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This Week's Tasty 10

Posted by Adam Kuban, May 2, 2009 at 9:30 AM

According to our handy site-metering utility, the top 10 most delicious items across the Serious Eats family of sites this week were ...

1. Five Star Meals in Just Four Cans
"After reading Yotam Ottolenghi's Three Course Dinner in Just Four Tins, which consisted of canned corn, smoked oysters, stewed tomatoes, and pineapple, I couldn't help but try to finagle my own three-course creation using four canned foods and basic pantry items."

2. Whole Chicken in a Can Taste Test
"Ever see a can give birth to a chicken before?"

3. Swine Flu: Can You Still Eat Pork? All Signs Point to Yes
"If reports about swine flu and goverments banning pork imports are making you think twice about eating that bacon, don't worry: the World Health Organization (WHO) says swine flu isn't passed through meat and that it is safe to eat pork products."

4. Help me remember this breakfast cereal
"Standing in the cereal aisle today, completely befuddled. I was trying to remember a cereal that I used to like, and after perusing Gorilla Nuggets and a billion kinds of Cheerios, I gave up."

5. Meat Cards: Business Cards Made of Beef Jerky
"We start with 100% beef jerky, and SEAR your contact information into it with a 150 WATT CO2 LASER. Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS."

6. Behind the Scenes Look at Smith and Wollensky's Prime Rib
"I prefer my beef extra rare so I was surprised when Chavez informed me that the more well-done end cuts are actually the most popular."

7. Grilling: Tomatillo Salsa
"With the amount of Mexican and Tex-Mex dishes I've served up here, it should come as no surprise that Cinco de Mayo is probably my favorite cooking holiday. I start trying out party menu items weeks in advance, taking every opportunity to whip up some fine Mexican foods. Of course no Cinco de Mayo affair would be complete without salsa, and my current favorite is Rick Bayless's roasted tomatillo salsa. Although the original recipe has the tomatillos cooked stovetop in a skillet, it's easily adaptable to the grill, and I actually find it cleaner and easier to make this over the flames."

8. Long Flights - BYOF?
"So, tonight I am finally leaving on my first vacation in over six years and since I know that I will be traveling on a long flight, and that the food that they serve us (if we get any, because according to the website, even though it's intercontinental to Europe, we only get snacks and only if we want to buy them), I have decided to bring along my own food...namely: sushi (if you have seen my other posts, this would come as no surprise).

"Has anyone else ever done this? Do you ever get funny looks from other passengers or the flight attendants? Do they ever try to tell you that you can't take it on the flight? And if you do bring something, what do you generally bring?"

9. Should Restaurants Charge No-Show Fees?
"For every night of reservations, some percentage will be no-shows. And for a small restaurant, or one without a steady stream of walk-ins, those missed covers can be the difference between a profit and a loss. So what’s a restaurateur to do?"

10. Yet Another Food Blog: help me name it
"... Name is Hong Pham. I've thought of Phamily Foods...but sounds tacky....FoodNostalgia...too plain...any suggestions appreciated!!!!"

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