Serious Eats:
Note: Colin Parent has contributed reviews of burgers in San Diego for A Hamburger Today. Today he's taking a break from burgers to cover the San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival.[Photographs: Colin Parent]Entering its sixth year, the 2009 San Diego Bay Wine & Food Festival is an epic week-long (November 18 to 22) eating and (Read More)
Serious Eats:
From brioche ice cream sandwiches to duck tacos, the Los Angeles street food scene is vibrant. A few friends decided to hop around the city with a camera and hit six popular trucks: Barbie's Q (barbecue), Lomo Arigato (Peruvian fusion), Little Spoon Desserts (aw, their Twitter account is @weliketospoon), Flying Pig (Asian-F (Read More)
Serious Eats:
This week's Tasty 10 is a little different—all Thanksgiving. And instead of limiting it to posts published in the last seven days, these are the most popular SE Thanksgiving posts of all time, for the week of November 13–20.1. The Food Lab: Turkey Brining Basics2. How to Spatchcock a Turkey3. Taste Test: Store-Bought Stuffi (Read More)
yumsugar -- To die for.:
If roasting a whole chicken seems like too much work at the end of a long week, consider this recipe that combines chicken legs with potatoes and kale. It's the perfect one-pot meal. All you have to do is toss everything into a roasting pan, throw it in the oven, and about an hour later, you'll have a flavorful dinner on th (Read More)
Slashfood:
Filed under: Business, Trends, Fast Food, Food NewsArby's curly fries. Photo: Mr. Wright, FlickrWhen the Detroit Red Wings failed to score hat tricks (three goals by one player in a single game) for parts of two seasons, they weren't only failing to score points. They were disappointing fans who were promised a free box of (Read More)
Slashfood:
Filed under: Television/Film, CelebritiesPhoto: Food Network.During a discussion at the Food Network's recent New York City Wine and Food Festival, author, "No Reservations" host and professional leather jacket wearer Anthony Bourdain asked his fellow panelist, culinary wunderkind Chef David Chang, "Who chaps your ass?" Cha (Read More)
Slashfood:
Filed under: Business, Fast Food, Food NewsPhoto: code_martial, FlickrWahoo's Fish Taco, the West Coast fast-food joint known both for its tacos and California surfer sensibility, celebrated its 20th anniversary in February with a party at its original Costa Mesa, Calif., restaurant. At the party they served 20-cent tacos a (Read More)
Serious Eats:
"Paula's face smiled up at me from the packaging, her familiar gray bob frozen into place, her lips shellacked with frosted pink gloss." [Photographs: Lucy Baker]Last week, in Ed's Brooklyn Star review, Ed deemed chef Joaquin Baca's biscuits "probably the best in newly biscuit-crazed New York." This so-called biscuit craze (Read More)
FitSugar -- Healthy, happy you.:
Few of us, if any, sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with a food scale in hand. Nevertheless, portion control on this day of feasting still matters. Using visual cues can certainly help keep your plate from turning into a pyramid of starch and fat.Turkey: A serving of meat is three ounces and looks like a deck of cards.Potato (Read More)
AppScout:
If you can make friends with a local cheese maker or find a spice shop in your neighborhood, I recommend doing so. But if specialty shops that suit your champagne tastes aren't available, you might like Gourmet Library. .The site is a new social network plus Web service that brings people who love food together with the foo (Read More)
Serious Eats:
It's time for another round of The Food Lab. Got a suggestion for an upcoming topic? Email Kenji here, and he'll do his best to answer your queries in a future post.[Photographs: J. Kenji Lopez-Alt]Turkey Stuffed TurkeyView the complete recipe here »Like many things in life, the problem with turkey can be boiled down to two (Read More)
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"But it's a harmless tub of peanut butter!" TSA says no. [Photograph: Robyn Lee]Just because it's the holiday season doesn't mean TSA will go easy on the liquid rule. Keep in mind that the following items will not survive the checkpoint for carry-on luggage: Cranberry sauceCologneCreamy dips and spreads (cheeses, peanut b (Read More)
yumsugar -- To die for.:
No matter what kind of turkey you'll be having this year, there's one question you'll need the answer to: What temperature does a turkey need to reach in order be considered "done"?Until last year, the USDA recommended cooking turkey to an internal temperature of 180ºF. But based on the fact that bacteria threat salmonella (Read More)
Serious Eats:
[Photograph: Robyn Lee]Serious eaters, I'm about to stand before you (and on Thinner) a beaten man. Why? It's been a bad serious diet week. I can cite the usual culprits: stress, bad eating habits, and too much access to seriously delicious food. And oh yeah, too many chocolate chip cookie taste tests. In fact, there's ano (Read More)
yumsugar -- To die for.:
Celebrate the premiere of New Moon by making vampire cookies. - Baking BitesFabio Viviani talks turkey. - Endless SimmerFind out why ground beef is dangerous. - The AtlanticAre you on Team Martha or Team Rachael Ray? - The Epi-LogAnthony Bourdain is not happy that the Travel Channel is now under Food Network's ownersh (Read More)