Amy Scattergood

Fojol Bros. of Merlindia; Credit: GQ.com

GQ's 10 Best Food Trucks in America: The Bandwagon Rolls On

Amy Scattergood
So GQ, the glossy magazine of mens style and perpetual home, it seems, of Derek Jeter, has published their list of "10 Best Food Trucks in America." The bandwagon rolls inexorably on, and although food trucks are a great, cheap way to eat these days--eclectic and creative and happily peripatetic--one......
Caution: film festival food; Credit: Photo credit: Rivera

Rivera Sponsors Downtown Film Festival + New Late Night Menu

Amy Scattergood
The Downtown Film Festival starts today, with John Sedlar's restaurant Rivera (also downtown) as the festival's restaurant sponsor. To mark the event, Rivera has a special 3 course prix fixe menu (for $40) available starting tonight. You can watch trailers for the Festival's movies on the restaurant's "illusion monitors" (drink......
Milking camels for chocolate; Credit: REUTERS/Steve Crisp

Camelicious: Dubai Chocolatier Makes Camels' Milk Chocolates

Amy Scattergood
If those bars of Valrhona Manjari 64% and Noir 85% from Michel Cluizel are seeming passé, you might want to try Al Nassma Chocolate, a Dubai-made confection which is the first brand of chocolate made with camels' milk. Hand-milked camels' milk no less, from the camel farm Camelicious, which is......
Roll up your sleeves; Credit: Photo credit: Amy Scattergood

Food Games: ID Your Burger

Amy Scattergood
Thanks for playing last week's first installment of Food Games, in which we asked you to ID a burger. For those who answered the Umami burger, you were right. Soon you'll have two more Umami locations to order one; lucky you. So here's another test: where's this burger from? It......
Bag of flour; Credit: Photo credit: Kaschua

Flour Wars: A Flour Primer, No Product ID Test Required

Amy Scattergood
When I was in culinary school we were given product ID tests, and the most difficult one, by far, was a flour test orchestrated by the baking instructors during the second round of baking classes. Repeating rows of mis en place cups were lined across the steel prep tables, each......