Serious Eats Meet-Up: Sunday July 27 at the Red Hook Ball Fields
Oh, to be free for the weekend and be living on the East coast!
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Chocolate Frozen Yogurt
I think Yogurt may just be my new, favorite ingredient. I've been making yogurt cheese now every couple of weeks and it is, by far, my most beloved home made ingredient in the fridge!
http://foodwoolf.blogspot.com/2008/06/say-cheese.html
Thanks for the great recipe!
Best Ice Cream in America's Best Ice Cream Town?
I live in LA and still dream of Christina's...
Christina's all the way!
Father's Day Gift Guide: Food and Wallet-Friendly Wines
I went ahead and got my dad a snack pack from Zingerman's to be delivered early for Dad's day...Do you think Dad would mind if I borrowed some of your ideas?
Brooke
Tastespotting - what happened?
I loved Tastespotting and found it to be an invaluable site for my food blogging and recipe searching. I hope something else comes along to take its place because clearly there is a REAL NEED for a site like this.
Market Scene: Summer Starts in Santa Monica
Great report! I've never been a big stone fruit fan, but this season's fruits from the market are changing my mind! Thanks for all the great insights!
Brooke
In Videos: Sneak Peek at Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow's Spanish Road Trip
I'm sorry people, but I am THOROUGHLY excited to watch this show. Gwenny might not be my favorite actress in the world, but if she can hold her own against Mario Batali on a culinary road trip (i.e. eating and drinking along side him for 18 hours straight is no easy task), then I'm all for watching her.
Foodwoolf
Los Angeles's Best Dining Experiences
Here here! P. Kuh knows what he's talking about! Fresh market produce, great meat and fish and a casual elegance is what Los Angeles dining is all about. Kuh is a master. I admire how he can boil down an entire city's worth of dining in just a handful of paragraphs!
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In Videos: Gordon Ramsay on 'Late Night with Conan O'Brien'
The Conan/Ramsay cooking show segment is absolutely brilliant. I wish those two could cook together every week. A wonderfully mismatched cooking team. I could watch those two drive each other crazy every week!
Food Woolf
My Bit Part as an Extra in 'Julie and Julia'
What a great story. Thank you so much for all the wonderful details!
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Serious Eats Meet-Up: Sunday July 27 at the Red Hook Ball Fields
Sweet. I'll try to make it out if it's not pouring. I loves me a huarache on a sunny summer day...
Best Ice Cream in America's Best Ice Cream Town?
Of course Steve's is a pale shadow--it was sold many years ago, and Steve Herrell moved his operation to Northampton, MA, where he's been beloved for many years. Moving back in on Boston is only right.
Tastespotting - what happened?
From the front page:
"we're just marinating a bit longer, but tastespotting will be back shortly..."
Tastespotting - what happened?
The site also mentions a new site they're working on: Liquorious in alpha, devoted to, you guessed it - drinks! This may tide some of you over for a bit.
My Bit Part as an Extra in 'Julie and Julia'
How fun was that?! I was in Paris June 3-8 and happened upon a side street with tight security. YES! Meryl Streep was on the set, and all I could see were black screens with a lot of crew members hanging around. If only I had known the dress code, perhaps I could have been an extra, too. Maybe next time.
Tastespotting - what happened?
WAIT! DONT WORRY! I just went on to the tastespotting website and it says that the site will be back up and running shortly!!! I am sooooo happy now!!!!
Tastespotting - what happened?
Thanks for taking into account my concerns, both FP daily and gawker are looking good and even though I have asked my hubby if we could take up the void left behind when TS left ('would love to, but seriously, we don't have the time'), I am glad someone is. Just hoping it/they will be close to as good as TS was. :)
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocuisine Regarding Food Gawker, we are definitely rejecting submissions. The photo quality will continue to increase (to get onto Food Gawker) as the quantity of posts increases.
As far as image resizing is concerned, we are just cropping and not resizing similar to TS. The occasional pixelation that you are seeing is due to a reduction of image quality to 94%. We just upped it to 96%. Since we aren't monetizing the site currently and paying for hosting on our on dime, we need to stay wary of our hosting bandwidth usage. We hope to not reduce image quality in the near future.
Finally, I want to thank everyone who has visited the site. The response has been really positive so far!
Tastespotting - what happened?
@fotocusine: thanks for the input... though right now I'm not thinking I'll ever make mine that similar to tastespotting. I wouldn't be able to keep up with it! And I plan on rejected photos that I don't like, too, and maybe getting some dialouge going about what makes a good photo.
About the resizing, I'm going to nix it. Yesterday I thought I'd make all the photos as near to 500 px wide so it looks uniform and clean, but I check the site on a PC today and it looked crappy.
I do like food gawker a lot for its tastespottingness. Great job, Chuck!
Tastespotting - what happened?
2 things about these tastespotting copies:
okey, I love that all these tastespotting copies are coming up but,
1. i liked that they rejected stuff, and i know it ticked people off, and would leave me scratching my head as to why some stuff was up and some wouldn't (they rejected two of mine that kinda made me rethink some stuff) but i LIKED that. and i think that is what needed in a replacement.
2. Tastespotting either requested a 250x250 pixel photo or they would cut 250x250 out of your picture, they didn't resize.
these posted links above seem to be resizing or shrinking to fit in an area that they don't fit, therefor the pictures are pixalated (spell?) and look bad.
Website: http://foodwoolf.blogspot.com
Location: Los Angeles
About: Writer, restaurant professional and food blogger. Obsessed by food, wine and the restaurant industry.
Favorite foods: Pizza at Pizzeria Mozza, Los Angeles, rustic fare (lamb shank, brandade, a bowl of well made pasta), Thai, cheese (the well-made, imported kind), pastries and anything that's coming out of my kitchen.
Last bite on earth: I'm in Panicale, Italy eating Bistecca Fiorentina, pici a la cacio et pepe, broccoli rabe, and then a bowl of ricotta fresca topped with chestnut honey with my husband.