Recipes for vinegar pie and pomegranate soup from the 1 Bite 7 Days project are now posted on the official site.
Posted by Robyn Lee, June 19, 2008 at 2:00 PM
I didn't go to last weekend's Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, New York expecting to eat anything interesting or unusual, but thanks to 1 Bite 7 Days I got the opportunity to taste three dishes that were new to my taste buds.
1 Bite 7 Days is Heather Menicucci's documentary project named after a Japanese proverb that says, "For every new food we eat, we gain seven days of life." After trying one of her complimentary dishes (or three, if you're a glutton like me), participants enter a private booth where they can talk about what they would do with their extra seven (to twenty-one) days, with their responses being recorded on camera to be compiled into the final video.
I spent a long time thinking about what I would do with my extra days of life, hoping to come up with something profound. To say that I succeeded would be grossly incorrect (the contents of what I said in that booth are private, unless Heather deems them engaging enough to go into the final cut), but the food was enjoyable. Out of the three choices—vinegar pie, pomegranate soup, and pickled fiddlehead ferns—I found the vinegar pie most interesting, although I'd say the pomegranate soup was the most palatable. Read more about the dishes after the jump.
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Posted by Robyn Lee, May 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Spain...On the Road Again is an upcoming PBS series documenting Mario Batali during his four month-long eating spree through Spain with a few of his friends. Maybe you've heard of them: actress Gwyneth Paltrow, food writer Mark Bittman, and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols. Take at peek at their fooding adventures with this four and a half minute montage of their travels. The full series will air in September.
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Posted by Adam Kuban, September 6, 2007 at 4:30 PM
Speaking of food films, a couple cute food-related documentaries came across my desk recently, and I figured I'd pass word of them on to you.
- Donut Day, produced by Amy Levine and Dhera Strauss, follows the staff of Sweetwater's Donut Mill over a 24-hour period. You're treated to a behind-the-scenes look at a beloved local doughnut shop as it bakes five- to six-thousand doughnuts a day for its customers, many of whom keep their own coffee mugs there, a testamanent to the shop's quirkiness and hominess. I especially liked seeing the doughnut-filler machine in action and learning the term "cosmetic icing"—a glazing applied to blemished yet still edible specimens. 52 minutes. Available on DVD for $15 (includes shipping), at donutdaydoc.com
- Dishes, written, directed, and produced by Levine, is an earlier documentary that takes the viewer into the world of Fiesta Ware collectors. If you have one in your life—and who doesn't?—this doc will make you smile (knowingly), as it drags you along to a Fiesta Ware collectors' conference, a warehouse sale, and into the homes of individual Fiesta fiends. 46 minutes. Available on DVD for $20 (includes shipping), at fiestadocumentary.com
Related: Speaking of Sweetwater's, our favorite doughnut blogger, Bret Stetka (The Blognut), featured the place in his roundup of America's best doughnuts on MSN.
