For the Foodie Fontographer: Movable Type in Chocolate
Type-design gurus Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones find an awesome font rendered in chocolate. Text aus Schokolade, from € 0.60 a character. [via Print magazine]
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Finally, Pizza for Pizza Lovers from Pizza Hut
From the Onion Radio News, Doyle Redland files a report on Pizza Hut's New Pizza-Lover's Pizza Topped With Smaller Pizzas. Ed and Adam are positively quivering with excitement. [via Gulfstream]
Pa-pa-pa-pa-Parmigiano Re-re-re-re-re-Reggiano
I can guarantee you that the cutest, most joyous food-related item you will see this week, maybe even this entire month, will be this series of commercials for Parmigiano Reggiano, a.k.a. parmesan cheese:
Can you go wrong with dancing, singing vegetables? Excited about cheese? In Italian? I think not. [via Brandon Eats]
Bagel + CD Spindle = Bagel to Go
Rodrigo Piwonka put an avocado-filled toasted bagel into an empty CD spindle, and voilà, a bagel to go! It's the perfect solution if you love complicated bagels but not the wrapping up, or the potential mess of transporting them in your bag. [via Kung Fu Grippe]
Handpulling Noodles to Teach Physics
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!
The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest
One of the greatest April Fools pranks of all time was pulled in 1957 by the BBC, of all institutions. Aired as an ordinary episode of the renowned series Panorama, it purported to be a documentary about "a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual spaghetti harvest. It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry."
It sounds ridiculous now, sure, but back then many people had either never heard of spaghetti or had only ever had it from cans, and the episode was shot in a completely straightforward fashion and narrated by the respected journalist Richard Dimbleby. Hundreds of people called the BBC to ask where they could purchase spaghetti bushes for themselves!
Bacon Butter Dish
Grateful Palate, home of the only club I've ever wanted to join—the Bacon of the Month Club—has a beautiful ceramic bacon butter dish for $39.95. I don't know who writes the copy for their site, but it's so beautiful it makes me want to cry: "Bacon and butter. Isn't this an epic concept? Spasky and Fischer, Stalin and Roosevelt, Angelina and Brad? The two greatest, most powerful cooking ingredients come together to form a union of love and flavor in your kitchen."
Also great: their BLT scented votive candle trio. The bacon one has a cute illustration of a pig and says "bacon = freedom" on it! These are truly my people.
George Duran's Trial By Fryer
There's a theory to which many people I know subscribe which basically says that any delicious food can only get better if you coat it in a tasty batter and then deep-fry it.
Well, FHM got Food Network host George Duran to try it out by submitting five classic comfort foods to Trial By Fryer: White Castle sliders, microwave pizza, hard-boiled eggs, gummi worms and chocolate chip cookie dough. Four out of the five did well, but you might be surprised which food came out tops and which one was a let down. I know I was!
Fruit: A Risk vs Reward Analysis
My favorite blog post I've read so far this week is by far the a risk vs. reward analysis of fruit by Justin of Guardedly Optimistic. Here's what he has to say about the humble banana:
fruit: banana
risk: low
reward: moderate
analysis: Never a bad choice, the banana is the .290 hitter of fruit. When was the last time you had a surprisingly bad banana? Never, that’s when. More importantly, the banana offers the most easily interpreted warning signs in the fruit family: if it’s slightly green or covered in brown spots, you know you’re rolling the dice. You will most likely never eat a memorable banana, but for a low-risk fruit that pays out solid dividends, you can’t do better. If you don’t like surprises, the banana might be the fruit for you.
I think his analysis is spot on, except for that he forgets that you win no matter what state your banana is in; green ones you can curry, brown ones are even better because you can turn them into banana bread. Is any other fruit as versatile in its varying stages of ripeness? (Having said that, my favorite fruit by far is a Philippine mango. Clementines come in a distant second.)
[via MattBites]
SPAMARAMA 2007
The 29th anniversary of Austin's pandemonious potted pork festival is coming up—this year's SPAMARAMA® will be held April 7, from noon till six. There's a SPAM™ cook-off, of course, with cash prizes going to the winners of the Open and Professional categories, as well as the People's Choice Award; the SPAMALYMPICS™ features storied events like "the SPAM® Disc Shoot, the SPAM™ Call (remotely similar to a hog call), the SPAM™ Can Relay and the SPAMBURGER® Eating Contest". Keep Austin weird, indeed.
[via Weird Eats]
Waffle House Grill's Cook's Cheat Sheet
Nick Gray recently posted this amazing photo of a Waffle House Grill Cook's Cheat Sheet—the position of each condiments on each plate are a code that allow the chain's cooks to visually keep track of multiple orders without having to refer to paper tickets.
[via kottke.org]
The Great Big Vegetable Challenge
"Welcome to the World's First Great Big Vegetable Challenge! Take one seven year old boy named Freddie and his mother as they face the challenge of turning him from a Vegetable-Phobic into a boy who will eat and even enjoy some of life's leafier pleasures. Join us as we work through the A to Z of vegetables!"
Fred's mom posts photos and the recipes they've tried (some suggested by readers) and Fred himself rates dishes—recently he's given potage crecy a nine and courgette quesadillas a full ten, so he can't really be that much of a vegetable hater, he certainly seems to like them more than I do! The GBVC is first and foremost a fantastic idea but it's also a very charming read, and I look forward to eating vegetables vicariously through their continuing adventures.
[via The Grinder]
The Diving Pig
A full third of the Serious Eats staff* owns prints of this lovely painting by German artist Michael Sowa. You can get one for yourself for $19.99 at Art.com, or you can get the hardcover book Sowa's Ark and see the Diving Pig plus 54 more of his animal paintings for $24.95 from Amazon.
* Two people, but we carry big sticks.
