Eater LA Gets Bitten by Potentially Libelous Post
There was something of a firestorm in local food blog land yesterday, after the blog Eater LA posted a take-down of a local restaurant in the form of a blind post.
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There was something of a firestorm in local food blog land yesterday, after the blog Eater LA posted a take-down of a local restaurant in the form of a blind post.
...Security forces in India have a plan to put chile powder in their hand grenades, according to a report last week by Reuters. Not just any chile either: no lame cayenne or ancho weapons for a country that grows the hottest chile peppers in the world.
...Ah, the joys of marketing junk food. Got some extra bits of dough at your mammoth fast food chain? Fry them up, dip them in frosting and hold a naming contest. Fiat revenue.
...It's been a bad day for cultural icons. And it's been a bad year for, well, most everything. I don't know about you, but about all I want to do right now is go home and read Marcella Hazan under a blanket.
...If the Iran elections didn't get you signed up on Twitter, then maybe Top Chef can. (No comment about anyone's priorities here.) Or more specifically, maybe Ludo can.
...Even if you're not a Stephen King fan, you've got to admit that cornfields are creepy. Crop circles. Kevin Costner wandering between the rows with a baseball bat. But unless you fled an Iowa childhood, it's not the corn itself that's the problem, but what it's processed into. High fructose corn syrup has been charged with contributing to childhood obesity, diabetes, kidney and heart disease, and vilified by food guru Michael Pollan as environmentally disastrous and for being, well, not food. Now studies show that HFCS could be tainted with mercury.
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