MetaFilter posts tagged with food

Ad Hoc at Home Recipes

AceRock — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:33:01 -0800

A collection of links to recipes from Thomas Keller's latest cookbook Ad Hoc at Home, including crispy braised chicken thighs with lemon and fennel, blowtorch prime rib, leek bread pudding, brownies, and the famous buttermilk fried chicken.

What would Michelle Bachmann eat?

Lord_Pall — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:22:31 -0800

How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology Courtesy of Hunch. Previously.

Please don't lose that Bundt

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:01 -0800

I like big bundts and I cannot lie! In honor of November 15th, National Bundt Day, the Food Librarian is bringing us 30 days of Bundt cakes. (via)

Local Delicacies Throughout Asia

Burhanistan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:32:37 -0800

EatingAsia - An exploration of local delicacies throughout Asia.

That's one sad kitchen

mathowie — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:57:05 -0800

The Last Days of Gourmet Some photos of the last few days of clean-up from the inside of Gourmet Magazine's offices.

How to eat a chicken wing

srboisvert — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:19:28 -0800

How to eat a chicken wing

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons

wcfields — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:48:11 -0800

Prison food is bad but it is getting better in some places, at least nutritionally. Other places, it is just getting cheaper. Who serves this stuff? Recently, Slate took a look at the Association of Correctional Food Service Affiliates Annual Conference. But there is food beyond 'prison food bad': Nutraloaf. It is so bad it is almost unconstitutionally bad.

"It’s like the whole slow-foods thing. I still don’t know what the heck that’s about. Food’s either good or it’s bad."

peachfuzz — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:36:23 -0800

"...it’s not a title, it’s a job. It’s a position in a kitchen. It comes from an old German word that means 'boss' or 'head of the shop.' In which case I am the chef of my operation, but it’s a production company. It’s not a kitchen, even though we do have a kitchen. That’s the closest thing to chef I am. All the good chefs that I know say that they are cooks employed as chef. All the people that say, 'I’m a chef,' generally aren’t. The good ones will say, 'I’m a cook.' Once people start saying, 'I’m Chef Bob!'—yeah, whatever. I’m Captain Kangaroo. Have a nice day". The Onion AV Club interviews Alton Brown. The show's not for everyone, but the recipes sure are.

Yum.A.Lum

badego — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:19:38 -0800

Dash and Bella is a blog about cooking with your kids. Its lovely and mouth watering.

Prometheus In The Kitchen

The Whelk — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 07:48:07 -0800

"Good, big ideas about evolution are rare." Simon Ings of the Independent reviews "Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human" by Richard Wrangham. (via)

Bento! Plus, How to Get Ready for Work in Five Minutes.

milquetoast — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 09:45:17 -0800

Anna the Red's Bento Factory presents Where the Wild Things Are (plus part 2), and Just Bento points to a video on how to get up, eat breakfast and get ready for work in 5 mins! More bento. Previous bento.

The food of my people

Joe Beese — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 07:28:01 -0800

"At Jewish Delis, Times Are as Lean as Good Corned Beef" David Sax hopes you will help "Save The Deli". (previously)

Welcome to the jungle

pjenks — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:51:38 -0800

One hamburger sent a 23 year-old woman into a coma for nine weeks. When she awoke, she could no longer walk. A lengthy expose in the NYTimes follows the secretive chain of events bringing E. coli into her life. Contemporary carnivores read at your own risk... The author, a modern-day Upton Sinclair, seems to have been on the food beat as of late.

qsr drive-thru service study

aerotive — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:31:39 -0800

Craving some speedy, accurately prepared, clearly enunciated junk food with a typographically proper menu? QSR has released their yearly Best Drive Thru rankings, with reports for speed of service, order accuracy, speaker clarity, and menuboard appearance. Overall description of the survey, survey questions and demographics, and Methodology (via the consumerist and chicago trib)

No meat, no dairy, no problem

klangklangston — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:36:47 -0800

VeganMoFo 2009! Started as a riff on NaNoWriMo, Veganmofo challenges food blogs to go vegan for October. Kitteekake is hosting the index. If you've ever been curious about vegan cooking, it's a damn fine place to start. via. Feel free to highlight your favorites. I think I'm going to make a modified version of this tomorrow for lunch.

Everybody says bugs taste good even if they taste them only once

caddis — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:06:36 -0800

Insect Sushi Shoichi Uchiyama makes sushi of a different kind. Academic studies have shown insects are rich in nutrition and many are even more nutritionally balanced than meat or fish... In addition, they grow much faster and require less feed than animals and fish, and leftover vegetables are enough to farm many kinds of bugs. They grow in small spaces and don't compete with human beings over food... Recipes inside. (via Scribal Terror) Yellow Hornet Larvae Blanch the larvae in boiling water for 30 seconds, cool them off and serve with soy sauce and wasabi (Japanese horseradish). Mr Uchiyama says: "The larvae need to be fresh and the best ones are those that you have just taken from a nest, still moving. Then they are sweet and creamy." Argentine Cockroach Cut open shell, scoop out meat and fry with butter. Replace in shell to serve on top of salad. "It has no smell at all, but the texture of tender fish," says Mr Uchiyama. Hornet or Silkworm Pupae Fry at a high temperature for a very short time and serve wrapped in slices of "kamaboko" fish paste.

The BLT Kama Sutra at Kitchen Scraps

hurdy gurdy girl — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 18:33:15 -0800

You say you like bacon, sure, but do you love it? Do you love love it? The BLT Kama Sutra [mildly NSFW, possibly] is an illustrated response to the Michael Ruhlman BLT from Scratch Summertime Challenge [previously on MetaFilter]. The BLT Kama Sutra is the brainchild of Pierre Lamielle, author of Kitchen Scraps, a food blog featuring the recipes and drawings that didn't make it into his upcoming cookbook. In addition to amusingly illustrated recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks, you can check out the Mystery Blue Box Salad recipes (where Lamielle uses vegetables from whatever random selection happens to come in his organic produce delivery that week).

cooking with contraptions

madamjujujive — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:47:46 -0800

Top 10 Food-Based Rube Goldberg Machines (videos) If this type of food preparation is too elaborate for your tastes, the Super-Fast Pancake-Sorting Flexpicker Robot might be more to your style.

Food Fights and Timeline

yegga — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:09:34 -0800

Food Fights and Timeline

Slugburgers

ocherdraco — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:34:23 -0800

Slugburgers, hamburgers in which the meat has been supplemented with bread, meal, or crackers for filler, come from a triangular region that cuts across northern Alabama, northern Mississippi, and southern Tennessee and roughly corresponds with the Tennessee Valley. They're called slugburgers in Moulton, Alabama; Decatur, Alabama; and Corinth, Mississippi; doughburgers in Tupelo, Mississippi; and breadburgers in Cullman, Alabama. This regional take on the hamburger became popular during the Great Depression, when the price of meat made it necessary to use fillers to extend supply. Though the exact origin of the term is disputed, it is most commonly held that Slugburgers got their name from the coin used to pay for them: when each burger cost 5¢, you could pay for one with a nickel which was then also called a slug. Corinth, Mississippi, has held an annual Slugburger Festival since 1988. Take a photographic tour of the Slugburger Trail. I was reminded of slugburgers by The AHT Guide to Hamburger and Cheeseburger Styles. Decatur, Alabama, is my hometown, and I grew up going to school around the corner from C.F. Penn's, the local slugburger joint.

Yuk

debord — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:48:46 -0800

Traction Man is writing about the food he receives in an NHS hospital bed in England. He's got a Downfall tribute video too.

The unholy love child of pulled pork and pate.

1f2frfbf — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:44:40 -0800

Want to have a small bacon pick-me-up in the office or away from home? The food blog, Homesick Texan, presents the traditional recipe for Bacon Jam.

A tray of lard

mippy — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 01:49:08 -0800

The £10 breakfast. Why is it £10? Because there is ten of everything. Maybe it's the British version of the KFC Double Down.

KFC Double Down

mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:22:41 -0800

"God clearly did not mean for humans to eat chicken, bacon, and low-quality, gelatinous cheese at the same time." Nathan Rabin tackles KFC's Double Down combo.

Goodbye Gastronaut

Elmore — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:25:05 -0800

Keith Floyd , the original Celebrity chef and the most flamboyant of gastronauts, has passed away from a heart attack at the age of 65. Floyd was known not just for enjoying a drink while he cooked, but also for making TV real. Slow cooked beef in red wine How to cook mussels Pheasant in Mead sauce Toulouse Cassolet Beef with Oysters and Guinness Fish stew Keith Meets Keith, which aired last night, for those who have access to Channel 4's 4oD (strong language). Keith's blog also has instructions on how to roast a turkey.