The Seattle Times: Food & wine:
Ruth Reichl has lived and cooked on both coasts, written for two of the top newspapers in the country and coproduced a popular public-TV show celebrating the art of cooking. She also presided as editor-in-chief of Gourmet magazine for the past 10 years. Recently, she's traveled across America to suss out the best of regiona (Read More)
Culinate Main Feed:
Earlier this week, the BBC reported on a new study that showed a correlation between depression and processed foods:Eating a diet high in processed food increases the risk of depression, research suggests.What is more, people who ate plenty of vegetables, fruit and fish actually had a lower risk of depression, the Universit (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider: Advertising:
Designing a logo is like cooking a plate of food. Many ingredients come together and with testing you can end up with something really tasty. Good logos are unique but simple in form, practical but interesting. Good logos create emotions and associations for customers.Here are the steps to design a logo >>Join the conversat (Read More)
FitSugar -- Healthy, happy you.:
Take a peek into my kitchen cabinet for a healthy eating tip. If you can't tell from the picture those are jars with chalkboard labels. I've been using them for almost a year now and for two good reasons: health and money.I love nuts but find that it can be easy to eat too many at one sitting. I use the chalkboard labels to (Read More)
FitSugar -- Healthy, happy you.:
It wasn't until I had kids that I realized the importance of between meal snacks for keeping the crankies at bay. These days I have fully embraced snacks as part of my food plan, and since my snacks are similar to what I feed my girls, I am eating healthy foods. Most days I have a snack between breakfast and lunch - a piece (Read More)
Submitted by Bensays
from Google Reader:
Stephanie Yap is a sub-editor for the Life! section of the Straits Times. She was also one of the 12 writers invited to join the recent Ubin writing retreat.Last week she wrote an article in Life! about the experience. I'm posting the article here, as a little souvenir from the trip. ST Oct 29, 2009Ubin for inspirationNo TV (Read More)
Serious Eats:
From Recipes [Photographs: Chichi Wang]The memorable meals in our lives take place in the presence of friends and family. Dishes we cook for those we love leave indelible impressions in our minds, like culinary timestamps. Even so, I eat some of my best meals when I'm alone in the kitchen, cooking something I've honed (Read More)
CHOW: The Grinder:
On November 3, the Food Network’s new Wii game, Cook or Be Cooked, is scheduled for release. Though Eat Me Daily says the game appears to be a rejiggered version of Cooking Mama, Tracey John, a self-professed “terrible cook” at Wired, kinda got into it: “Most of the motion gameplay involved a lot of shaking controllers to m (Read More)
Submitted by Todd
from Google Reader:
Green Papaya Deli's namesake. Photo by Rudy R. In July, I was working on a feature article about Lao food in East Oakland for the food section of a major Bay Area daily newspaper. In very early August, a few weeks after I'd finished the first round of interviews, I found out that newspaper's food section was merging entire (Read More)
MediaShift:
The murder happened in the kitchen with a laptop.That possible explanation for the death of Gourmet magazine sounds like a solution from the game Clue. The 68-year-old food magazine met its end this month when publisher Condé Nast cut it and two other magazines. Some blamed Gourmet's demise on the Internet and its theft of (Read More)
Culinate Main Feed:
You may already know about Cooking Up a Story, the Oregon-based Web site that features farmers, food activists, journalists, and other experts — on film. This week, just in time for Halloween, CUPS cooks up advice from a farmer about how to prepare fresh pumpkins for eating. Keep in mind, jack-o-lantern pumpkins don’t cut i (Read More)
Submitted by Ivorkellock
from Google Reader:
Having made a startling movie which has changed the way people think about what’s on their dinner plate, Charles Clover and the End of the Line team have now turned their attentions to restaurants which are still serving endangered fish.A survey of more than 100 top restaurants conducted for their new guide, fish2fork.com, (Read More)
Submitted by Shayna
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Some will balk at their flavor and size. Many will have texture issues. And still others just won’t enjoy the farting.But know this: there are few cheaper, healthier, and more versatile foods than the humble bean. Members of the legume family, beans can be found everywhere from gourmet restaurants to campfire cauldrons. The (Read More)
Submitted by Nlnnet
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I pause before I write this. A long pause. Ok. This may sound corny, because it is, really, but I was inspired by a movie. The movie “Julie & Julia” inspired this blog. Not because I like to write. I’m not much of a writer (you’re already falling asleep…I’m falling asleep!) And it has nothing to do with food. But when I saw (Read More)
CHOW: The Grinder:
San Francisco chefs are pissed. One week after Momofuku’s David Chang said that in San Francisco “There’s only a handful of restaurants that are manipulating food,” and that “every restaurant in San Francisco is serving figs on a plate with nothing on it,” the Asia Society of San Francisco has canceled a forthcoming Chang b (Read More)