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May 16, 2011
Cookbook Review: Heavy Metal Mosh Potatoes An Alice Cooper-Worthy Snack Recipe
There are those cookbooks -- an awful lot of them in recent Food Network years, it seems -- that you pick up and immediately set back down. Then you scout for something of substance to pick up by, say, Diana Kennedy or Harold McGee, to pretend that momentary Rachel Ray EVOO moment never happe ... More >>
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May 13, 2011
Test Kitchen: Horse Fat? The New Perfect French Fries
Farid ZadiNew Perfect French Fries No one knows who invented French fries, although most food experts agree that deep fried potato strips were almost certainly invented in Belgium or France. There is a popular internet meme about a Belgian journalist who allegedly documented the existence of ... More >>
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May 9, 2011
2011 James Beard Media Award Winners
It's a case of local boy makes good -- make that two local boys -- at this year's James Beard Awards. Our own Jonathan Gold won the MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award while Patrick Kuh of Los Angeles magazine won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award. In the first ever ... More >>
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March 8, 2011
2011 IACP Finalists Announced
The IACP, which would be the International Association of Culinary Professionals and not the International Association of Chiefs of Police -- which comes up first on a Google search, proving maybe that cops can SEO better than writers -- yesterday announced the finalists for both the 2011 Coo ... More >>
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December 21, 2010
Best 2010 Food Reference Books: Salted The Encyclopedia Of Jewish Foods
Your New Low Sodium DietDo we really need another food reference book in today's Wikipedia-driven media era? Absolutely -- at least if you're the sort who appreciates well-researched studies by folks who have spent years exploring a single subject (rather than minutes skimming the Internet). ... More >>
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November 18, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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November 8, 2010
Harold McGee's New Book A Chat With the Expert On Food And Cooking Wednesday
Harold McGee's books are a bit like salt - they always seem to be just what you need. The king of food science long before molecular gastronomy was an everyday word has published a new book, Keys to Good Cooking: A Guide to Making the Best of Foods and Recipes. And yes, it's as fantastic as h ... More >>
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October 25, 2010
And Now, A Brief Message From Harold McGee (P.S. That's Right Now)
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July 29, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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July 1, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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June 14, 2010
Plate Spinning: Listings From the Past Week
Some food for thought from local, national and international news sources from this past week: -- Should I Move to France? (28 Questions to Ask Yourself) [David Lebovitz] -- Wendy's pulls disco CD from kid's meals because of "racy" Donna Summer lyrics. So now they can just go home and listen to ... More >>
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June 10, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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April 19, 2010
How To Download Everything: Mark Bittman's New iPhone App
If your tattered, sauce stained copy of Mark Bittman's encyclopedic (by definition) cookbook, How To Cook Everything, is just too big and wont to drop its pages for you to cart around to the grocery store, you're in luck. Now you can just flip through the digital equivalent of Bittman's 5-pou ... More >>
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April 15, 2010
The Thursday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections mid-week. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is free ... More >>
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January 27, 2010
A Q & A With LOU Chef D.J. Olsen: Cooking For Wine People, Trading Music For Food & The Secret Cult of the Midwest
To get to LOU wine bar, you must drive slightly further east on Melrose than you might expect, past the food corridor of the as-yet-reopened Hatfield's and the happy complex that is Mozza and the technically masterful food of Providence, to a nondescript strip mall off of Vine. You must spot the mal ... More >>
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December 2, 2009
The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories
SapphireBlue22stack of newspapersWhat's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>
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October 9, 2009
Evan Kleiman's Good Food Program Tomorrow: Gold & Parsons on the Demise of Gourmet
Anyone who's been downing Eric Alperin's violet-scented cocktails to cope with living in a post-Gourmet world should get up at least by 11 tomorrow morning and turn on the radio. On KCRW's Good Food program, Evan Kleiman will be discussing the demise of the much-loved magazine with the Weekly's Jona ... More >>

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