Food Blog

Before I get on with my Sicilian report and pictures, here’s a few food links.

Hot Dog Eating Competition pictures that are possibly unsafe for work.

200 bottles of Diet Coke and 500 Mentos.

Video: How to host a successful power lunch. I’m reminded of the most important rule at a business lunch - don’t get food on the client.

Willing to wait ten years or more for a drink? Andrew’s got an idea for you - “we’d buy casks from different distilleries and create a sort of mutual fund of scotch, with the return on investment being bottles of your personal cask”

The 7th Annual Feast of the Senses – food, wine & art & art. Thursday, June 22nd, 6pm-8:30pm “Eighteen art galleries in the River North neighborhood will host prominent Chicago Chefs, wineries, breweries, specialty shops and more… Proceeds raised will go towards two funds set up after Hurricane Katrina. ” Tickets are 50 bucks before June 15th.

Reviews are coming in for David Burke’s new Chicago Steak place, but he’s on my blacklist for pushing non-caloric bottled flavor sprays. The anti-christ of real food is something you spray on to food that you’re afraid to flavor with real flavor. The Restaurant Guys podcast talks about it here, and tries it here. (in the begining of both shows) The results were not good.

In one of those podcasts, the guys also discuss meat grown in a lab. If that doesn’t induce a gag response in the majority of humans, we should probably think about not calling ourselves human anymore. Slate has a recent article - “The Conscience of a Carnivore It’s time to stop killing meat and start growing it” which is in favor of this idea. Ick.