MetaFilter posts tagged with cooking

avec eric

contessa — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 07:57:08 -0800

Le Bernardin chef Eric Ripert's got a blog where he serves up demos of recipes he makes in his toaster oven.

Julia Child, Superspy

mynameisluka — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:55:12 -0800

Julia Child apparently liked to mix cooking and covert operations. What did the beloved chef have in common with Arthur Schlesinger and baseball's Moe Berg? A career with the OSS, that's what. The CIA precursor's papers have recently been released, revealing Child's involvement in the agency. Unfortunately, Julia's secret service could not be mentioned in her autobiography, My Life in France, which is currently being adapted into a movie starring Meryl Streep.

Food, Glorious Food

netbros — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:36:33 -0800

Open Source Food is a multi-lingual community of enthusiastic cooks browsing, creating, and sharing recipes. The Itsa Pita Pizza is quick and easy, Yuzu Pesto Tagliolini is almost too pretty to eat, but !!!warning!!!, do not even look at the mango crepe a la mode. 2000 recipes with photos.

C is for Cookie that's good enough for me

AceRock — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:57:59 -0800

David Leite, on his quest for the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie, learned that letting the cookie dough rest for 36 hours before baking makes for one hell of a cookie. Chefs Aki Kamozawa and H. Alexander Talbot didn't want to wait that long.

Try the African Cookbook

Kattullus — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:00:41 -0800

The African Cookbook is a compilation of recipes from 9 countries in Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Morocco, Mozambique, Senegal, Sudan and Tanzania & Zanzibar. As well as a handful of recipes each section has short chapters on how food is served in each country. For more recipes and information go to Try African Food.

101 is the tastiest number

dersins — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:42:48 -0800

101 20-Minute Dishes for Inspired Picnics (NY Times link irritatingly spread across multiple pages) from Mark Bittman, who also gave us 101 20-minute appetizers and 101 10-minute meals.

Hello friends and lovers -- Food Party

cog_nate — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:21:32 -0800

"Food Party is a (would-be) TV cooking show with a spicy saigon kitchen-witch as your hostess, a cast of unruly puppets as culinary advisors, and a cavalcade of hip-hop/sports world celebrities as surprise dinner guests. Shot on location in a technicolor cardboard kitchen, each episode will instruct you on how to prepare wild gourmet multi-course meals with ingredients you probably have on hand in your kitchen already, such as pretzel rods, cheese puffs, eggs, sugar, secret ingredients, and pizza. After all, you never know who might show up for dinner." All three episode and bonus Xmas special are in the initial link. There are a few other videos on Thu Tran's (eye-searingly color clashing) Youtube channel. She also runs the Food Party blog, where she and a few others write about various comestibles; some scrumptious, some not so much. And here's her non-food-related art site. (Also: corn monster!)

Cooking with Masao

GavinR — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:51:55 -0800

Sharing means caring, right? Well, Masao would like to share with you his techniques for cooking Torta di ceci which is a type of Italian cake. If beverages are your thing, perhaps you'd like a nice glass of Sambuca exotic fruit punch, some peach juice, or something he calls his "Super Energy Raisin Juice". More of a hot dog or sausage person? Well then, our buddy Masao has got that covered for you!

In all fairness, these video clips might ruin your appetite so be aware of that in advance.

Infinite Oregano

Artw — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:13:44 -0800

If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books, the results would not be pretty.

CookingFilter: Ten Home Cooking Mistakes

robocop is bleeding — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:17:56 -0800

Keith Law's Ten Common Home Cooking Mistakes. Law, better known for his sports writing, lists ten pitfalls the home chef can fall into and how to avoid them.