great chart via good magazine that displays which of the USA’s largest food producers & corporations are behind your favorite organic foods. always good to know where your dollars go. i didn’t know coca cola owned odwalla. or that pepsi owned naked juice.
hey - foodies! if you love food (and drinks, yes, can’t forget drinks), or try to keep up with what good restaraunts and good food & foodie events are taking place in san francisco & bay area, follow foodie gossip, or all of the above, then you will really like tablehopper. you will. the culinary swashbuckler that is marcia gagliardi writes fantastic food reviews and food related articles. i highly recommend it. thanks marcia!
ha! anthony bourdain’s post on michael ruhlmans’ blog titled guest blogging: a bourdain throwdown about the food network and food network chefs is just too damn accurate, biting, and to-the-point hilarious. so true that you really should check it out. giantmonster recommends putting down your drink prior to reading, otherwise you will spit it out from laughing. the post begins with ‘nobody asked me, but …’ and then doesn’t let up. great chef and a great writer too. thank you, mr. bourdain, for phrasing things so well! on a different tone is an equally well written and poignant article by anthony bourdain titled watching beirut die, written when bourdain’s ‘no reservations‘ film crew was trapped in beirut during israel’s bombing of lebanon. check that out too if you like. food network post found via metafilter.
this clip sent in from brit, a highly rad stop motion animation short film from milkfat dot com called baked goods. clever, nicely animated, and semi-educational. funny, i always added the butter in with the water (no double boiler/separate pan type action). i also use the same kitchen aid mixer too. baking is fun. enjoy!
my friend rafael introduced me to the best damn coffee place in SF a few weeks back. it’s more of a coffee stand than a place. regardless, there’s always a line out front. and now probably more so that orange magazine wrote an article on it. blue bottle coffee is pretty damn fantastic. very tasty coffee & espresso drinks. granted, a $3.00 latte should come with a back-rub, serious make-out session, or hand job to condone such a fee (for realsies people - it doesn’t cost that much at all to make a coffee drink, yo). but sans hand jobs & back-rubs, blue bottle’s latte is the best tasting latte i’ve had in a long long time. yes, dare i say it’s better than ritual. both places go for the fancy lil’ foam/espresso arty finish, which i think adds another 25¢ to the drink. check it out when you can.
late at night, toffee is your friend. yes. you know this. it is always there for you. even when everyone else has left, toffee is there. so good. toffee. sometimes it’s there, not as fully formed toffee. but as separate toffee ingredients of butter and sugar and sometimes chocolate. they see you and they are waiting to be united as the magical toffee. go to them … now. unite those special ingredients now with this easy english toffee recipe from cooking for engineers. yay! make the weekend special. isn’t it about time you spent some time … with toffee?
