Entries tagged with 'awesome'
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I'm not really watching American Idol this season because the last thing I need is another umpteen hours of television a week, but if I were watching, I'd be pulling for Anoop Desai. I mean, how can you not love a contestant who wrote a 60-page college honors thesis about barbecue? Sixty pages! Wow. Desai wrote the paper as an undergrad at the University of North Carolina, a state that knows a thing or two about 'cue. The table of contents is listed below, but you can download and read the whole thing from anoopdog.com [pdf]. Desai is now a grad student at UNC, but this University of Kansas grad and KC barbecue partisan won't hold that against him. Table...
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What would it be like to step into a shrink ray and hop aboard a sushi conveyor belt? Wonder no more. Some crazy cats plunked a video camera down on a kaiten-zushi belt and let it roll.
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Pumpkin carving? So three months ago. Get with the program. All the cool kids have moved on to melons now. The Melounovy Festival in the Czech Republic seems to be ground zero for the artform. Get your knives sharpened. Preliminaries will be held July 31 and August 1. [via Boing Boing]...
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The Oregonian How 'bout this? Portland, Oregon, taco truck owners Gabina Lopez and Chencho Martinez parked their mobile kitchen on the street next to their home and then built a dining area in their front yard for customers. Now free of debt, Martinez had borrowed from his brother to buy the truck and used a Home Depot credit card to build out his porch to the street. "My American dream is starting to take shape," he said. Neighbors complained, but the truck is legally in a commercial zone, so there wasn't much the city could do but require the owners of El Nutri Taco to upgrade some electrical hookups. The truck is on Southeast Woodstock Boulevard near 84th Avenue,...
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That's 1300 percent of the check. Eric Hawthorne, a pre-med student and single father of one, has no idea why the couple he waited on left it. And, no, it wasn't a mistake. Here's the video. [via MenuPages Philly]...
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Clockwise from top left: Beef, citrus, abalone, and strawberries. While catching up on friends' blogs, I ran across a beautiful food-related stamp from Mexico on Robyn Lee's Tumblr account.* A little digging, and I had this bit of info from Wikipedia: From 1975 to 1993, Mexico issued a series of definitive regular and airmail stamps in a uniform style depicting a great variety of products Mexico exports, such as beef, bicycles, tomatoes, and chemicals, each stamp bearing the Exporta logo. The series was added to over the years, and there are a great number of variants of papers, sizes, colors, watermarks, and plate flaws. A number of the stamps had burelage printed on their surface. Specialists have also identified...
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"Turkey Day is my Olympics!" —Serious Eats community member JerzeeTomato, in a comment from last year that we just rediscovered today. Trotting it out again this year because, really, it's timeless....
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Clockwise from top: "Gastrotypographicalassemblage" as restored by the Center for Design Study, a detail of the wall, Lou Dorfsman in front of the wall. Photographs from TCFDS on Flickr Lou Dorfsman, who had a 40-year run as advertising and corporate design director at CBS, (during the heyday of what was once known as the "Tiffany Network"), died last week at 90. The food angle here? Dorfsman designed an amazing work of art for the cafeteria at CBS headquarters called the "Gastrotypographicalassemblage." It was a wall 35 feet long by 8.5 feet tall that represented all sorts of foods and food-related things as playful words reminiscent of the old wood type seen in advertising posters of the late 1800s. "Gastrotypographicalassemblage"...
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SE reader FastFoodCritic tipped us off to this commercial for Axe Body Spray, featuring the line: "As irresistible as chocolate, New Axe Dark Temptation." Desperate women chomp pieces off Chocolate Man's ears, arms, hands, and butt. If I actually saw this guy in person, I'd definitely run the other way, even if he was made of Guittard 72% Cacao. Instead, he'll just be invading my nightmares--especially the image of him with his hand melting down as he makes hot chocolate. Catch the one minute ad in all its entertaining chocolatey goodness (and the seductive swoon of "Sweet Touch of Love" by Allan Toussaint) after the jump....
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Behold, the best barbecue smoking team logo ever. Adam mentioned Transformer BBQ's logo in his post about the American Royal Barbecue Contest, but the logo's awesomeness warrants its own post. Compare the original Transformers logo to the porky version, after the jump....
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