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May 9, 2012
The New York Times Announces Meat-Ethics Essay Contest Winners
Last month, The New York Times' Ariel Kaminer announced an essay contest in the paper's op-ed section: Carnivorous readers must defend, in 600 words or less, why it is ethical to eat meat. Entries were judged by some of the foremost authorities of modern food practices including Peter Singer, Michae ... More >>
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May 7, 2012
James Beard 2012 Award Winners
The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>
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May 2, 2012
The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>
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April 9, 2012
Majority of Californians Support Soda Tax
Three out of five California voters would support a special tax on soda and soft drinks to fight childhood obesity, according to a new Field Poll. New data collected as part of the Field-The California Endowment Childhood Obesity Prevention Survey found that 48% of participants cited unhealthy eat ... More >>
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March 29, 2012
Food News Roundup: Farmers Challenge Monsanto, Sous-Vide Cocktails Possible Bourdain Book Deal for Marilyn Hagerty
Reuters: Organic farmers vow to continue challenging Monsanto's patents on genetically modified seeds, defying a court that ruled no controversy exists. Food Arts: Julian Cox, and others, are using sous-vide for cocktails. Call it "flash brew." Grand Forks Herald: A book deal with Anthony Bourdain ... More >>
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March 21, 2012
The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Newspaper Food Stories
You can't replace the feeling of lounging on the couch with a scrunched-up newspaper. But with the web, at least you don't need to worry about getting ink on your hands and bagel. Here's a roundup of some food-related stories from our country's newspapers this week. Lucky for us, it's mostly free. F ... More >>
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March 14, 2012
Quorn: The Questionable Joys of Faux Meat
Fake chicken products were the subject of a piece by Mark Bittman in this past Sunday's New York Times, in which he described one faux meat, known by the brand name, Quorn, as "pretty appealing in some instances." While the name Quorn conjures up images of the charming English village for which it's ... More >>
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February 27, 2012
Salma Hayek's Got Milk Campaign Top 5 Easy Breakfast Ideas
Recently, actress Salma Hayek was announced as the latest celebrity to be milk-mustached by the Milk Processor Education Program, otherwise known as the "Got Milk" people. Hayek's ads will promote the new The Breakfast Project campaign, which touts milk as key to a good breakfast. In the commercial, ... More >>
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February 23, 2012
Q & A With Gabfest Host Stephen Metcalf: Who Won the Great Granola Off, Secret Recipes, Cereal Reverse Engineering Why Granola Is NOT Bathroom Patchouli
Since Monday, after you read our conversation with Andy Bowers, executive producer of Slate's Culture Gabfest podcast, you've probably been wondering, "Who won the Granola Off competition?" The answer is not Gabfest host Stephen Metcalf. How do we know this? First of all we listened to the podca ... More >>
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October 21, 2011
Trader Joe's Tomato Protest Today in Monrovia
Top: Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Bottom: Guzzle & NoshWorkers protest Trader Joe's tomato policies.A one-cent per-pound increase in the price of tomatoes may not mean much to most consumers, but to many of the workers who pick these tomatoes -- a physically exhausting job with no health b ... More >>
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October 6, 2011
Accessories for Keeping Your iPad Out of the Chicken Stock
The only thing that has stopped us from buying an iPad -- besides lack of money -- is our paranoid fear that we'll use it in the kitchen and accidentally knock it into the simmering pot of chicken stock. Or helplessly smudge it with flour-dusted fingerprints. Or absentmindedly put the milk in the ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Sam Sifton Steps Down As New York Times Restaurant Critic
New York Timesthe anonymous (?) restaurant criticAfter two years as restaurant critic for The New York Times, Sam Sifton is getting a new table. As he tweeted this morning, "I'm stepping down as restaurant critic to be the national editor of The Times. #checkplease." Sifton, who replaced Fr ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
What's In Season at the Farmers Markets: Heirloom Tomatoes Peaking
Felicia FriesemaHeirloom varieties on display at the Good Food Festival kick off celebration for the 30th anniversary of the Santa Monica Farmers Market. We're currently smack dab in the middle of what has been a pretty enjoyable tomato season. Last year, it seemed like everyone was experien ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
Happy 100th Birthday, Lucy: Lucille Ball's Chocolate Conveyor Belt Moment
Thanks to YouTube and The New York Times' @SamSifton for a reminder of this one, the classic I Love Lucy candy wrapping episode. Lucille Ball would have turned 100 years old on August 6th, and even in black & white, she's still funnier than pretty much anybody else. If you want to try this at home ... More >>
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July 25, 2011
Food News Roundup: Adrià Games, How To Throw A Pie Taxing Bad Food
-- Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables. Or so says Mark Bittman. [The New York Times] -- The El Bulli dish-name generator. [Slate] -- Modern beans on toast. [Rancho Gordo] -- Paradise by the dashboard light -- can you bake cookies in a car? [Off the Clock, via food52] -- Marion Nestle ... More >>
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July 15, 2011
Ten Things to Cook During Carmageddon
Susan ParkBibimbap Plating by Lisa Gilliam You either planned ahead or you didn't for feeding yourself during carmageddon. If you're a planner, this weekend is perfect for making dishes that take all day or even two days. If you're not a planner, well, clean out your pantry and refrigerator t ... More >>
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June 6, 2011
Food News Roundup: Somebody Really Hates Pie, Stumptown Sold More Fun in School Cafeterias
-- In which Slate's Nathan Heller goes off on pie. Yes, pie is un-American and well, just generally terrible. Maybe somebody needs a better pie recipe. [Slate] -- Stumptown Coffee sold to a New York investment firm. [WW] -- Dorie Greenspan wins IACP best cookbook award. (Heller might want to try ... More >>
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May 12, 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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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 29, 2010
And Now, A Brief (Retweeted) Message From Mark Bittman
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December 27, 2010
Best 2010 "Diet" Cookbook That Isn't A Diet Book: Mark Bittman's Food Matters
Diet may be a four letter word on a food blog, but eventually too much bacon really does catch up to you (or so we're told, as we have yet to reach our limit). But as it is perilously close to the New Year's resolution hour, we have been looking back on 2010, and the large amounts of cured me ... More >>
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December 7, 2010
Web Surfing: A Roundup of News from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond
-- The Unbearable Heaviness of Cookbooks. [Zester Daily] -- The joy of cooking squirrel. [The Ethicurean] -- Today's federal programs make you long for the Depression. [Mark Bittman] -- Seriously, What Is Up With These Pistachio Ads? [Grub Street] -- Divorce Cakes: 10 Outrageous Confections. [Hu ... More >>
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December 2, 2010
And Now, A Brief Message From Mark Bittman
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November 17, 2010
We Are Fat, Starving, and Can't All Be Mark Bittman: Or, Hunger Levels at a 15-Year High
N. GalutenChili cheese dog Yes, we are a big country with many different people -- but there is something wrong when we are both fat and hungry. CNN is citing a federal report telling us that U.S. hunger levels continue to be at a 15-year high. Why 15 years? Because that's as long as the Depa ... More >>
Eat+Drink
November 4, 2010
Cooking With the Critic
And Marion Cunningham, Alice Waters, Rick Bayless et al.
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November 2, 2010
Gunshots & Tweets: Mark Bittman's L.A. Moment
Want a thumbnail sketch of life in Los Angeles? Read the following Twitter exchange between Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and prolific cookbook author, and Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet and, well, you know who she is. Seems that when Bittman was in town last week to give a talk at t ... More >>
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November 2, 2010
Ask Mr. Gold: Cooking With the Critic, Or The Top 10 Most Battered Cookbooks in Jonathan Gold's Kitchen
Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: Do you always eat out? Do you ever eat at home? Do you have any cookbooks that you use a great deal? Just curious. −Maggs, Mar Vista Dear Maggs: Actually, I cook kind of a lot. A weird amount. I'm the guy who cooks red beans and rice ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Bittman At The Skirball Tonight: Food Matters, Et. Al.
markbittman.com When cookbook author Mark Bittman shows up tonight, October 26th, for a discussion and book signing at the Skirball Cultural Center, he's likely to be a walking, talking endorsement for his new book, The Food Matters Cookbook: 500 Revolutionary Recipes for Better Living. Sin ... More >>
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October 18, 2010
Cookbook Review: Mark Bittman's Food Matters Cookbook -- Because It Does Matter
That Mark Bittman has cooked pretty much everything during his career is what has made him a household name (at least among New York Times subscribers). When he proclaimed that
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September 30, 2010
Now Downloading: Mario Batali, Cook's Illustrated & Salsa-Making Apps
iTunes Whether you've got an iPhone, iPad, a Droid or a Blackberry, the application marketplace is an ever-growing beast of super-sized proportions. Especially when it comes to cooking programs. In the past we've shared the professional chefs' favorite apps, baker and blogger David Lebovitz' ... More >>
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September 16, 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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May 27, 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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May 6, 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 23, 2010
A Brief History of North America, in Coca-Cola Ads
It's an anniversary of sorts for Coca-Cola. 25 years ago today the soft drink giant launched New Coke, a product that the company hoped would help them win the Cola Wars. It was an unmitigated disaster. People hated it, and quickly began hoarding cases of the original Coke. They staged protests, fil ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Must Have Kitchen Tool? The Celebrity Chef iPhone App
Brooke Burton The list of necessary kitchen utensils - whisk, wooden spoon, fish spatula, immersion circulator, nitrogen canister - now seems to include an iPhone. Because now not only must the celebrity chef have the de rigueur stack of cookbooks and (ideally) a reality television show, but ... 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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February 15, 2010
Mark Bittman Weighs in on Soda: How Not to Drink Everything?
Is soda the new tobacco? New York Times food writer and cookbook author Mark Bittman asks the question in an article in the NYT yesterday. And he's got a very compelling case. Bittman points out that nationally we consume 50 gallons of the stuff per person each year, a ridiculous level that appears ... More >>
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January 6, 2010
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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November 25, 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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November 20, 2009
A Conversation with Baker Jim Lahey His Recipe for No-Knead Bread
Sarah GoodfriendBaker Jim LaheyBaker Jim Lahey, owner of New York's Sullivan Street Bakery and author of the recently published cookbook My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method, was in town the other day on a brief 2 day leg of his current book tour. He sat down with us to talk a ... More >>
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March 12, 2009
Adventures With Frozen Sperm
Sarah GoodfriendBaker Jim LaheyBaker Jim Lahey, owner of New York's Sullivan Street Bakery and author of the recently published cookbook My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method, was in town the other day on a brief 2 day leg of his current book tour. He sat down with us to talk a ... More >>

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