Food Blog

Hot cross bun from Bennison’s.  
 
Oyster at Davis Street Fishmarket. I think that was a big fat Blue Point. They’re half price during their happy hour. 
 
Chiplotle BBQ Wrap at McDonald’s. Not very good - dull wrap, fake smoke taste. 

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Photoshoped animals into fruits

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Last year there were two trillion stalks of corn in Iowa, and a lot of it went to corn syrup Short article on King Corn, a movie about corn. There’s a dormant blog about the movie tour.
“If you were to pluck one of your hairs and analyze the origins of its carbon, most of it […]

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Scott Kelby, one of the Photoshop Guys has a couple of posts at his Photoshop Insider blog on shooting food - Shooting (and Lighting) for Food and a follow up - Cereal Shoot Lighting Diagram.
Found in the comments of the first post is a link to The dirty tricks of food photographers.

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I get several press releases a week, mostly cookbook announcements or recipe/timely food tips. It’s funny to see how many of these mirror themselves in the food pages of newspapers around the time I get them. 
But I just received an important, and local one, from Gus, the owner of Wiener and Still Champion here in Evanston, who […]

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Chocolate raised donut. Bennison’s Bakery, Evanston. 
 

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