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Robb Walsh says so.

I’ve never rendered my own lard, but I am a fan of the wonderful substance. It isn’t exactly health food, but Lard has half the cholesterol and half the saturated fat of butter. I don’t eat it every day, but I think Americans need to get over the fear of the stuff.
One of my favorites [...]

Making homemade stock is one of my favorite things to do. It takes forever, but is completely worth it.
This blog post explains it better:
Beef stock tastes like Chef-Boy-R-Dee ravioli.
Veal stock is more velvety than actual velvet.
Beef stock is a sweaty, hairy truck driver on the final leg of a cross-country haul, in which he [...]

I am not really qualified to talk about bread or baking, but I have taken a crack at baking recently. I even attempt to maintain my own sourdough starter. Sometimes this works, sometimes not.
Anyways, go check out the bread blog Wild Yeast
and learn about sourdough.
link.
For the record, I got the starter of [...]

I have been saying that the pizza here is total crap ever since I moved. How could a town that supposedly has a “Little Italy” have such subpar pizza? I keep trying new places and get excited when I find one rises above crappy to the level of mediocre. Anyways, enough of my rant. Here [...]

Fun stuff! I found this at Sunset Super. It was somewhere in between the men’s pocky and the beef tripe over at the butcher case.

Before there was Harold McGee’s On Food & Cooking and before Michael Ruhlman’s The Elements of Cooking there was The Grocer’s Encyclopedia by Aretemas Ward. This extensive work from 1911 is available online for free here.

The amazing food science genius Harold McGee has a great article in the NYT about the very basic yet often overlooked subject of heat in cooking.

The solution is to cook with more than one level of heat. Start with very cold meat and very high heat to get the surface browned as quickly as [...]

Its Bacon Salt.
I will let baconsalt.com tell you all about it. I don’t think I need to explain this. Baconsalt!

Now here is a food blog I can support and identify with. Lots of good food, photography and Texan foodstuffs.
Link.

Dedicated To All The Taco Truck Vendors.
From the Taco Truck Flickr Pool.
More Taco Information:
My taco truck near my work.
Chow article about taco trucks.
A taco truck finder that would be much cooler if it showed trucks in the bay area.

I made this amazing dinner for myself. Labor day is the best.
This is a variation on mole poblano. I was missing one type of chile in the dish so it is a little lighter in color than mole that you might be used to. I used a Rick Bayless method that was sort of similar [...]