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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.

This Texan is furious is about Jimmy Dean Sausage.

This food blog and Chow report about a disturbing bit of news regarding Larry Craig.

Idaho senator Larry Craig’s wife, Suzanne, was kind enough to contribute a recipe to Congress Cooks! Naturally, the recipe uses Idaho potatoes. The thing is, in light of certain recent developments regarding the Republican senator’s alleged behavior in an airport [...]

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

Serious Eats has a post about “How to Order Chinese Food.” The post was kinda interesting, but there was a link in there to a lay person’s guide to reading Chinese. It’s not about how to speak Chinese, pronounce Chinese, or even understand spoken Chinese. The guide only concerns itself with reading Chinese signs [...]

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

Gummy Bears? Sure.
Gummy Worms? Yeah.
Swedish Fish? Oh yeah.
Chinese Gummy Pizza? Huh?
I found this in some weird Chinese-made candy/toy package thing at work. Supposedly it was a leftover from a photo shoot. Anyways, its got this weird little mutant rat with a (missing?) nose. If you turn the package over, you can see that it is [...]

I scanned a lobster bib i got at the excellent Vietnamese restaurant PPQ Dungeness Island. Yes, I am aware that this fine crab restaurant hands out lobster bibs, but who cares, the food is amazing. If you like spending more money on crab and you feel like going to the original, you can go to [...]

The amazing blog Suicide Food is all about restaurant mascots that can’t wait to be eaten. One of their better finds is a Chicago butcher called Moo & Oink. If there is one thing I love, it’s Zapp and Roger ripoffs in local commercials. The choreography is even better the second time around.
link.