Google, Starbucks to Conquer the World
Posted on January 31, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Google has already become the medieval Catholic Church equivalent for the Internet, deciding who’s been naughty and who’s been nice and who gets to go to heaven–the top of the search engine results–and in the process controlling social networking in cyberspace [...]
Read More..>>Patagonian Toothfish Is Back!
Posted on January 30, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Wal*Mart has once again broken every principle of political correctness–except that this time it has good PC-approved company in the Whole Foods Market chain.
What’s up?
Recipe for Disaster
Posted on January 29, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I revisited the [tag]Joseph Filippi Winery[/tag] the other day as I found myself in the area with some time to kill. Now, Filippi makes some good to near very good wines, but its main attraction is that it grows most of its grapes and presses its wines in Southern California itself, just east of Los [...]
Read More..>>The Ubiquitous, Adaptable, Delicious Pear
Posted on January 26, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Whenever I see a salad listed with [tag]pears[/tag] and things like roasted/candied walnuts and cheese of some sort, usually Goat or Gorgonzola, my taste buds start fluttering like I just met the woman of my dreams (which I’ve done too many times in this long life of mine).
Of course, the pears adorning the salad have [...]
Jury Out on Indonesian Food
Posted on January 25, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I found myself stuck in a place called Foothill Ranch, Calif., and drove about to find a watering hole for happy hour. I found an Indonesian-American restaurant called the [tag]Kuta Grille[/tag], which certainly was handsomely appointed inside.
The menu was almost completely American with just two Indonesian dishes, one a calamari and the other an Opah [...]
Hot Dogs Shall Set You Free
Posted on January 24, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I was sitting here drooling over the approaching Feb. 14 report date for pitchers and catchers to [tag]baseball spring training[/tag] and tasting those hot dogs as I made my travel plans. Which, of course, brought to mind the topic of Venezuelan hot dogs (clear connection, right?).
And I made a startling discovery….
Up Next: Paula Deen
Posted on January 23, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
I just remembered the name of the Barefoot Contessa–Ina Garten–but today I caught [tag]Paula Deen[/tag] and her show on Food TV.
Now, Paula is eminently relatable. She’s a down-home, Southern grande dame (which she might or might not like as an appellation), but I get the feeling that her luck has outpaced her skills.
How so?
Success (?) of ‘Barefoot Contessa’
Posted on January 22, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Now, I fully understand the success and popularity of Rachael Ray and Emeril Lagasse, and Bobby Flay and Mario Batali as well, but I’ve never quite caught on to the success of the series called “Barefoot Contessa” on Food Network.
I mean, these people live in a mansion, are seen driving around Long Island in either [...]
Success at Last: The Poached Egg
Posted on January 20, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Now, thanks to David Rosengarten and others, I can routinely churn out perfect hard-boiled eggs and corn on the cob, but try as hard as I could to follow Food Network advice on how to poach an egg, I’ve always failed. The egg turned out looking like a white squid or some other floating shape.
Today I [...]
Super Bowl Beckons–What to Serve?
Posted on January 19, 2007 - Filed Under Food News | Leave a Comment
Hey, for a [tag]Super Bowl[/tag] party, I favor hot dogs, chili, chips, salsa, beer, wine and TV commercials. Forget the game.Â
Anyway, the event will pit either Chicago or New Orleans against either Indianapolis or New England (Boston). Three of those cities provide interesting opportunities for food tie-ins: Chicago for hot dogs and pizza, certainly. New [...]
