Food
First 20 minutes of King Corn
First 20 minutes of King Corn, a documentary on America’s addiction to the yellow crop. Here’s a bit more about the movie.
Have you been wondering why Americans are so overweight? Or why certain foods are so cheap? Have you heard our average life expectancy is headed down, not up? Two college friends set out with [...]
Dublin Dr. Pepper
Came across this picture in Amit Gupta’s Flickr stream, it’s a bottle of Dublin Dr. Pepper. The Dr. Peppers come from the Dublin bottling plant who still use sugar (not high fructose corn syrup) in their recipe. I love this sort of thing, I’m a Dr. Pepper fan (I’ll drink it over Coke or Pepsi [...]
Time-lapse gingerbread house construction
Time-lapse video of construction of the giant gingerbread house over at Disney World’s Grand Floridian hotel.
Link (via BoingBoing)
Scorsese commercial for Freixenet
Scorsese doing Hitchcock doing a commercial.
Why San Francisco is so friggen cool
(Ok, this is actually in Oakland)
1st Annual Oakland Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational
The “Grilled Cheese Invitational” is an official competition with prizes awarded for each category. The competition will be begin promptly at 8:00 pm at Eli’s Mile High Club in North Oakland. This is a serious competition and only the strong will achieve victory in [...]
Fatty Foods: Arglebargle or Fooferah?
Interesting NY Times article on the history of the belief that consuming fatty foods was the primary causes of heart disease and other ailments (cancer is named) in America. The establishment of this belief caused the creation of the “Food Pyramid” which pushed more consumption of carbohydrates, and in turn may have been the [...]
Flank Steak Sandwiches with Beer Battered Onion Rings
I love a good steak sandwich, so I was excited to come across a “Flank Steak and Boursin Cheese Sandwich” recipe that I had to try. I was initially unhappy with the recipe because it didn’t call for doing anything special to the steak, just simply throwing it on the grill until complete. I had [...]
Gordon Ramsay’s Scrambled Eggs
I came across this video the other day, claiming it shows the secret of cooking the best scrambled eggs you’ve ever tasted.
The video (for those of you without the patience to watch it) shows Gordon Ramsay’s version of scrambled eggs. Now the man has several TV shows, written books, and has several Michelin starred restaurants [...]
Food porn
A visit to The French Laundry.
(Link courtesy of Slashfood)
