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Cooks Source Copyright Infringement Becomes an Internet Meme

How to Shoot Ugly Food

20 Most Inventive Cupcakes Known To Man

Here’s a shot of the elk ragout, cheese curd poutine at The Gage. Just about as satisfying a meal as can be invented.

And the char burger and truffle fries at Edzo’s.

The 8oz char, nicely done, meaty with just the right amount of juice. The truffle fries are loaded with powerful truffle salt, giving me a nice truffle buzz for the rest of the afternoon. I don’t think I’ve ever eaten an order of fries that needed absolutely no catsup.

Some links that have been sitting around in my bookmarks gathering dust.

Tactical Canned Bacon Will Be “Edible” For 10 Years

Is it ethical to engineer livestock that feel no pain?

Oktoberfest Etiquette

20 Amazing Vintage Alcohol Advertisements

10 Sculptures Made of Butter (it is State Fair Season).

The Illinois State fair promised their butter cow sculpture will be “something unique, special and unlike anything that’s been done at the State Fair before”. It’s a display of a cow and Abraham Lincoln. Their butter cow cam isn’t working.

You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster, Dan Barber of Blue Hill writes about the tomato blight in the northeast. “According to plant pathologists, this killer round of blight began with a widespread infiltration of the disease in tomato starter plants. Large retailers like Home Depot, Kmart, Lowe’s and Wal-Mart bought starter plants from industrial breeding operations in the South and distributed them throughout the Northeast.”

How to bake cheeseburger cupcakes

Is there a political meaning to the beer summit having BLUE moon and RED Stripe?

CORRECTION: Prof. Gates must have decided the political and cultural implications of a Red Stripe would have torn the country asunder, and decided to have a Sam Adams Light.

Some good food shots over at Strobist’s latest assignment/contest.

Boxed Red Bull ingredients

“100% Natural” Can Be 0% Green

Fancy Fast Food

It’s time For Real video made by Olgivy Canada for eatreallocal.ca, Hellman’s Canada. Great food graphics illustrate the need to eat local (it’s about Canada, but it’s certainly the same message for the US).

Beer truck spills on the Tri-state. I love the comments.

“We’re giving bees high-fructose corn syrup”.

The Almond and the Bee – short 2:49 video highlight of a longer talk on farming and sustainability.