Archive for May, 2008

What brown can do for you

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

This month on Culinate: Cocoa nut: All about powdered chocolate As I broke off a square of Chocovic, I noticed my lone can of Hershey’s cocoa powder, and found myself wondering: Was I missing the potential of cocoa powder just because it has zero snack potential? While writing this article, I spoke to actual people […]

Sticken

Friday, May 16th, 2008

You know what the best food in the world is? It’s a free sample of chicken in some kind of sweet sauce, served on a toothpick, found in a food court. Iris and I were at Uwajimaya today, and she asked for a sample of orange chicken at the Thai counter, and she reported that […]

The toothy ones

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Is it just me, or is “Patagonian Toothfish” a way cooler name for a fish than “Chilean Sea Bass”? Is it just me, or is “Dr. Jekyll” a way creepier name than “Mr. Hyde”? Is it just me, or am I supposed to be working on something else?

Jungle fever

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Last week on Gourmet.com there was an interview with the author of a book called The Jungle Effect, which is about the value of traditional diets and how we can accrue some of that value without having to actually live in the jungle. The author, Daphne Miller, wisely pitches her book as a companion volume […]

I did not cut down that cherry tree

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

But I did eat the cherries. Today on Gourmet.com: Beyond Pie Filling So around the Fourth of July, my family rolled up to the generous reader’s front yard, armed with buckets. I was worried this would be some kind of scrawny, homegrown cherry tree with inferior fruit, and we’d have to politely pick cherries and […]