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Have You Ever Tried These Jamaican Irish Moss Drinks?

Irish moss is also used in the last 20 minutes of brewing beer to help clarify the final product.

Modernist Cuisine Releases Special Edition Baking Steel

Don't support patent trolls!!

Sriracha and Pizza! (Okay, so I'm a little slow!)

Pepperoni & Pineapple pizza with Tapatio is the best combo

Top This: The Salad Pizza (à la Grey Block Pizza)

This used to be Abbot's Pizza co, I believe the same as the one on Abbot Kinney which still has the Abbot's name.

The Food Lab: Can I Dry Age Beef At Home?

Maybe if you use a sanitized mini-fridge and place fresh steaks along with a store bought dry-aged steak to harvest the proper bacteria, you could get some better flavor results?

Holiday Giveaway: The Amazing Thermapen Thermometer

Wort that will soon be a delicious IPA

Behind the Sweets: Mara Jozefi Creates Transylvanian Pastries at Chimney Cake Island

I guess I can't edit my comment, but I meant "Israel", not "Tel Israel". I first wrote Tel Aviv, as that was the location I went to, but apparently they have several locations across the country.

Knead the Book: The Art of Baking Bread

Shaping for sure

Behind the Sweets: Mara Jozefi Creates Transylvanian Pastries at Chimney Cake Island

There's a chain in Tel Israel that makes incredible ones: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2wuW0UfRj8

Cook the Book: 'The Homemade Pantry'

How to Make Rummy Bears and Other Drunken Gummies

What, no Whiskey Sour Patch Kids?

Chain Reaction: My First Time at In-N-Out

I agree on the fries not being good. They are better if you get them well done, but I think the fries at 5 Guys smokes the ones at In & Out.

What Food Goes Best with IPA?

Father's Office Burger and a Pliny the Elder on tap. Yes, its a DIPA but why get anything else?

Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: The Sriracha Lover's Ultimate Gift Pack

it goes great on tabasco sauce

Poll: The Pizza Bed Name Game

If its a girl, "Bianca" and if its a guy, "Cecil Ian".

This may be how Papa John got its name.

Preserved: Banana Butter with Pumpkin Pie Spice

made this last night and it came out great, thanks!

Candy A Day: Sour Patch Kids

@kenji - I agree with you 100% on the sour coating being marketable. I'm pretty sure its mostly citric acid on there, which I've bought from kosher markets, sometimes they package it as "sour salt". You gotta sprinkle some on fresh fruit and also dried cranberries, it seriously makes everything better. Want to go into business?

Dinner Tonight: Tomato Egg Drop Soup

Typo Alert - You "dropped" the eggs from the recipe list

Cook the Book: 'Home Made'

making my own bbq sauce

Cook the Book: 'The Butcher's Guide to Well-Raised Meat'

Well raised to me means that its high enough from the heat source that it doesn't catch fire.

Los Angeles: The DIY Burger at Mo's Needs a Better Patty

Before it was Mo's it was Hampton's, and has maintained the same burger bar for much earlier than 1995, maybe someone else knows the date.

Weirdest Sausage We've Ever Eaten: Rattlesnake and Rabbit at Wurst Tex in Austin

I've had the rattlesnake rabbit sausage at Wurstkuche Los Angeles, and thought it was good, but very mild. I would've preferred something with a lil more kick to it.

Father's Day Giveaway: Win a Two-Pound Cowboy Chop

Entrecôte... because it means I'm eating steak on vacation.

Cook the Book: 'The Book of New Israeli Food'

I've grown up with several friends who's families were Israeli, so I can't remember my very first experience with Israeli food, but here are some of my favorite Israeli dishes:
Shawarma in Laffa bread with a ton of "chips" (french fries), turkish salad and amba.
Malauach Pizza
Sabich
Fresh Trout from the Dan River

Weekend Book Giveaway: 'Roadfood'

Well since gas is a little pricey these days, and I'm already in LA, I'd do a staycation road trip around LA trying out all the hot burger joints I haven't yet experienced.

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