Food Blog

I’m falling behind on adding to the food blog list. Forgive me If I missed you, I’m getting there.The Bloated Belly “Comments on consumption…” St. Paul, MNCookin’ With Cyndi Forest Falls, CaliforniaCooking With Kilby “… and other adventures in the Ottawa food scene”Cream Puffs in Venice “Making my food dreams come true…” TorontoThe Finicky Lawyer […]

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More controversial, political food news: Homeland Security Protects the Ham “… these people were protesting HAM. And I think you would have a very hard time finding someone willing to publicly take the position that these ham protesters are endangering our national security, or our soldier’s will to fight. Even here on the home front, […]

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2005 Champagne Cork Chair Contest
Surfeit of Food Celebrities, Part 2: Separated at birth?
Ever wonder why you only see steam coming off a sauce when you turn off the heat? The scientific chef: Peter Barham on boiling milk “The steam becomes visible only after the gas cools below 100C and small water droplets condense.”
Everything you ever […]

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More junk food. A hot dog with everything from Mustard’s Last Stand.

A typical tasty Vienna beef dog, on a nice soft bun. Be forewarned that ‘everything’ means catsup too, so note that if you’re one of those militant about that.
Right next to Northwestern’s Ryan Field, this small shop is packed with sports pictures and […]

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Gigio’s 2 times in one week. Considering just how long it’s been since I’ve had anything from them, I guess I’m catching up. In fact, it’s been so long that the menu I found had coupons which expired in 2001. It’s nice to know the prices hadn’t changed much - a slice only went up […]

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When I started blogging I made a promise that I wouldn’t post cat pictures. But back then I didn’t have access to a cat. Now I figure I should do it at least once. Here’s Doc proofreading one of my posts. More Weekend Cat Blogging at Masak Masak.

Just before I was about to post this […]

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Some quick food porn.
A sausage sandwich with hot peppers from Gigio’s in Evanston. I really wanted a meatball sandwich, but they were out of meatballs. The fries are generous and very good, and the hot peppers are actually hot, and they are actually peppers, unlike many places who think giardiniera is synonymous with hot peppers.

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Vintage or vile, wine is all the same after cheese “…proteins in the cheese may bind to flavour molecules in the wine, or that fat from the cheese may coat the mouth, deadening the tasters’ perception of the wines’ flavours”Corn Dog Air FreshenerCatalogue of Banana StickersInsect Candy Just in case you were looking for BBQ […]

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Any day now we should see the results for the 2005 Food Blog Awards. UPDATE: they’re in! As a judge for this years I had a hand in choosing who got in the final running. Just as Kate from Accidental Hedonist mentioned in an email, I have no trouble defending my choices, or the […]

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Point and Eat ‘Other people say grace before they eat — we food bloggers do it with our digital cameras.’ GRANT ELLIS reports on the new obsession with documenting dinner before devouring it’. via Candied Quince
Mobile Cooking “Many students, and other young people, have little in the way of cooking skills but can usually get […]

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