Entries tagged with 'The Year That Was'
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Thomas Colicchio, courtesy The Feed Bag, and Tony Bourdain, courtesy Michael Ruhlman's blog. OK, we said that the round of food porn yesterday would be all there was in The Year That Was here on the Serious Eats homepage, but I'm dredging up these photos of Messrs. Colicchio and Bourdain as the set up to a very big punchline you're all going to love. I promise. So gawk at the pix above and come back in a bit for the big reveal....
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Last one. The Year That Was ends here. It's been real! Snapshots from Italy: Spremuta, Anyone?: Gina DePalma on fresh-squeezed orange juice in Rome. Photo of the Day: Pastel de Choclo, Chilean Corn and Meat Pie: A baked corn and meat dish commonly found in Chile. Snapshots from Chile: Hot Dogs and Sandwiches at Rapa Nui: The completo, a hot dog topped with sauerkraut, avocado, chopped onion, and mayonnaise....
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The Year That Was: Where serious eaters were eating out—or should have been—in 2008. National Stories Regional Hot Dog Styles:To celebrate July 4th weekend, we brought you Serious Eats' definitive guide to America's regional hot dog styles. Where to Find Duck Fat Fries: Chefs across the country were skipping peanut or cottonseed oil to embrace rendered duck fat for fries. America's Heroes, Grinders, Subs, and More: Hoagies, heroes, subs, wedges, po'boys, grinders, and the list goes on. We compiled a list of America's best hold and cold sandwiches. iPhone Waiters Line-Waiter's Guide: Apple's iPhone 3G came out July 11. We imagined there would be some iPhone camping expeditions at Apple Stores across the country, with people lining up to get...
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"'What are your favorite kitchen tools?' My teeth." —HeartofGlass, in summing up the Talk topics mentioned in TYTW: Nagging Questions...
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We've been going a bit nuts with with our
Year That Was roundups here on Serious Eats. Thank you for indulging us (
or not). To make it easy for you to browse all these wraps, we've gathered them all here for you. Enjoy! (Or not!)
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Continuing The Year That Was with our pick for Ingredient of the Year. I know it seems like a cliche and passé at this point, but I have to call a spade a spade, or perhaps I should say I have to call a pig a pig (but maybe not, more about that later). Bacon is most assuredly the ingredient of the year. Every important, influential, and innovative chef, from David Chang to Grant Achatz to Thomas Keller, made substantial use of bacon in 2008. It was used in appetizers, main courses, and desserts: bacon cookies, peanut butter and bacon "Elvis"cupcakes, and brittle, anyone? It even showed up in cocktails (bacon martini, anyone?). It's used unadorned and as a mix-in,...
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I was wondering when someone would express this sentiment. From the Serious Eats inbox ... Why the fuck did I read your site all year when it turns out I can just tune in this week and get an entire year's worth of shit in my RSS feeder? Enough with the damn reviews clogging things up. I can't find the new material for all this review shit. Stop it. Stop it now!—Holli on vacation with a damn Google reader clogged with stuff I've already seen...
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Continuing The Year That Was with miscellaneous questions we asked in 2008. Looking back on it, it seemed that Ed originally had cornered the market on this type of blog post. But then something happened and Ed's style rubbed off on the rest us. Hmm, now how did that happen? Food Preferences Is vanilla ice cream with black specks better than vanilla ice cream without? What do you call cola drinks? Are you skeptical of molecular gastronomy? What's your favorite Halloween candy? What's the trick-or-treating age limit? Who likes sweet potato fries? Do you have a local grocery store that you've sworn undying loyalty to? Dining Etiquette Is it rude to eat on mass transit? Who should pay at a...
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Continuing The Year That Was are our favorite photography stories from 2008. Photograph by Graciepoo on Flickr After renown New York City chef David Chang banned photography at his restaurant Momofuku Ko, we asked other chefs and restaurateurs what they thought about customer photography in their upscale restaurants. That set off some insightful reader debate whether foodie photographers should be allowed to shoot their dishes. The banning of photography extended beyond restaurants—the famous Tsukiji market in Tokyo banned camera-toting tourists from visiting during the early morning market. But don't feel deterred from whipping out your camera at a meal, as we learned that taking photos of food may help you lose weight. We also learned that food porn is similar...
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The Year That Was, as measured by Ed's waistline. Ed started his diet on January 10. He flirted briefly with 100-calorie snack packs, was rebuked for it, and then renounced them. Still questionable: Ed's ideal diet breakfast—Diet Coke, potato chips, and a banana. Then again, he did discover his inner bok choy, which makes a weird kind of sense, I suppose. And for a series of posts that you'd think would have been fairly innocuous, it managed to incite mild controversy when The-Feedbag's Josh Ozersky attacks Ed and then posts a retraction. My main beef with Ed's diet posts is that they have inspired my girlfriend to get on my case about starting my own serious diet. But let's focus...
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