In the News: Weird Dudes Cooking; Rachael Ray's New House; Chicken, Chicken, Chicken
- Outré cuisine: Is "weird old guys cooking" the new culinary trend for 2007? In addition to Christopher Walken's surreal roast chicken video, David Lynch cooks quinoa in the DVD extras of Inland Empire. [Madison Capital Times]
- Rachael Ray is looking to buy a house in the Hamptons. I'm assuming that this is the kitchen in the guest house. [People; Wall Street Journal]
- A look at Wild Oats Market on its home turf as the Boulder, Colorado–based green grocery chain prepares for possible sale to Whole Foods. [Forbes]
- Majority of Canadians worried about food imports. [The Globe & Mail]
- The reason to get up in the morning. [Cat and Girl; via VJarmy.com]
- Rick Steves, writing about the finicky virtues of the French, laments that "free-range" snails have "gone the way of the great American buffalo" and talks to a French vintner about the character of good wine. [Seattle Times]
"A good grape must suffer. Look at this soil—it's horrible, just rocks. And these grapes have character. The roots of these struggling vines are thin as hairs, searching down for moisture. The vines in the flat fields" — she motions to fields just a kilometer away — "have it too easy ... a silver spoon in their teeth. It's like people. Paris Hilton, she is not interesting. The fine wines of humanity, they are the ones who have suffered." (I had to ask, "Like Tina Turner?" She said, "Exactly.")
- "Food on the Internet: Tastes Like Chicken.":
In summer, we're Googling chicken salad; in winter, chicken pot pie and chicken noodle soup. [Time]Our Internet habits reveal a lot about our food preferences, and if our Internet searches are any reflection of our daily menu, we're having chicken for dinner. If we examine the search terms that send traffic to the top recipe sites such as Allrecipes.com and Epicurious, we find that chicken remains the most searched for main ingredient. In fact, I can tell you what time of year it is based on the most popular chicken recipe searches.
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You're talking weird old guys cooking? Check out Paul McCartney making mashed potatoes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyyEc-GNDfQ
(OK, so maybe he's not weird, and maybe he's not SO hold in that clip, but...)
Dee at 9:22PM on 08/20/07
Weird old guys cooking? Has anyone seen Keith Floyd recently? My boyfriend and I just watched an old episode of him standing in a field in Greenland, cooking some bizarre moussaka-esque dish in an underground oven (aubergine! in Greenland!). This current crop of old weirdos must have looked to him for inspiration.
caley at 9:07AM on 08/21/07
Robert Rodriguez has cooking segments attached to some of his DVDs. The breakfast burritos son muy deliciosos!
Stufsocker at 1:16PM on 08/21/07
Robert Rodriguez: Weird youngish dude. Heh. Oh yeah. I had forgotten about those. I remember when that last Rodriguez-Tarantino double feature came out, there was all that talk on the tubes about the breakfast burrito video. Thanks for the reminder, Stufsocker.
Adam Kuban at 1:22PM on 08/21/07