Last week, the New York Times' Dining section semi-officially became a blog, and now, they're actually blogging: a post on the Diner's Journal, Possible Food Price Fixing, directly links to a story from the Wall Street Journal....
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Little kids everywhere should hide the candy wrappers and wind-up Happy Meal toys. Grown-ups are after us! Especially the ones with fat cheeks and roly-poly fingers! According to the newswires, a wave of anti-chubby kid sentiment is buzzing in Lyon, France where Chef Philippe Gauvreau is using his two-Michelin-star restaurant “La Rotonde” as a venue for haute cuisine classes for kids. Does he realize that “rotonde” sounds like “rotund” which means pudgy? Les enfants might get confused....
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For his master's thesis at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, my friend Ben Brown built News Brews, a device that scans news feeds via the internet, and "parses them to determine the relative frequency at which different coffee growing regions are mentioned. It then brews a cup of coffee from freshly ground whole beans which contains relative proportions of beans grown in the regions in that day's news." I'm looking forward to further developments in the new field of beverage informatics....
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According to today's New York Times, Chicago's City Council yesterday became the first city in the country to outlaw the sale of foie gras. According to the Chicago Sun Times Chi-town mayor Richard M. Daley had this to say in response: "We have children getting killed by gang leaders and dope dealers. We have real issues here in this city. And we're dealing with foie gras? Let's get some priorities." Finally, a politician I can get behind. Richard M. Daley for President! He's a decider. And a prioritizer....
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