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Cocina Savant
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Weekly pictures, recipes, and thoughts from a husband and wife who love books and cooking for each other.

The seafood po boy looks mighty tasty. That makes me want to run to the Chesapeake Bay this weekend.

Way to go, Ed! Now get back on track with eating and exercise, and you'll be fine!

Honestly, weight gained from eating usually takes a few days (all that food needs some time to turn into fat!!!)

I was in NOLA the suimmer before last, when Cochon was pretty new, and it was SPECTACULAR. I went twice. So, I second that, and I also second Jacque-imo's. Get the shrimp and alligator sausage cheesecake. Trust me.

No matter where you go, you're gonna do well with pork and shellfish. It's just a paradise of food.

I was in New Orleans a few months ago, and tried Cochon (on Frank Bruni's top ten list of new restaurants for 2007), and it wasn't amazing. It may have been an off-day, so I won't judge, but I'd say skip lunch and go for dinner. The Feelings Cafe is a pretty local Marigny spot for a French-Cajun meal. You must go to Mimi's in the Marigny as well. It is super-hip two story bar/lounge with great tapas and some really great nawlins jazz. It's like having a stand-up bass and saxophone in your living room.

Thank you, Adam. Great blogroll!

Blog name: pastrystudio
My URL: http://pastrystudio.blogspot.com/
What it's about/tagline: I have a reverence for classical pastry technique as well as endless curiosity for international traditions and modern flavor juxtapositions. My blog is about simple, fresh, minimally sweet handmade objects of desire.

Duh. Here is the proper link for Hunter Angler Gardener Cook.

Blog name : Cooking Monster
url : http://www.cookingmonster.com
What it's about : mostly my ramblings about cooking, along with recipes, new and old, I've had success with ... and rather than keeping them on index cards, I figured I'd share them with the world.

I'll leave my new blog under the Serious Eats Christmas Eve tree here.

It's called Fast Food Feminist .

Today's story is about a Christmas ham in what used to be East Berlin.

I haven't told the story of how I was given the name "Fast Food Feminist" yet. That's probably like a New Year's Day story. :)

Blake, I'm biased and would have rooted for the Vietnamese banh mi xiu (sao) mai too. Xiu mai is the Cantonese term for a pork and shrimp dumpling but the Vietnamese have appropriated the name to mean a meatball. The sandwich is a recent invention and in its po' boy incarnation, it's now a Vietnamese-Chinese-Louisiana kind of sandwich. How American is that?! I love it.

Thanks for the posting and your enthusiasm for Vietnamese food.

Ed, what are your favorite banh mi places in manhattan? My girlfriend lives on mott by banh mi bakery, she says its delicious, although I haven't tried it yet with me being stuck in the nether-regions of the south for the better part of the year. I tried a place on mott and broome, not sure what it was called, pretty good although not very spicy.

Blog Name: The Kitchen Scale
URL: http://thekitchenscale.typepad.com/the_kitchen_scale/
What it's about: Trying to reconcile a love for food and weight loss. Mostly recipes and whatnot with the occasional rant about weight loss/body image. Its not a blog about what anyone should do, but its a chronicle of something everyone struggles with. Sometimes the food will be conducive to weight loss and sometimes not so much.

The blog is still a baby, I'm still finding my voice, and its been on a little break, but will be returning soon. Any feedback would be really helpful and appreciated.