Entries tagged with 'blogs'
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Last month on a visit to Butuan City in the Philippines, writer Robyn Eckhardt and photographer David Hagerman of Eating Asia witnessed the traditional processing of the sago palm, a plant mostly used for its tapioca-like sago flour. They thoroughly document the breakdown of the "Tree of Life" in three parts: extracting starch from the hack-out trunk shreds, using the flour in sweet coconut-flavored sago flatcakes, and frying up the fat-rich sago worms that hatch in the sago palm's trunk. Never before have I wanted to try something made of sago so badly. But I think I'll save the fried worms for later, even if they tasted "crispy, salty, and greasy, with a lick of smoke."...
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Today marks the first day of Chinese New Year, the Year of the Rat. Although the holiday marks the time for people to clean up their homes, reorganize their lives, pay respect to their ancestors, appease the Kitchen God, and conjure up enough luck to last them through the rest of the year, everyone knows that the central element to celebrating the new year is to stuff yourself with lots of food. Foods chosen for Chinese New year tend to carry auspicious meanings. Wealth may be symbolized by whole fish, dried tofu, oranges, egg rolls, and dumplings. Long life may be represented by "long foods," such as noodles and string beans. All of the above and more relate to luck...
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Rice Krispies isn't the only cereal that tastes good smothered in melted marshmallows and formed into chunky blocks of sugary carb-laden goodness. Check out Cakespy's comparison of six different cereals in treat-form—Corn Pops, Froot Loops, Frosted Flakes, Raisin Bran, Shredded Mini Wheats, and Special K. She concludes that while Rice Krispies may be the best suited for a marshmallow bath, Corn Pops and Frosted Flakes are also strong contenders. [via tastespotting]...
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Dave Cook of Eating In Translation was tired of drinking the standard coffee, tea, and hot chocolate over and over again, so he searched the New York City area for other hot drinks to get him through the winter. His list of 18 wintertime drinks hailing from a wide variety of cuisines should keep your taste buds toasty without tiring them out....
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Sara Rosso, also known as Ms. Adventures in Italy, recently came back from her trip to India with beautiful photos and commentary about Indian street food and Indian Chinese cuisine. Sliced ice cream, atomically spicy vegetables, mini potato burgers, fried potato balls—I crave them all. Time to get my butt to India....
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Just Bento is a new weblog by Maki Itoh with her bento recipes and tips. Each recipe requires no more than 30 minutes to prepare and is illustrated with a handy timeline. [via rp]...
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This bowl of homemade ice cream from My Husband Cooks may look innocent, but deep within its sweet, milky, aerated folds lurk chopped salted and roasted cashews, toffee chunks and marshmallow fluff. The flavor, dubbed Uneven Pavement Ice Cream, was born from a desire to create something reminiscent of Rocky Road Ice Cream but with more marshmallow intensity: I wanted veins of precious white marshmallow fluff running through the heart of my ice cream. I wanted the taster to discover strands of marshmallow sticking to the roof of her mouth. And I wouldn’t settle for the jarred fluff. No, sir. I looked up the recipe for making my own. Check out the recipe to churn out a batch of...
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Unable to get a reservation at Thomas Keller's French Laundry, Carol decided to make her way through his French Laundry Cookbook instead, one recipe at a time. She's blogging it, of course—complete with photos of the process from mise en place to finished product—so you can follow her escapades at French Laundry at Home. The project is a lovely idea, but the thing that really makes it work is that Carol is a fantastic writer with a great sense of humor and is unafraid of sharing her frustrations when things go awry. Last week she made the candied apple dessert from the book, which turned out to be a success taste-wise, but found the experience of making it so...
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My favorite beverage review site of all time, Kevin Fanning and Josh Allen's The Knowledge For Thirst, has finally started up again after a painfully long hiatus. I guarantee you've never in your entire life read a beverage face-off quite like the one they just put up of Mexican Coke Vs. Passover Coke. Accept no substitutes....
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Rhizome.org's ArtBase on Tea Blog, an ongoing project by British artist Ellie Harrison: "Every time Ellie has a cup of tea (or a different type of hot drink) she notes down the thought which is most on her mind during the first few sips. These thoughts are then uploaded to the Tea Blog at regular intervals. Tea Blog aims to expand indefinitely over the next few years, developing over-time into a vast database of thoughts – a diary of day-to-day life via the ritual of tea-drinking." It sounds banal, to be sure, but I was surprised to find myself getting really interested after clicking through a few cups worth of entries—Harrison gives you just a snippet of her life,...
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