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The Year in Fast Food: Highlights, Lowlights, and More Breakfast Sandwiches
Although the past year didn't produce any fast food innovations on the order of 2010's fried-chicken-as-bread breakthrough, there were still several notable additions to the nation's collective drive-thru menu. In particular, breakfast took a couple of little steps forward (along with the usual steps back), bread got weird and ambitious, and they continued to throw cheese at us from all angles.The Year That Was: Top 10 Talk Topics of 2010
1. Hilariously Wrong Food on Television »2. Have you ever just been completly insulted preparing a meal? »
3. Which celebrity chef is more "Celebrity" than Chef? »
4. a Trader Joe's Disappointment »
5. Man Vs. Food: Gluttony or just good TV? »
6. Kitchen tools we can't be without »
7. How do you eat for a week for $50? »
8. Alton Brown's diet »
9. Not your mom's meatloaf! »
10. Dear Restaurants: I'm sick of seeing ___ on your menus! »
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The Year That Was: The Tasty 10 of 2010
1. How to Make Peepshi=Peeps Sushi »2. Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous-Vide Hack »
3. Peanut Butter Sushi »
4. A Tour of Serious Eats Headquarters »
5. The Food Lab: In Search of the Best Oven-Fried Buffalo Wings »
6. How to Make Goat Cheese »
7. Fresh Ricotta in Five Minutes or Less »
8. The Best Chocolate Chips for Chocolate Chip Cookies »
9. The Physiology of Foie: Why Foie Gras Is Not Unethical »
10. Cakespy: Homemade Thin Mints »
The Top 10 Most-Googled Recipes of 2009
Beans, beans. [Photograph: Robyn Lee] According to Restaurants & Institutions, the top 10 most-Googled recipes of last year were: Chili Meatloaf Cheesecake Banana bread Pancake Salsa Hummus Lasagna Apple pie Meatball Does that gibe with your own cooking-search behavior in 2009?...The Year That Was: Top 10 Posts on Serious Eats
Since the long holiday weekend isn't over, we've still got some time left to look back at the year just ended before you roll your eyes at us completely. I just posted a list of the Top 50 Serious Eats Talk Threads and while I was at it figured I'd take a look at what the Tasty 10 of 2009 looked like. Here they are: 1. The Food Lab: Perfect Boiled Eggs » 2. Recipe: Rice Krispies Sushi » 3. Sunday Brunch: The Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever » 4. Recipe: How to Make a Choco Taco » 5. One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk » 6. Adam's Top 8 Pizzas of 2009 » 7. The...Ingredient of the Year: Brussels Sprouts
[Photo © Sarah Shatz/Food52] The ingredient of the year? Brussels sprouts. Moms everywhere are going to be in shock about this pronouncement, but the evidence is overwhelming. Brussels sprouts are being served morning, noon, and night, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and every time in between. And why not? They can be nutty, crispy, and tender all at the same time. How many foods can you say that about? Consider the following:...The Year That Was: Street Food
If it was served from a truck, cart, bus, camping trailer, or some other mobile contraption, it was probably a little cooler to eat this year. No longer does "street food" just mean a humdrum hot dog or pretzel—it now covers everything from brioche ice cream sandwiches to duck tacos and schnitzel. While food carts have historically illustrated a community's immigrant growth, this year it seemed like everyone and their grandma were opening a sidewalk food business, no matter where they came from. Here were some highlights....The Year That Was: Memes, Themes, and Schemes of 2009
You thought we'd just forget, didn't you? No, no, no, girls and boys. Let The Year That Was 2009 commence! Today, the memes, themes, and schemes that shaped this year in food. (Don't worry, we're not going to go as nuts as last year.)...The Year That Was in Questionable Celebrity Chef Hairstyles
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....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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