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Make Cocktails with Vodka from The Cocktail Chronicles
Serious Eats contributor Paul Clarke calls upon mixologists to make cocktails with vodka in his blog The Cocktail Chronicles. He says vodka works well "as a vehicle and softener for bold flavors, rather than simply as an alcohol-delivery device."...Is Vodka Dead?
©iStockphoto.com/YinYang Eric Felten, the drinks columnist for the Wall Street Journal, seems to think so. He cites this year’s edition of Food & Wine’s annual cocktail compilation, Cocktails ’09, as proof of vodka’s demotion in the cocktail world. This year’s book has only ten vodka-based drinks, Felten notes, whereas the 2005 edition had 60. He openly celebrates the decline of all kinds of -tinis in favor of drinks based on gin, brandy, and other intensely flavored spirits. “As a way to inject unobtrusive alcoholic content into sugary drinks,” he writes of vodka, “the spirit is unsurpassed…But vodka's neutrality and uniformity would seem to be at odds with the slow-food crowd's embrace of robust flavors reflecting specific locales.” Is vodka...Washington Post Food Section Roundup: It's All About Valentine's Day (and Vodka)
Erin Hartigan's Sure-Fire Rules for Sparks in the Kitchen is about the do's and don'ts of cooking as a date activity: "When it comes to cooking together, an otherwise compatible new couple can break down faster than a sauce sabayon. The annals of my own dating history are singed with kitchen mishaps. During a triple first-date cooking night at my best friend's place, each couple helped produce a meal of chicken pot stickers, spaghetti with meat sauce and Key lime pie. Nobody wanted to take control; we socialized as pasta turned to mush and pots boiled over. What began as a promising soiree ended early, with six scowls and three inedible courses." Other highlights: In A Drink to Make You...Gender Politics of the Tomato, and Then Some
- Men pick tomatoes, but women are preferred as they are perceived to be gentler and therefore there is less damage to the crop. Men stack the crates of tomatoes on flatbed trailers which are connected to trailers. - 25,000 Russians die each year from chemical poisoning from illegally produced vodka - Peanuts contribute more than $4 billion to the U.S. economy every year Check out the edification process undergone by the students of St. Cloud University's Sociology 464.....Hot Topics: Technique of the Week | The Food Lab
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8 Delicious Chocolate Cakes and Pies for Valentine's Day
Some might say that chocolate on Valentine's Day is about as unoriginal as you can get. We all remember the first heart-shaped box of overly sweet chocolate bonbons from grade school Valentines. But chocolate gift-giving needn't be a cliché. This year, let's bake our sweethearts chocolate cakes and pies instead! Here are 8 delicious recipes perfect for celebrating your love (of chocolate.)
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