Commenting on the PBJ Special Report, Serious Eater Young mentioned that his friends in the band Chaibaba had recorded a song called "PB & J." We checked it out, and it was inspirational. So, in honor of National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day, Serious Eats has included Chaibaba's song in a special PBJ iMix on iTunes. After the jump ......
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Dinner With The Band "shows renowned avant-garde chef Sam Mason as he invites his favorite touring bands to his apartment for an intimate evening of food, conversation and live music." All that's up on the site right now is a pilot, but it looks pretty interesting and the show should be good if they actually start shooting more episodes. Mason was the pastry chef at NYC's WD-50, but left a few months ago to work on opening his own place....
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All-things-NYC blog Gothamist interviews rock star and food columnist Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand: It seems as though a lot of chefs fancy themselves to be rock stars. Do a lot of rock stars harbor secret desires to become chefs? There are personality traits common to people in both- disregard for conventional life, a desire to travel, swollen egos, tendency to alcohol and substance abuse. More chefs consciously behave like rock stars than rock stars behave like chefs, but that's because most guys in bands don't think about food much. Eating is something they have to do between the important stuff, similar to pissing or throwing up. Having said that, because any vagrant can get a job in a kitchen,...
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Brooklyn guy-girl two-piece Matt and Kim take playing with their food to new extremes in this cute music video. Stay tuned for the last 30 seconds or so....
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