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Children's Book Giveaway: 'Chopsticks'

I have no clue of its name, but it's this *thing*: made out of wood, looking like a giant chopstick that never separates, with two chops-like limbs that happen to be flat. Weird looking but oh-so-helpful when getting bread out of the toaster!

mtgall at 9:44PM on 01/28/12

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Recchiuti Chocolate Bars

Macarons!

mtgall at 1:38PM on 12/24/11

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Bake the Book: 'Momofuku Milk Bar'

Wow, OK -
Looks: Taking the clean, modern style of the bakery in the movie "It's Complicated" and giving it a more eclectic, funky spin.
Location: Debatable, could be New York, Montreal or Boston.
Ideally, I'd be working with a different genius everyday of the week (Monday I'd invite Tosi, then Tuesday can be Falkner...and so on).
Ugh, again, why can't this be real?

mtgall at 3:13PM on 10/26/11

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Scooped: Speculoos-Stroopwafel Ice Cream

Funny, in my house we always called them Speculaas and we could only get them once a year when we went to Aruba. Until today I had no idea there was such a thing as "speculoos spread", thank you!

mtgall at 9:18PM on 09/23/11

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Ladurée Now Open on Manhattan's Upper East Side

Seriously NY, can you pile on even more reasons to make me want to visit you someday?

mtgall at 4:18PM on 09/04/11

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10 Must-Try Sweets in Paris

My face grew sadder as the remaining slides started to decrease...

mtgall at 8:26PM on 08/31/11

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Introducing David Lebovitz Week

(smile)

mtgall at 3:44PM on 07/11/11

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Sara Lee Pound Cake vs. Entenmann's Loaf Cake

Your testers are so spot on, Sara Lee's texture is like biting a Tempur-Pedic pillow

mtgall at 5:20PM on 06/23/11

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We Try Every Cheesecake at the Cheesecake Factory

My face when I read the tittle of this post was literally this: :O

mtgall at 5:54PM on 06/20/11

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Bake the Book: 'Miette: Recipes from San Francisco's Most Charming Pastry Shop'

I'll go with Konditor & Cook in London, because around my sister's birthday I googled "Best Bakeries in London" and that came up first. Then I thought I probably wouldn't have the time to take the trip to the "best bakery in London"...by coincidence there was one less than a block away!

mtgall at 3:28PM on 06/20/11

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Welcome to Serious Eats: Sweets!

This is awesome, and I'm SO glad you guys are looking into that search engine problem. It's a minor thing but that there's the intention of fixing it...just sweet!

mtgall at 3:21PM on 06/20/11

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Do You Have a Favorite Spot for Free Peanuts?

I'm really a big fan of Five Guys's free peanut policy but hadnt't noticed it until today. One more reason to love them!

mtgall at 9:45PM on 05/12/11

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Edible DIY: Honey Vanilla Fluff

Awesome!!
@hendrixe - there was a post (a post?) about fluffernutters in SE some time ago, I remember because that's how I learned some people called them that way. By the way, the Shake Shack in Miami had a Fluffernutter-flavored custard but I failed to go that day...oh, well!

mtgall at 7:16PM on 05/11/11

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Ed Levine's Caloric Journey, Week 170: A Change in Course

Some years ago I read (I think it was in Reader's Digest) about a study they did to a group of people attempting to lose weight. Those that kept a food journal lost (in average) twice more weight than those that didn't. The change of using a scale every two, three weeks is very wise. I'm using the app "Lose It!", but it is kind of "obsessive" the way it counts calories! Anyway, best wishes!

mtgall at 1:43AM on 05/08/11

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Cook the Book: 'The Southern Foodways Alliance Community Cookbook'

I have got to be honest, when I hear "south", my brain instantly wants cornbread!

mtgall at 10:50PM on 05/01/11

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Cook the Book: 'Plenty'

Things like pasta with radicchio always get my attention!

mtgall at 3:27PM on 03/31/11

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The Best Doughnuts in NYC

Wait, a dozen for $4.50? That's simply dangerous. In a delicious way of course.

mtgall at 10:09PM on 03/23/11

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Dulces: Tres Leches Cake

I absolutely love tres leches cake! I'll be making this is one, however, I know I'm already biased because my mom makes an awesome tres leches. Not only that, my godmother makes a killer cuatro leches as well, yes, four, by supplying it with dulce de leche on top! (We're from Venezuela and I can certainly agree with you, that cake is claimed by nearly half of the western hemisphere) We're a family of sweetened condensed milk-aholics as you can see!

mtgall at 5:38PM on 03/16/11

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