Food Blog

I should note that I’ve found quite a few of these at the excellent My Aim Is True weblog. It’s not a food blog, but one that carries on the tradition of the classic weblog - that of passing on cool links once in awhile. It’s only fair that I steal some of her links since she stole one of my pictures. All is even now.

the (all American) history of shopping (carts)

The Bacon Show “one bacon recipe per day, every day, forever” If that’s not a lofty enough goal, the sidebar is one of the best bacon resources on the web.

MacGourmet.com A site and blog for people who love to cook, love great wines, and who also happen to love Apple Macintosh computers.” They also make a cool looking program with the same name: “Think of MacGourmet as “iTunes for recipes.”MacGourmet helps you create and edit recipes, wine notes and cooking notes, easily browse your entire collection and build your own custom lists for categories like appetizers or desserts.”

Shameless Restaurants “This site is the voice of all struggling bar and restaurant workers.
It is clear that the food industry in our cities has been out of control, and the truth is that many restaurant employers are abusive, sexist, mean, sleazy and crooked, they will take advantage of anyone who is kind, young, naive or new. The fact is the food industry makes billions of dollars from teenagers, college students, immigrants and others who work so hard so some CEO can get richer.” While you’re opening up a can of worms every time you ask people to complain about their jobs, there is some insight here on the back of the house. You might just find out things you don’t want to know about the places you know and love.

The Industry: Killer Tomatoes “Although seedless grapes have been around for more than 100 years, seedless tomatoes aren’t yet commercially available.”

Tropical Fruit Reviews “Just got back from traveling around Asia… Wandering the streets of vast metropoli, exploring obscure corners of ancient ruins, digging my toes into white sand beaches, and pattering around intricately decorated buddhist temples has led me to a new level of enlightenment. I’ve been missing out on some damn good fruit… Here’s a roundup of my favorite new culinary delights, appearing in order of relative deliciousness”

We all need to get ready for Grilled Cheese day on Monday.