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What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like
Wow. Someone certainly got a nice tip!
Book Giveaway: Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to NYC
Certainly not off the radar, but every time I've visited coming from the West Coast somehow I always miss going to Di Fara Pizza. Next time it's my first place when I land, and last before I depart NY.
Dinner Tonight: Patty Melt
The patty melt has always been my thing and growing up in Los Angeles I've ingested quite a few from delis, diners, hamburger stands, and restaurants.
While I don't have a "go-to" per say for my perfect melt, I can share the best two I've had in recent memory.
Best standard came from an old school diner attached to the Linbrook Bowling Center in Anaheim, CA. It was under $5, came with fries, and was greasily perfect. I came here pulling off the freeway in search for lunch, saw the bowling alley, and vaguely remember Huell Howser on PBS going there for pizza. Thank you Huell!
On the complete opposite price spectrum I had my first, and probably only, $20 patty melt. Prior to walking into the "Boneyard Bistro" in Sherman Oaks, CA, I had no idea such a thing existed.
It was called the “Southwest Patty Melt” and came with gruyere and cheddar cheese, sautéed onions, anaheim chilies, and bacon. It sounds crazy to pay $20 for a patty melt, but after one bite I practically fell out of my chair in a pool of smiles.
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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Ok, so maybe this doesn't quite fit the definition of "extreme" eating, but I thought the garlic ice cream I had at the "Garlic Festival" years back was way-out-there.
To be honest it wasn't as crazy or disgusting as I thought it would be, and to be even more honest, I kinda liked it.
What A $47,221 Lunch Looks Like
Wow. Someone certainly got a nice tip!
Book Giveaway: Mike Colameco's Food Lover's Guide to NYC
Certainly not off the radar, but every time I've visited coming from the West Coast somehow I always miss going to Di Fara Pizza. Next time it's my first place when I land, and last before I depart NY.
Dinner Tonight: Patty Melt
The patty melt has always been my thing and growing up in Los Angeles I've ingested quite a few from delis, diners, hamburger stands, and restaurants.
While I don't have a "go-to" per say for my perfect melt, I can share the best two I've had in recent memory.
Best standard came from an old school diner attached to the Linbrook Bowling Center in Anaheim, CA. It was under $5, came with fries, and was greasily perfect. I came here pulling off the freeway in search for lunch, saw the bowling alley, and vaguely remember Huell Howser on PBS going there for pizza. Thank you Huell!
On the complete opposite price spectrum I had my first, and probably only, $20 patty melt. Prior to walking into the "Boneyard Bistro" in Sherman Oaks, CA, I had no idea such a thing existed.
It was called the “Southwest Patty Melt” and came with gruyere and cheddar cheese, sautéed onions, anaheim chilies, and bacon. It sounds crazy to pay $20 for a patty melt, but after one bite I practically fell out of my chair in a pool of smiles.
Cook the Book: The Southern Italian Table
Spaghetti alla puttanesca. Olive oil, capers, maybe some anchovies, fresh garlic and oregano is all that is needed to make a perfect puttanesca, or more appropriately "whores spaghetti."
The Burger Lab: The Fake Shack
As someone from CA who visited NY a few months ago, fell in love with this burger, and sadly had to return home to only have dreams about eating eating the Shack Burger again you've saved me.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Did I say thank you?
Highlights from My Year in Hamburgers
Holy gustation Damon! I can't believe it's been an entire year of eagerly waiting and reading your new reviews.
I to like some of the others remember AHT asking for writers, applying myself and being declined, and then reading news of your appointment and your very first review, knowing instantly that I lost to a truly worthy opponent. I bow to you sir.
It's been a wonderful year and I congratulate you on keeping burgers in my life. Keep on eating and I'll keep on reading!
Cook the Book: Pumpkin Baking
I don't really have a favorite...per say... but a scoop of canned pumpkin in my morning oatmeal topped with cinnamon, brown sugar, and a little butter is certainly tummy pleasing.
Cook the Book: 'Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon'
I love bacon because it gives my waistline a visible hug!
Cook the Book: 'Dishing Up Vermont'
California's eponymous "California Roll."
Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'
Best BBQ would be from Bludso's BBQ in Compton, CA.
Cook the Book: 'Bite-Size Desserts'
Pretzel + Chocolate = : )
Cook the Book: 'Burger Bar'
A not to sweet hickory sauce and a fried onion! I'm salivating just thinking of it.
Cook the Book: 'Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies'
The day I successfully made meringue after many failed attempts was akin to me finally learning to tie my shoes. Amazing.
Cook the Book: 'The Barcelona Cookbook'
My most memorable tapas experience would be at AOC Winebar in Los Angeles. It was the first place I experienced dates stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon.
Surprisingly Good Burger at Springbok Bar & Grill in Van Nuys, California
Thanks for this particular review. I've driven past it for the last few years and have often wondered about it, and now you've given me a reason to finally stop my car and walk in.
On a different note, last night I had one of the best and most expensive ($20!) patty melts at Boneyard Bistro in Sherman Oaks. If this was any indication of what a choice from their burger menu would be like you may consider making this a place to try in the future.
www.boneyardbistro.com
Five Burger Joints CNN Wants You to Visit
The Hodad's bacon cheeseburger is indeed one mighty delicious burger. One of the better ones that comes to mind though there are certainly many to be had.
Dunkin' Donuts Waffle Breakfast Sandwich vs. McD's McGriddle
I'm curious how you go about these reviews. Do you do your anatomy breakdown and photographs from a set of two, buy two more, and immediately taste? Or do your diagnosis only on a pair and use the same one for tasting?
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'American Cheeses'
Gotta give it to the Crater Lake Blue. Mmmm...blue cheese.
The Fix Burger in Silverlake, California, Is Good But Still Trying to Get It Right
Sounds like a burger to try, and after perusing their on-line menu, I'm particularly peaked by the sound of The Rodeo Burger. If their onion rings were standout then I imagine on a burger with bacon would only help the matter.
A question: Do you recommend getting American added to The Fix Burger for the $1 extra to add that bit of needed fat, orr is the way to go really the 1/4 baby Fix Burger with cheese?
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Edible Chocolate Box from Charles Chocolates
Does Mallomars count? I just bought a box!
Cook the Book: 'How to Cook Everything, Revised Tenth Anniversary Edition'
I hate the need to kneed bread which his "no kneeding bread" tip solved.
Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Two Peter Luger Steaks
Talk about a contest with some meat on it! I'm going with the ribeye. Fatty, meaty, perfect.
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
It's mentioned a lot in the comment section for a reason. Brussels Sprouts with Bacon!
Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!
Woah woah woah. Back up the bakery truck.
Pumpkin Cheesecake with Marshmallow-Sour Cream Topping and Gingersnap Crust? Let me get this completely clear.
Pumpkin Cheesecake, WITH a Mashmallow-Sour Cream Topping, AND a Gingersnap Crust.
Consider me passed out on the floor drooling in my sugar induced coma.
Do You Put Ranch Dressing on Pizza?
How do you get a white trash girl to suck your d**k?
Dip it in ranch dressing.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
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Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
i ate head cheese. i regretted it.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Dinuguan, because all my relatives told me it was chocolate stew.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
I think gator is as adventurous as I've gone.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Grasshopper, cow brain
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
I grew up eating tripe and vastedda (stomach lining and spleen), I have also tried testicles (a bit chewy), aligator, kangaroo, etc...pretty much anything, except for any kind of insects!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Snake, abalone, sea cucumber, durian, alligator, moose, kangaroo.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
I went to an insect foods event in Montreal once, and sampled everything on offer.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
When I was young I ate my parasitic twin.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
On a business trip to the Philippines my local coworkers insisted on me trying the local delicacy of Balut(fetal duck egg). While this may sound like the most exotic i'd have to say that really it was later in the night when i ate some chicharon bulaklak which is deep fried and is apparently a fatty sack that covers the small intestine of a pig. It was actually quite good and definitely better than the balut.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
snake 4 ways (soup, stir-fry, deep-fry, blood mixed with vodka as a shot, - taiwan
crickets stuffed with french fries and deep friend - taiwan
live fish with only head half deep-fried, tail half served raw - taiwan
bull penis / turkey testicle - ny (izakaya place)
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Live grubs in the Amazon. You turn them inside out with a stick, and eat the fatty insides, spitting out the hard head. Yum-o (not).
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Dog cooked in a spicy stew. Raw sea urchin eggs (scooped up from freshly cracked live urchin) - very intense saline taste. Japanese squid shiokara (salted, fermented seafood - very, very slimy). On a similar note: bakasang from the North Sulawesi region of Indonesia (a grey sludge of a very pungent condiment made of salted, fermented fish, similar to bagoong from the Phillipines).
Plus other foods considered extreme by others (based on the comments here), but completely normal for me:
- cow tongue, brain, tripe, heart
- pork ear, blood, feet/hock
- chicken feet, intestines (deep fried, they're great snacks!), gizzard, liver, heart
- goat's feet
- bats (body and wings)
- 'thousand year' eggs
- durian! (luv' em since I was a kid)
- sea cucumber, jellyfish, etc.
But I do have my limits: no bugs, larvae, worms and other creepy crawlies...
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
the Phaal at Brick Lane Curry House in NYC. I've finished it three times. The vegetable version hurt the most.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
I make chicken and duck feet every once and a while, but some friends and I are really struggling to give Balut Eggs a shot. There's nothing I won't try, but the likely issue of texture scares the hell out of me.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
My next door neighbor..................
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Uni. I'm a wimp, I know.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
pasta with duck testicles and cocks comb
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Wow, considering how many times I saw what I thought was extreme having been consumed by others, too...apparently, I'm not an extreme eater. Insects, those are inadvertant, calf fries (mmm...), toungue, McD's burgers, sushi...I guess my weirdest was sweetbreads when I was 10. I recall they were delicious, but we never went back to the restaurant.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
Lamb tongue. I'm looking for an opportunity to try grasshoppers.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
I'd like to try seaweed.
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
i've had fried scorpions on a stick, fermented tofu on a stick, chicken claws, eggs of some animal i didnt dare to ask (though they were black, slimy, and most certaintly tasted a bit off)...
and like others, ive sworn of mcdonalds and all other fast food for a long while now!
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
It's only extreme to my husband and friends Uni sushi. I love it . No it's not weird but that is it so far...
Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Extreme Cuisine'
What's with all the Vegemite horror? It's just a by-product of beer manufacture. Beer, guys! Hardly the equivalent of rats' intestines or bear entrails!
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Ok, so maybe this doesn't quite fit the definition of "extreme" eating, but I thought the garlic ice cream I had at the "Garlic Festival" years back was way-out-there.
To be honest it wasn't as crazy or disgusting as I thought it would be, and to be even more honest, I kinda liked it.