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Make your own Circus Animal cookies
Filed under: Alt-SlashFood, Culinary Kids, On the Blogs, Comfort Food, Retro cookery  Circus Animal cookies were one of my favorite types of cookie when I was in school. Not only were they sweetly addictive, but they were covered in frosting, decorated with sprinkles and shaped like animals. When combined, those traits make up a combination that is irresistible to kids. The fact that the "animals" were next-to-impossible to identify was not an issue, since my primary objective when faced with the cookies was to find the white ones with the most sprinkles and eat them first.
Adults rarely seem to buy these cookies for themselves, which is...
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End hunger in a video game
Filed under: Alt-SlashFood, Raves & Reviews, Trends, New Products  Not all video games are horrible. Just try out the simulation called Food
Force, in which players take on six missions
to help feed millions of hungry people in a place called Sheylan in the Indian Ocean. The game, freely downloadable off of Yahoo, was created by, of all groups, the United Nations. The UN has a
sub-organization called the World Food Programme (WFP) whose mission is "halving
the proportion of hungry people in the world." The game is mostly educational, representing to players what the
day to day tasks of the WFP are: from determining a what a balanced diet for...
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The Slider Reinvented
Filed under: Food Porn , Beef, Alt-SlashFood, Recipes  Of all of Nature's gifts, nothing is dearer to the hearts of drunks and gluttons than the slider. The slider! So named because of the ease with which it enters, and exits, the gastrointestinal system. Glorified in film and in literature. The end of a thousand loveless nights, and the start of a million melancholy days. I love the slider, and can't get enough of the little fellows.
The hamburger, you see, is a paradoxical creature. It is most itself when small, so that the basic proportion of surface to interior is 1:1, ideally with a browned coarse surface that...
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Deep end dining goes even deeper - Eddie eats fugu
Filed under: Lunch, Dinner, West Coast, Restaurants, Fish, Alt-SlashFood  It's kind of cute actually, this little fugu. A tiny, embryonic-looking fish with huge eyes and an enormous forehead, barely a tail, and miniscule gimpy-finding-nemo fins, it looks quite innocuous. But oh, mortality! for the predator who pisses little fugu off. The fugu explodes into an enormous ball, armored with deadly spikes, and looks like those military mines planted at the bottom of the sea. The amount of fugu poison that can fit onto a pinhead is enough to kill a man, and all the poison in a single blowfish could kill 30 men. Scary. Well,...
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Gmail's Spam/recipe folder
Filed under: Lunch, Breakfast, Dinner, Hors D'oeuvres, Snacks, Alt-SlashFood, Pork, New Products  For email, I use Gmail. One of the greatest things about Gmail is that it is pretty good about sequestering all spam email into a separate folder.
It would be lovely if the spam emails were automatically deleted instead of filed away, but that's a rant for another blog. So for now, I must click into the spam folder, click "all" and "delete forever." At the rate I get spam email, I have to do this about 5 times a day before it gets scary in there. I just saw that Gmail has added...
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Communing With Kroc
Filed under: Restaurants, Business, Beef, Alt-SlashFood, Raves & Reviews, The History of...  It's rare that I'm stymied when I call upon my meaty muse, but it has happened two weeks running. No cause for alarm there, I'm sure. But first I was unable to come up with anything good to do about turkey, despite knowing a guy who was cooking one in a specially-made Caja China box. And this past week, after days and days of lying around my Castle of Carnivorous Consumption, making different kinds of Siberian dumplings, I couldn't even get together to produce an emotional essay about...
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The war on FLU: ginger, garlic & elder B.
Filed under: Science, Alt-SlashFood  Call me an armchair general, but I really am enjoying this year's
flu. Maybe it has something to do with missing three straight days of work
right after Thanksgiving. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones who got to be healthy
through the four day weekend of Thanksgiving, then miraculously catch the flu the following Monday morning, and get the flu only where it's bad enough you have to take cold medicine but not so bad you can't enjoy your own suffering. Of course
there's been flu food posted within the hallowed halls of slashfood
already this season, but I thought I'd present a wrap up of
the best folk remedies as A) overheard...
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Food on Flickr: squared circle
Filed under: Food Porn , Alt-SlashFood, Trends, On the Blogs  Last year, Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake told Engadget that her favorite Flickr group was the squared circle group, which contains thousands of images of round things in the square frame of a photograph. Many of these things, naturally, are food (just ask Saveur, king of the round image).
A recent discussion thread shows dozens of gorgeous "squircled" food images. A few of my favorites: pie; exotic fruit; chile peppers; sausages; dosa; caramel apple cupcake; apple; pain aux raisins; artichokes; and more sausages, with eggs. Join the...
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Keeping Up With the Cranberries
Filed under: Science, Alt-SlashFood, Fruit, Leftovers  Now that Thanksgiving is over, the question is, did you get
to eat cranberries? And weren't they great, and they're good for you so don't
you think this is a good time to keep the trend going, and keep eating them on
a regular basis? Words cannot describe how good they are for you -- acidic
enough to cut a mile-wide path through your clogged urinary tract. Girls prone
to urinary tract infection take cranberry extract supplements all the time, and
so do savvy boys with bad prostates. Recent studies show cranberry could fight
tooth decay, lower cholesterol, even heal your twisted, broken heart. No berry
has more anti-oxidants, except maybe...
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A Bad Bird
Filed under: Dinner, Poultry, Alt-SlashFood, How To, Roasting Thanksgiving is synonymous with turkey,  of course -- a depressing fact no amount of boiling oil, salt water, or heritage breeding can disguise. Turkey is bad. Even as the self-appointed "majarajah of meat," I find it impossible to work up any enthusiasm for this bland bird -- and I make a living from feigning fascination, especially during the holiday article-assigning season. Continue reading A Bad Bird Permalink |
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