Food Blogs

Cupcake backlash

2008-09-06T22:06:28Z

Filed under: Dessert , Trends , Newspapers , America , Comfort Food , Food News I must have read half a dozen articles in the past year which contained some sneery line about the women on Sex and the City bus tours of NYC standing outside Magnolia Bakery Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Step One for Salad: Bake Corn Bread

2008-09-06T21:42:49Z

Having grown up in a litter of seven, I think the perfect family size is two adults and a cat, but that's a problem when it comes to corn bread. It's hard to justify baking a whole pan when most of it will just go to waste. (My consort eats it grudgingly Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Cocktail Hour: Jamboozle

2008-09-06T20:25:41Z

Filed under: Cocktail Hour After a week spent wandering the halls of Tales of the Cocktail in July 2008, sipping many finely stirred and shaken libations; I said to myself, "These special cocktails need to be shared with the world." So I bring you Cocktail Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Learn how to be a food writer, blogger, podcaster and more

2008-09-06T18:44:58Z

Filed under: On the Blogs If you've ever wanted to learn how to write about food and turn that knowledge into a career, then Institute of Culinary Education (ICE) has introduced just the thing for you. They've created the Center for Food Media , which Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Plagued with fruit flies? Re-Nest shows how to end the invasion

2008-09-06T17:03:55Z

Filed under: How To All summer long, I've been buying up bags of tomatoes, quarts of peaches and at least two melons a week. I can't get enough of the sweet flavors and amazing freshness of the produce from my local farms and markets. I have, however, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Cocktail Hour: The Wet Spot

2008-09-06T15:22:42Z

Airplane Food

2008-09-06T15:13:57Z

My family and I are flying to the UK this weekend, so in addition to trying to arrange our trip and get a bunch of work done before we go, I'm planning our in-flight menus. I've been a plane picnicker for years, even before most airlines stopped serving Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Off to Portugal!

2008-09-06T14:54:37Z

A few years ago I wrote WinePassport:Portugal . It was a great project, and I learned a lot about Portuguese wines, but there was no budget for a trip to Portugal. Ever since then I've been very eager to visit. I was in Portugal once, 20 years ago and Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Feast Your Eyes: Jackie Kennedy cookie

2008-09-06T13:42:11Z

Filed under: Feast Your Eyes Zoe Lukas, the artist/baker behind Philadelphia's Whipped Bakeshop (still without a brick and mortar location) is at it again, this time creating a cookie bearing Andy Warhol's rendering of America's favorite First Lady, Jackie Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Bacon maple donuts: Sugar, shame, and an orgy of deliciousness

2008-09-06T12:00:56Z

Filed under: Snacks , West Coast , Restaurants , Pork , America , Comfort Food , Meat , Fast Food , Local Eating , Bread I like to think that I generally have good taste. I try to avoid wearing stripes with plaids, am careful to pair robust red wines Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

An ice cream cone that will light up the room

2008-09-06T10:19:42Z

Filed under: Stores & Shopping There's something iconic and appealing about the shape of a soft serve ice cream cone. I spent last weekend in Chestertown, MD and after a fun dinner out with friends, we gravitated towards the local Rita's. I ordered Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Slashfood Ate (8): The Friday family-pak

2008-09-06T08:38:31Z

Filed under: Slashfood Ate I'm sitting at my desk at work, waiting for the final minutes of Friday to tick away, popping bright orange cherry tomatoes like they're cherries (they're nearly as sweet) and rounding up some of my favorite food related tidbits Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Saturday Snapshot #2

2008-09-06T07:52:41Z

Hanging on to summer A very happy bee in the lavender at Sissinghurst gardens in Kent. This is part of a series of non-food photos that will be published every Saturday on Cooksister. Click here for last week's photo. Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Midnight Molded Food - Jellied ham

2008-09-06T05:02:31Z

Filed under: Recipes , Pork , Retro cookery From 60 Ways to Serve Ham (1930), Armour and Company I'm interrupting the semi-regularly scheduled Midnight Sausage series to share molded food images and recipes from my personal collection of early-to-mid Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)

Spinach, Caramelized Onion and Bacon Pizza...

2008-09-06T02:39:24Z

I have yet another recipe to share for our weekly Friday Night Pizza (well, for now anyway)! I think a riot may ensue if I don't keep this up... someone has gotten quite used to it! Thankfully, there are endless ways to prepare pizza and this Spinach, Read More... Share this post: email It! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!...(read more)