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Posted by chisai, May 5, 2008 at 1:08 PM
There's this awesome article out today in AdAge Tub of Cool Whip too Challenging? Try the Can. It's both funny and scary. Because me? The challenges faced in opening individually sliced processed cheese food is far too daunting for me to get past.
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Posted by chisai, April 15, 2008 at 4:11 PM
I love McSweeny's, I really do. It's been a while since I've been there, but I hit them at lunch today and was again just taken aback by just how good their Reviews of New Food section is. If you've never been there, you should give it a shot. It's so much fun. R E V I E W S
O F N E W F O O D,
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Posted by chisai, April 11, 2008 at 10:03 AM
It seems like it would make sense, right? Has anyone here done it? Did it work?
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Posted by chisai, April 1, 2008 at 7:48 PM
For those few of you who have been following my short-lived romance with Amazing Guy, he's not so amazing, and I am blue. Break-Up Blue. And as such, am pounding down the Rum Raisin ice cream with no thought to calories or the inevitable 7 lb weight gain (because, yeah, I can be single and fat! That'll show everybody! I swear, sometimes I really believe I am 12 years old). Honestly, I am exaggerating a bit. It's really not all that bad (save massive ice cream consumption), but it got me thinking. What's your go-to food for romance misery? Do you get all weepy and ice creamy? Or all "I'll show him/her" and go on a diet and work out like an animal? Does the Chinese delivery place down the block know your order by heart? Waddaya do?
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Posted by chisai, March 28, 2008 at 6:13 PM
Okay, I'll admit it. I own cookbooks that I will never ever use. The recipes are secondary. Its all about the pictures. Gloriously lit and laid out, incredibly detailed, calling my name. I go thru them like men reading Hustler. Right now I am thoroughly in love with Morimoto: The New Art of Japanese Cooking, a book filled with such gorgeosity that I can't even pick my favorite centerfold.
Do you have any books like this? What are your favorite cook books based solely on the photography?
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Posted by chisai, March 24, 2008 at 8:34 PM
This is a spin-off from the Anthony Bourdain posting, which was awesome... Thanks Adam!
If I were to start my own food network, conveniently named chisaiFood, who would I ideally want on my programming schedule?
Ina Garten (the woman can cook)
Julia Child's old PBS show
Jaques Pepin (who through the power of television taught me how to dice a large Spanish onion in under a minute - thus impressing all my friends)
Jean-Georges Vongrichten - (my favorite chef in the entire known universe; I go to his restaurants at every available opportunity)
Sara Moulton (not the greatest cook in the world, but one who explains things clearly in a way that makes things accessible)
David Rosengarten (maybe a little prissy, but he breaks things down piece by piece until you've got it)
Alton Brown (nuff said)
Masaharu Morimoto (clearly, he'd need an interpreter, but oh my goodness, what we could learn from this man)
Thomas Keller (well spoken, brilliant chef)
I know there are several others, but the post has size limits.
How about you? What would your ideal food channel be?
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Posted by chisai, March 24, 2008 at 4:32 PM
Lately I've been falling in love with French food products. I'd never been a big fan of the heavy cream and butter school, but I do love the other stuff. Does anyone have recommendations for short term French cooking classes in NYC? I don't want to do anything major, just maybe over a couple of weekends. I figure that if anyone could point me in the right direction, it would be my fellow posters at SE. Any ideas? Any Stay Away Froms?
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Posted by chisai, March 14, 2008 at 7:38 PM
We often talk about all time favorites here, but what are your favorite new cookbooks?
My new favorite is Hiedi Swanson's Super Natural Cooking. It's wonderful. I just got it a couple of weeks ago and thus far, every recipe I've made from it has been really good. With the added addition of actually being healthy, which is kind of nice.
Do you have any new, hot-off-the-presses cookbook faves? Please, share. If there's one thing I love it's a new fabulous cookbook.
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Posted by chisai, March 10, 2008 at 9:23 PM
I was deeply in love with the teriyaki burgers at Trader Vic's in the International Market Place in Honolulu. Best burger in the world. Anyhow, god know, I've tried to replicate it, but with the most dismal results. They have a cookbook available online, but there's no TOC for me to check if it's on it, and since it's more of a kitchy party book, I'm kinda doubting its there or I'd just buy it.
So, does anyone make an awesome teriyaki burger? And will share the recipe? Please? It's been dogging my for years. My dad, still a resident, was sent on a mission years ago. His super-secret-restaurant-spy findings? "My girlfriend says it tastes like a sweet teriyaki burger. You know I don't eat meat." This does not help.
So please, anyone?
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Posted by chisai, March 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM
Awesome New Guy made me dinner tonight. It was scary bad. The rest follows as a comment as it was too long.
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