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The Boyfriend went up to take a pic with the panda, but I wouldn't touch anything with a cheesy mascot and unabashedly try to be the next KFC. I'm glad you are brave enough to try so I don't have to. For that I thank you.

In fairness I have to retract my original post. My wife brought a tray of these to a dinner we went to the other night. 25 for $20 dollars. About as much as you'd spend to feed the same amount of people a cake. Everyone thought they were fun. They tasted great and you could sample a couple without stuffing yourself. We'd get them again.

ps I'm still a cupcake hater :)

They look so cute!

I think they are delicious! The chocolate peanut butter and red velvet were amazing! All were very moist and fresh. I got a dozen for $10, not bad for 3 people for dessert and we got to try a bunch of flavors.

Most other fancy cupcake places in the city will give you an old dry one more often than not. But all of Melissa's were fresh and moist.

And yeah she is not that nice, but who gives a damn? The best bakeries have old italian b.tches behind the counter.

I'm all for "mini" things usually but this photo made me sad

What a mess and not in a good way, it looks like it would taste as the majority who unfortunately took a bite of it. What did they do to get the taste and grease out of their mouth and mind?
Who was it that said there's a SUCKER born every minute! sick joke.
My liver hurts looking at all that grease and the MSG headache must be a whopper!

I'm a little worried that I found something so disturbing so funny. =/

I tried it last night. I liked it and ate the whole thing. Sure the freshly made roti pancake is greasy, but isn't it supposed to be for it to be delicious? I got the beef and egg. I think the egg helped. Thinking what would happen if I put a really good burger patty or some roast pork in there :)

Well anyway, thanks for writing about it. I'm glad I tried it.

Dang, Kung Fu Bing sounds right up my alley. Might have to try it today.

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That's funny Adam. I live in a brownstone Brooklyn neighborhood and several years ago many of the neighbors were all up in arms about a fast food joint was going to be placed in their neighborhood. The restaurant? A Nathan's.

It would have been interesting to see what dishes would have been made had the chefs not known that they were going to be judged for gender.

As in, would some have made stuff that "sterotypically" would have been the other gender anyway? Or would things actually fall along the theoretical stereotypes on male vs female cooking that you guys brought up? Clearly this was not intended as a big scientific study that would reach statistical significance...but double-blinding would have been nice.

I think it probably wouldn't necessarily have made a difference in the ability of the judges to determine who cooked the food (since I agree that factors other than sex are more important), but it would at least seem to be less intentional in getting the judges to guess wrong.

Gwen's explaination in the comments makes plenty of sense, though I think perhaps the Astor Center panel asked the wrong questions and that muddled the issue. What I take from Gwen's post is that there's sexism in restaurant kitchens, not that chefs' cooking is gendered. And of course that's important to talk about and understand the reasons why.

Restaurant sexism has assuredly been a part of the French haute cuisine tradition. Good rundown on this is here: ttp://www.stratsplace.com/rogov/women_chefs.html Also, "The Taste of America" by John and Karen Hess also touch on this, particularly on some sexist claptrap said by Paul Bocuse about how women could never be chefs.

In France, there's a distinction drawn between haute cuisine (in restaurants, prepared by men) and la cuisine de la bonne femme (at home, prepared by women). Logically, one is not better then the other, but which one has been accorded glory?

With the cooking and eating stunt I think the panel was trying to touch on the gender issues inherent in consumption of food, which to me is most interesting: why would a pink cocktail be girly? Why is red meat for dudes, while salads are for women? Some background on this can be found in Laura Shapiro's wonderful books "Something from the Oven" and "Perfection Salad."