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This Week's Tasty 10

Posted by Adam Kuban, August 8, 2009 at 9:00 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. Taste Test: Milks Not From a Cow
"Hemp milk, like hemp necklaces, should be avoided."

2. Serious Green: 10 Cheap & Green Kitchen Tips
"As a committed tree-hugger and very recent graduate, I find myself plopped firmly at the intersection of cheap and green. Keeping things environmentally friendly while keeping costs down is important to me. Below, some of my best time-tested, budget-approved ways to keep both your wallet and the earth green and happy."

3. What is your fantasy food business?
"If you were able to, what type of food related business would you start? Could be a restaurant, bakery, market, etc...."

4. Watch It with Us: 'The Next Food Network Star' Season 5 Finale
"Remember last year—one of the losers got a show, too!"

5. Pie Lollipops
These pictures are worth a thousand words, so we'll only venture two: pie lollipops.

6. Dinner Tonight: Chicken Fried Steak with Cream Gravy
"The name comes from the cooking process. Simply, it's breaded and cooked in much the same way you would make fried chicken in a skillet. This isn't aggressive deep-fat frying, but the more gentle art of frying over moderate heat in a skillet. It takes longer, but the outside becomes perfectly crisp and crunchy while the inside remains wonderful juicy. It's an incredible transformation."

7. Wal-Mart Accused of Knock-Off Girl Scout Cookies
"You'd think that Wal-Mart would want to boost its image after so much controversy over non-union jobs, sweatshops, and discrimination against female employees, but here we go, more drama."

8. What One Food Mag Should I Get?
"If you could only subscribe to one food magazine, what would it be? I have been thinking about subscribing to one for a while and want to do it, but am having trouble deciding. I have LOVED recipes from Gourmet, I like Cooking Light's content, I am not overly familiar with Bon Appetit, but have cooked lots of their recipes from Epicurious. I have tons of cookbooks but like the seasonal aspect that the magazines bring. Any suggestions?"

9. Do Biodegradable Spoons Ruin the Ice Cream Experience?
"Usually when eating ice cream, the brain isn't too critical. Ooooh, iiiiice creeeam is about as advanced as my mental process gets, but it's interesting to see the evolution of the ice cream-eating experience. Do you think our earth-hugging tendencies are compromising the basic joys of frozen dessert?"

10. The Nasty Bits: Chicken Feet
"These morsels of skin and bones are a unique combination of textures—the wrinkled, puffed skin on the surface and the soft, gelatinous tendons within."

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