Videos of some of the presentations at this year's Taste3 are now available online. Two that I'd recommend watching are Moto Restaurant's 21-year-old Pastry Chef Ben Roche and Honey Bee expert Dennis van Engelsdorp....
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The director Robert Rodriguez has a new movie out, Grindhouse, which I haven't gotten around to seeing yet, but I did love 2005's Sin City, his adaptation of the Frank Miller comic book. Turns out if you get the Sin City DVD, one of the special features on it is the second episode of Rodriguez's 10-Minute Cooking School, for his Sin City Breakfast Tacos: He makes his tortillas from scratch, and uses both lard and butter! I may have to fight his new girlfriend Rose McGowan for him....
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What's your hard-boiled egg peeling trick?...
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If you like both noodles and science, you should get a kick out of this video from the physicist Philip Morrison's 1987 PBS show The Ring of Truth: Atoms, in which chef Mark Pi makes noodles to demonstrate the principle of halving: After handpulling and folding the noodles just twelve times, Pi's created 4,096 strands so thin they're called dragon's beard noodles; Morrison points out that if Pi pulls and folds them another thirty times, the noodles would be so fine as to approach atomic thickness!...
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Tasting Rachael Ray by Naomi Lebowitz is a video composed of Ray's money shots after tasting something on her Food Network show $40 A Day. Lebowitz used clips from more than 30 episodes of the show to make the video, which is a fun watch whether you love or hate Rachael Ray. [via Gawker]...
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Serious Eats is proud to bring you, through special arrangement, six tasty excerpts from
Smokestack Lightning, a Day in the Life of Barbecue. The movie, from filmmakers and serious eaters Scott Stohler and David Bransten, follows ten subjects from five different states, exploring "the history and tradition of this food from its rural beginnings to its present day incarnation in large-scale commercial organizations."
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Popcorn Popping in Slow Motion: "Check out this video of a popcorn kernel pop in slow motion being captured with a high speed camera. The explosion that makes it expand outwards is caused from a small amount of water inside the kernel that gets heated up until it expands." This is going to sound really silly until you watch the video, but: who knew popcorn was so beautiful? [via Neatorama]...
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Sometimes when you don't want the artisanal chocolate and you don't want any cheese that's 30 years old that's been made by monks in Latvia, you need things like sour Sunny Bears....
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In today's installment of Edibles, I indulge my sweet tooth with some Scharffen Berger milk chocolate. They just sold to Hershey's, so it's going to be interesting to see if the quality is still good. Eat along with me to find out. AS SEEN IN THIS 'EDIBLES' Scharffen Berger 41% Cacao Extra Rich Milk Chocolate. $4.50 for a 3-ounce bar....
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AS SEEN IN 'EDIBLES' Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company Blue Cheese Dressing: "American cheesemakers have come a long way, and this is an indication." ">pointreyescheese.com Cypress Grove Chevre Humboldt Fog: "A fabulous cheese; it's sharp tangy and nutty and all the things you want." cypressgrovechevre.com...
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