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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.
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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 [...]

The New York Times discusses the virtues and variety of wondrous monosodium glutimate.

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.

And processed people food is beginning to resemble dog food.

Something to think about. Link.

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 [...]

Holy crap. Someone invented spray on waffles and somehow it’s organic. Spray bacon is soon to follow.
I don’t understand, but I really want to try it.
Check out this video and see how it works.