R.I.P. Cupcakes
We're sad to announce the demise of one of our favorie food fads - the cupcake. Three separate news sources have published obituaries. The first is from no less an unimpeachable source than The Wall Street Journal. In…
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Julia Child comes to life in a new, different type of app
Since many of you enjoy our occasional notices of interesting food-related apps, we wanted to alert you to one that Random House, the long time publisher for Julia Child, has issued - it's a unique app that is far more…
Some of the best food moments in movies
Awhile ago we published a blog on The best food movies and movie scenes, which proved to be quite popular. We had a lot of nice responses from our readers about their favorite scenes, including the escargot moment in…
Do you need a spice therapist?
The New York Times recently published their special magazine food and drink issue and one article struck us as especially interesting. In The Transformational Power of the Right Spice they interview a spice purveyor…
It's time to harvest the spaghetti crop
Recently, a member of a very erudite cooking bulletin board raised the fact that it is now the spaghetti harvest season in Switzerland. The Swiss have, to a large extent, convinced the rest of the world that spaghetti…
Trying to understand umami
We recently just made our first batch of dashi - the Japanese soup stock made with kombu (dried kelp) - one of the purest sources of umami . So it was fortuitous that one of our readers, Ken, brought our attention to…
Busting common food myths
Angela Keller, writing for the Daily Meal, took on some common food myths and busted them all. Here's a short list of the kitchen myths she refuted - you can check out all the myths and the full details in Busting the…
Weird British foods we must try
How could we resist an article called "18 Weird and Wonderful British Foods You Need to Try"? Given our global membership we're all for creating a community of food, so pointing out this article provides a public…
Do you really need Kosher salt?
Kenji Alt over at The Food Lab (nominated as a James Beard finalist - congrats!) recently addressed the question: Do I Need to Use Kosher Salt? After acknowledging that there is no difference chemically among table,…
Two tirades against food television
Every time that the Food Channel eliminates cooking shows in favor of a contest or non-cooking related channel, there are rumbles from the media. But two recent rants caught our attention as particularly well-written,…
Refrigerating regular or sweet potatoes - yes or no?
Potatoes are an appropriate topic for St. Patrick's Day, so we thought we'd highlight a simple question that Food Republic recently asked: Do you need to refrigerate potatoes? And here's the simple answer: No. Potatoes…
The Bloomberg - the "sugariest drink in the world"
Since Friday is a good day to clean up loose ends, we thought we'd finally note the death - or at least the coma - of Mayor Bloomberg's attempts to ban the sale of mega-sodas in New York City. And the most creative coda…