CookShelfNPR at The Salt recently asked one of the food world's most crucial question: Do Cookies Really Taste Better Dipped in Tea? This is the quandary no less an expert than Heston Blumenthal "recently set out to discover on…
Kerry Acker at Epicurious wrote a column yesterday - Food Words are Funny! which certainly sent us into the weekend with a smile: "I woke up this morning and laughed out loud. Why? Because, for some inexplicable reason,…
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,…
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,…
The Wall Street Journal has an interesting video that discusses the challenges facing "supertasters." A supertaster not only tastes things more intensely, they have stronger feelings about what foods they like and they…
A funny thing is going on at Marketing Department, c/o Cookbook Publisher, Industry St., Anytown USA. I was just perusing the titles of cookbooks published in the last 30 days, and it seemed to me (I stress the…
The James Beard Foundation just announced its cookbook finalists for 2013. (For other awards, see our blog Cookbook award season is here!.) So who made the list? You can view the entire list here, but here are some of…
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…
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…
Food Online Holidays & Celebrations
Two recent articles struck us as working together in a somewhat ironic fashion. FoodBuzz has 24 Foods That Shouldn't Celebrate St. Patrick's Day while The Guardian reports on How we taste different colours. The former…
In the U.S., the final show of Downton Abbey was shown a few weeks ago. And it seems that an entire continent is going through withdrawal (we know those of you in Great Britain experienced this a few months ago). So…
A few months ago, we wrote a blog on how long food can last. In Don't throw out that food we noted that expiry dates don't need to be religiously followed - rather it's your nose that should be. Now one of the best…
