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• So ... Where Was I?

  I'll get into more detail later, but for now suffice it say that I've been doing some travelling while I was away from Epi, and that I ate many, many things. And this was one of them. What was it, and where did I eat it? Two hints: That's coconut broth, Read More... Posted Thursday, September 02, 2010 6:51 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Travel, Travels, Michael Y. Park

• Contemporary Comestibles Quiz: A Fond Farewell (for Now)

  There's a chance this may be my last post on Epi-Log. A surfeit of other projects lately has meant I haven't been able to dedicate the amount of time I like to for each piece here, and the folks at Epicurious have been gracious enough to let me take some Read More... Posted Thursday, December 31, 2009 2:00 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Breakfast, Candy, Recipes, Cocktails, Wine, Travel, Beer, Spirits, Chocolate, Trends, Meat, Snacks, Fruit, tv, drinking, cooking, Farming, Coffee, chefs, quiz, Pizza, movies, epicurious, History, Reflections, Wacky, Weblogs, Obsessions, games, film, Travels, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Budgets, music, Top 10 Lists, Law and Politics, Music and Sound, Q&A, Taste Tests, Current Affairs

• Food News Round-Up: Cheezborger, Cheezborger!

  Happy 75th, Billy Goat Tavern! Arguably the most famous bar/restaurant in Chicago, the Billy Goat Tavern turns 75. Take that, Cubs! (I admit it: I'm biased toward the White Sox.) Is McDonald's New Ad Wicked ... or Wicked? Does an Illinois-based megachain Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:01 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, Cocktails, Science, Wine, Beer, Spirits, holidays, Trends, television, tv, drinking, Coffee, menus, gadgets, History, Wacky, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Law and Politics, Science & Technology, Current Affairs

• How to Make the Best Pizza You Ever Had ... at Home

  If you ever get word that the heads of Pizza Hut, Domino's and all the other pizza chains of the country have been seen hanging out in shady backrooms together, let Mark Bello know it's time to make himself scarce. He's probably the biggest threat to Read More... Posted Monday, December 28, 2009 1:57 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Recipes, Baking, Pizza, Michael Y. Park

• Contemporary Comestibles Quiz: Christmas Eats

  1. Goose was the traditional principle dish for Christmas in Europe for a long time, but from the 16th century, wealthier European families began indulging in a new holiday meal. What was it? a. ham b. turkey c. beef d. veal 2. Why is it tradition for Read More... Posted Thursday, December 24, 2009 2:00 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Dessert, holidays, cakes, quiz, shopping, History, Wacky, seasonal, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Budgets, Law and Politics

• Is the Kitchen Your Kingdom?

  Just pretend this is a picture of a gingerbread castle and not a haunted house. So it's the holiday season, and most of us are going to follow a script for the next couple of days that goes something like this: 1. Fly/drive/take a train to a relative's Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 22, 2009 2:00 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: holidays, kids, Parties, kitchen, Michael Y. Park, Family Fare

• Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

  The "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" Web video series is part of the USDA's program to try to help consumers get in better touch with where the meals on their dinner tables actually come from. On Wednesday, White House chef Sam Kass made the latest Read More... Posted Monday, December 21, 2009 1:58 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Farming, chefs, seasonal, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Law and Politics, Current Affairs

• Food News Round-Up: Having Your Pie and Eating It, Too

  Eating Humble Pie: A cough-syrup-in-the-gravy scandal? Furor over a switch from soft Wigan pies to a crustier kind from another British town? Just another year in the annual world meat-pie-eating contest in England. (The winner ate an entire pie in 35.86 Read More... Posted Thursday, December 17, 2009 1:59 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, Beer, Seafood, television, tv, kids, gifts, drinking, green, gadgets, Pizza, pie, food safety, products, Wacky, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Law and Politics, Science & Technology, Current Affairs

• Fun or Tasteless? The Titanic Ice-Cube Tray

  Funky Rhode Island-based kitchen-gadget manufacturer Fred and Friends is finding that one of its designs is, ahem, running aground with some people. The problem is that its Gin & Titonic ice-cube tray ($6.99) is a spoof of the 1912 Titanic disaster. You Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:57 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Cocktails, movies, History, Wacky, kitchen tools, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Housewares, Current Affairs

• Holiday Supermarket Etiquette: What's Your Tale of Holiday Horror?

  In Germany, holiday grocery shopping turned into a police incident when a 74-year-old man, a 34-year-old woman, vying for the same cart, sparked a battle with salamis as truncheons and wedges of hard cheese as daggers. The incident left the woman's 53-year-old Read More... Posted Monday, December 14, 2009 1:58 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: holidays, shopping, Wacky, seasonal, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park

• Food-News Round-Up: Hands Off Their Chocolate Milk!

  Fighting for Brown Moo Juice: The dairy industry has formed the Raise Your Hand for Chocolate Milk campaign as a bulwark against the growing movement to strike chocolate milk off school menus. Those who want chocolate milk banned from school say it's Read More... Posted Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:57 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, Candy, holidays, Trends, cookies, Meat, kids, healthy, menus, food safety, Wacky, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Family Fare, Budgets, Law and Politics, VideoGame, Current Affairs

• Ideas for Winning a Holiday Cocktail Contest

  Let me get this out of the way right now: I'm not a big holidays fan. Sure, sure, I was a Christmastime maniac when I was a kid. I mean, who wasn't? You were essentially bribed to like the holiday when you were under 13. This year, though, I've decided Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 08, 2009 2:03 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Cocktails, holidays, Michael Y. Park

• The Most Shocking Tiger Woods Revelation of All

  I won't go into all the salacious stuff that's coming out about the guy who used to be among the most private people in professional sports (I think we can agree we're all a little Tigered out by now), but among the breathtaking number of brainwash-necessitating Read More... Posted Monday, December 07, 2009 2:36 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, sports, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Current Affairs

• My Misadventures With Soup Dumplings: What Am I Doing Wrong?

  Lately, I've been trying to recreate a favorite dish from New York's Chinatown, Joe's Shanghai's soup dumplings. In case you're unlucky enough never to have had one, they're meat dumplings filled with a hot, tasty broth that you suck out from the top Read More... Posted Saturday, December 05, 2009 5:00 AM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: asian, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Chinese

• Food News Round-Up: Triangles vs. Rectangles, East vs. West

  Gourmet Geometry: Do you cut your sandwiches into triangles or rectangles? NPR makes a surprisingly detailed argument for triangles. Who Has Better Chefs: the East Coast or the West? The debate continues (rather nastily) in the New York Times. Worst Drive-Thru Read More... Posted Tuesday, December 01, 2009 2:00 PM from Epicurious.com: Editor's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Restaurants, television, tv, chefs, Pizza, Wacky, Giving, charity, Obsessions, News & Gossip, Michael Y. Park, Law and Politics, Current Affairs