"I've never seen more crying on a reality/game show than on Worst Cooks in America. Name of the show gives away you suck, why the surprise?" —@KarolNYC...
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"When did a certain group of men take over the womanly art of home cooking? And why can't we who are married to them just sit back and call their conquest of the kitchen a feminist triumph? If you had told a mistress of the house in the 1950s that one day her husband would julienne a carrot, she would have wept with joy ... The first wave of feminists considered liberation from kitchen duties, along with liberation from housework and enforced vapidity, an absolute must." —Hanna Rosin, on Double X...
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"In a lot of ways I think food is starting to take the place in culture that rock and roll took 30 years ago, in that eating has become incredibly political. And just as the street has always dictated fashions on music and other things, it's starting to happen that way in food." —Jonathan Gold, L.A. Weekly food critic...
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"7. Wake up on Thanksgiving without killing any relatives." —The Awl's Choire Sicha, in "How to Barbecue a Turkey, The Super Easy Way for Morons"...
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"There hasn't been a food trend this hyped since Pinkberry and its imitators began mushrooming in vacant strip mall storefronts. " —Elina Shatkin, on the nouveau food truck scene...
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"Flinging around four-letter words when cooking isn’t attractive, to me or Julia. She didn’t want to endorse it. What came through on the blog was somebody who was doing it almost for the sake of a stunt...She didn’t suffer fools, if you know what I mean." —Book editor and FoJC Judith Jones [via EMD]...
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"I'm dabbling in it and looking at becoming a chef. [Hervé This] is fantastic. I didn't really cook before, but this book may be changing my life," —Keanu Reeves, after reading This's Molecular Gastronomy: Exploring the Science of Flavour [via AFC]...
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"Meanwhile, the geeks over at Apple are developing a USB sous vides chamber for the MacBook Air." —JudgeFudge...
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"...donuts are too awesome to be accompanied by an 'ugh.'" —@thebookpolice...
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"I could never understand why people add water to their eggs. I generally add 2% milk or higher percentage milkfat, or even sour cream. But the water makes no sense to me. I had watered-down eggs in the Navy and to me they were tasteless. Can anyone explain why this is done, besides 'That's how the French do it'?" —LunaPierCook...
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