food: October 2007 Archives

Pancakes in a can

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Strange New Products brings us the cutting edge in culinary laziness/stupidity: pancakes in a can.

Free tacos for base steal

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Taco Bell is at it again - they're promising a free taco to everyone in the US if a base gets stolen during the World Series. Via kottke.

A story of a chocolatier on a rampage:

The man described as the "Willy Wonka" of Britain's chocolatiers has resigned after engaging in an "act of truffle-squishing" in a rival store.

A statement from Hotel Chocolat said: "This was an extraordinary act of truffle-squishing. We can only guess at what provoked it."

I very much enjoy stories like these - the ones that make me laugh from their utter ridiculousness. Via boingboing.

Photo series: people and their breakfast

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A photo series by Jon Huck that displays a photograph of a person with their breakfast. You are what you eat. Via kottke.org.

Mario Batali on how to sauce pasta

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Serious eats had the wonderful Mario Batali come and share his thoughts on how to perfectly apply sauce to a bowl of pasta:

A sauce should just cling to the noodle, very much like salad dressing to a perfectly dressed salad. That is to say there's nothing at the bottom...

Americans overdress their pasta 99.8% of the time.