Food Blog

I was just on the east coast for the holidays, doing a lot of eating. I’ll cover the food we’ve cooked in a separate post, but I wanted to talk about two of the restaurants we’ve gone to. First is Stage Left, in New Brunswick NJ, the second, Asíate, in NY City. Both final bills […]

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One of the most knowledgable Chicago Chowhounds has his own weblog, Vital Information
Gapers block has a couple of good food related articles this week -One Good Meal: Better Sandwiches and Ask the Librarian: Hail to the Chef which tells us who cooks for the President.
The discussion that followed the sandwich article dug up a sandwich […]

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When Drought Reigns, Diets Can Turn Poisonous
Banished biotech corn not gone yet “Three years after a genetically engineered corn banned from human consumption turned up in taco shells and was pulled from the market, contaminated grain is still showing up in the nation’s corn supply. ” This isn’t the first time - we messed […]

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These are the gingerbread men published on Gapersblock’s cookie article. It’s adapted from this recipe. I’ve tweaked that recipe and added more than twice the amount of ginger and allspice, to give the little men some real snap. Next time I make these I might reduce the amount of molasses, and add some brown sugar […]

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