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This Week's Tasty 10

Posted by Adam Kuban, September 20, 2008 at 9:00 AM

According to our handy site-metering utility, the top 10 most delicious items on Serious Eats this week were:

1. Who Should Pay at a Birthday Dinner?
"At a woman's recent birthday dinner, as reported by CNN, 'the bill for the birthday girl and her seven guests came to a whopping $3,450, which someone suggested splitting evenly. That worked out to $500 per person, plus tip.' One guest refused. How do you usually handle these situations?"

2. Anthony Bourdain and Marco Pierre White Don't Want Your 18-Course Tasting Menu
"'I want two courses, not 18,' White said, recounting a horrible experience when the chef kept sending out plates. Three and a half hours later, he had no idea what he was eating—and he wanted it to stop. 'I was a fool to go with the tasting menu. All I wanted was my bill, and they said no. "You haven't had your pudding yet, sir." I didn't want the pudding.'"

3. A List of Food Bloggers Using Twitter
We started a directory of food bloggers who are using the social-networking and microblogging service Twitter. Find some new friends to follow or add yourself to the list!

4. Funny Pie Chart
"Pie I have eaten" vs. "Pie I have not yet eaten." The tastiest pie graph we've ever seen.

5. I'm So Old That I Remember (Food Style) ...
"My mother called it an ice box for the longest time, then in the last 10 or so years of her life, she called it a 'refridge.' I used to hear people/family call their fridge a 'Fridgidaire.' I only knew what they were talking about because our fridge until ~1993 WAS an old, old Fridgidaire." [from Talk]

6. Grilling: Dragon's Chicken Wings
"I wanted something quick and easy to cook in the hour interval between getting home from work and starting the Mets game. Luckily, I knew just the recipe; one I had been eying ever since I saw it posted on Photograzing, by the blogger Dragon's Kitchen: Dragon's Chicken Wings." [from Recipes]

7. Another Meme: The 100 Chinese Foods to Try Before You Die
"Pan-fried jiaozi? You've never had potstickers? Really?"

8. Woman Discovers Strawmato, A Strawberry Inside a Tomato
"This triggers daydreams of other improbable fruit and vegetable hybrids. What would you want? Simpsons fans are clearly rooting for the tomacco, a cross between tobacco and a tomato, Homer's fertilization project when he 'planted a little bit of everything.'"

9. Taking liberties with dish names
"I recently saw tomato carpaccio made on Ming Tsai's show Simply Ming (which by the way I like and watch regularly). To me, it seemed like a stretch to be calling sliced tomatoes with soy balsamic syrup 'carpaccio.' Am I just being uptight or do I have a valid point? What are some dishes you've seen in restaurants or cookbooks that take naming liberties?" [from Talk]

10. Why Pepperoni Pizza Sucks
"Pepperoni, while OK, is simply NOT good enough to have earned its place as the default pizza order of choice on merit alone. Hell no. I believe it has earned that place through process of elimination, unadventurous American taste buds, and dumb luck." [from Slice]

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