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Tenderloin burgers, a debate

I was at a restaurant last week and I saw a tenderloin burger on the menu. I immediately knew I was in for a pretentious and overwrought adventure through culinary misfortune. I didn't order the burger, but I wasn't wrong about the restaurant. Tenderloin doesn't have a high enough fat content for a burger, and it's all together foolish to waste a beautiful tenderloin on such a dramatic misappropriation of its talents.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia

In the style of a spanish bocata de jamon: Crusty spanish/french style baguette and prosciutto. Nothing else. Simple and wonderful, and reminds me of my summer in Spain.

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McDonald's to Roll Out Breakfast Dollar Menu

I wish McDonald's breakfast was all day... It's a very rare occasion that I choose to eat McDonald's, but a McGriddle makes for unbelievably good hangover food. Pair that with a cheap cup of coffee that's not half bad, and my headache starts to disappear.

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Tenderloin burgers, a debate

I was at a restaurant last week and I saw a tenderloin burger on the menu. I immediately knew I was in for a pretentious and overwrought adventure through culinary misfortune. I didn't order the burger, but I wasn't wrong about the restaurant. Tenderloin doesn't have a high enough fat content for a burger, and it's all together foolish to waste a beautiful tenderloin on such a dramatic misappropriation of its talents.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: La Quercia

In the style of a spanish bocata de jamon: Crusty spanish/french style baguette and prosciutto. Nothing else. Simple and wonderful, and reminds me of my summer in Spain.

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McDonald's to Roll Out Breakfast Dollar Menu

I wish McDonald's breakfast was all day... It's a very rare occasion that I choose to eat McDonald's, but a McGriddle makes for unbelievably good hangover food. Pair that with a cheap cup of coffee that's not half bad, and my headache starts to disappear.

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Mario Batali's Jarred Pasta Sauces

If you watch Batali's "Authors@google" talk(youtube it), you will see that one of the audience questions is a man essentially begging him to bring back his line of sauces. Appartenly, they originally were released through Trader Joe's exclusively, but Batali terminated the agreement when TJ's altered the recipe without consulting him. I think $6 a jar is just too much for a broke college student like me.
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Cook the Book: 'Big Bob Gibson's BBQ Book'

I have limited barbecue eating experience, but Armadillo Willy's in the SF bay area always hit the spot.

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Who Likes Grape Soda?

I adore grape soda. That wonderful faux-grape chemical taste is awesome. For that matter, i love all manner of fruit flavored sodas not common in the US. Strawberry, grape, and most of all, apple. Apple is commonly available in spain under the "kas" brand. It tastes like a soda version of a green jolly rancher. So delicious.
Mmmmm... Kas Manzana.

I'm told it's also common in Mexico.

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Hoagie Haven in Princeton, NJ: Phat Ladies, Chocolate Cheesesteaks, and Happy Undergrads

The UCLA equivalent has to be a restaurant affectionately known as buck fitties($.50). The late night fast food stand, now Tommy's Tacos, is still referred to as buck fitties, even by students who never attended UCLA when that was still its' proper name, including myself.
The food is more or less what you would expect for a restaurant open until 3AM, with burgers and burritos topping the menu. However, buck fitties' signature dish has to be their dream fries, an order best eaten while in what SE would call an "altered state." Dream fries consist of a base layer of french fries, covered in cheese and steak or bacon, topped with sour cream and avocado. Just a short walk from fraternity row and the majority of westwood's apartments, the line gets long after 2AM when hungry undergrads leave their parties to grab a bite. A drunk meal at buck fitties is absolutely a prerequisite for graduation.

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Aluminum cookware safety issues

LunaOier and Kerosena: well done. Just wanted to add a third voice agreeing with them. There is absolutely 0 causal link between aluminum and alzheimers.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

Although, I asked an alzheimers researcher friend of mine once, and she informed me that there is some evidence that alzheimers can cause higher levels of aluminum in the body, but never the other way around.

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Going to be in LA LA land next week

If you can get to the Kogi truck while you are here, it's really special.

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Uses for Fried Eggs

Ahh many amazing ideas. I especially like the black bean cakes!
Thanks everybody!

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Hell's Kitchen...WTF??

It's an awful show. Ramsay hosts it without an ounce of taste or class. The chefs have a total lack of basic culinary knowledge. The contestants seem to have below average intelligence, and I would imagine so does the targeted viewer.

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Steingarten for sure. Let Marco Pierre White stay on TV, ban Ramsay from appearing in front of television cameras. I must admit that I love cooking reality TV. But, Hell's kitchen is simply unwatchable and completely tasteless.

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Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity.
Eta Sigma Chapter (UCLA).
Initiate #286

I'm an undergraduate and a fraternity boy. And I live in the city of Kogi and Umami and a million other wonderful culinary opportunities.
I am your frat boy readership.

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