February 13, 2009
Yes peCAN!
In January, Ben & Jerry's presented a new flavor in honor of the new U.S. president: "Yes PeCan! An Inspirational Blend of Amber Waves of Buttery Ice Cream With Roasted Non-Partisan Pecans."
Here are some flavors that the public suggested to "honor" George W. Bush:
Grape Depression
The Housing Crunch
Abu Grape
Cluster Fudge
Nut'n Accomplished
Good Riddance You Lousy Motherfucker... Swirl
Iraqi Road
Chock 'n Awe
WireTapioca
Impeach Cobbler
Guantanmallow
imPeachmint
Heck of a Job, Brownie!
Neocon Politan
RockyRoad to Fascism
Cookie D'oh!
Nougalar Proliferation
Death by Chocolate... and Torture
Freedom Vanilla Ice Cream
Chocolate Chip On My Shoulder
Credit Crunch
Mission Pecanplished
Country Pumpkin
Chunky Monkey in Chief
WMDelicious
Chocolate Chimp
Bloody Sundae
Caramel Preemptive Stripe
I broke the law and am responsible for the deaths of thousands . . .
with nuts
[cake tip to Amanda]
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August 27, 2008
Food Graffiti
We love graffiti artists with priorities. We spotted this buttered toast graffiti in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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October 25, 2007
The Food Obsessed Comedy Central
We're big Sarah Silverman fans -- but last night our respect for the hilarious comedian grew even greater when she went on the her favorite cooking show, "Cookie Party."
Play the Cookie Party game.
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February 15, 2007
The Bourdain bitch slap
As a guest blogger for Ruhlman.com, Anthony Bourdain unabashedly roasts the cheery Food Network cooks with a cockiness that we love. There may be nothing more refreshing than when a chef abandons restraint for honesty when discussing other chefs.
Bourdain on the easiest target of all: Rachel Ray:
Wallowing in your own crapulence on your Cheeto-littered couch you watch her and think, "Hell...I could do that. I ain't gonna...but I could--if I wanted! Now where's my damn jug a Diet Pepsi?" Where the saintly Julia Child sought to raise expectations, to enlighten us, make us better--teach us--and in fact, did, Rachael uses her strange and terrible powers to narcotize her public with her hypnotic mantra of Yummo and Evoo and Sammys. "You're doing just fine. You don't even have to chop an onion--you can buy it already chopped. Aspire to nothing...Just sit there. Have another Triscuit...Sleep...sleep..."
We couldn't have said it better ourselves.
[thanks for the link, Kevin]
Bourdain's new concept for the Iron Chef battles is also hilarious. Are there any Food Network producers out there who could make these Iron Chef match ups happen?
* Mario Batali (with one arm tied behind his back--and drunk) vs. Regina Schrambling
* Michael Ruhlman, swacked on Ripple, vs. John Mariani-- in a Charcuterie Challenge
* Grant Achatz vs. That Guy In Australia Who Ripped off his recipes as his own
* Marco Pierre White vs. Gordon Ramsay
* Charlie Trotter vs. Martin Picard (Chicken Livers vs. Foie Gras)
* Chris Cosentino, Fergus Henderson, Martin Picard vs. Alain Passard, Roxanne Klein and Charlie Trotter (Cooked vs. Raw Challenge)
* Martha Stewart vs. Rachael Ray (bare knuckle cage match)
* Ducasse vs. Robuchon
* “Mikey” from Top Chef vs. Sandra Lee
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January 29, 2007
Turntable Recipes
baked noodle ring
After a long day at work are you too tired to read a recipe from a cookbook? Well, maybe you should put the needle on the record and start listening to those recipes. With the album, Katie's Kitchen you can have recipes for Peas Thompson and Sunday Duck described to you so you don't even have to open a book.
Otis Fodder of WFMU's Beware of the Blog, found Katie's Kitchen in a used record shop in Seattle's Pike Place Market and after reading that there was a recipe for a Crab Meat Nut Sandwich that he could serve with Lime-V8s it was easy to plop down the five bucks.
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February 24, 2006
Strawberry Shortcake on the late night L train
Late tonight as the L train was jerking along in the tunnel between 1st Avenue in Manhattan and Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn we spotted a person amidst the crowded train who represents both a childhood hero and the dish we were craving as we inched along underground.
But before she was spotted we learned that she had lived near the L-train's path for over 30 years and until recently the train was guaranteed to always have only seven passengers. She said this loudly, as though to indict all other passengers on the crowded car. It wasn't until 20 minutes into a ride that should have taken five minutes that we finally spotted the body, er, costume attached to the voice. This is when we gained a renewed respect for this long-time resident. This elderly woman’s Strawberry Shortcake costume took tonight’s L-train fashion cake, overriding all the train-riding hipsters and fashionista aboard.
And this was no 99 cent shop costume made of a plastic pinafore. It was obvious that our "Strawberry" had constructed the outfit on her own. Her bright red curly locks poked out from behind the pink fleece kerchief she had fashioned. And she was wrapped from neck to waist in a pink and red polk-a-dot scarf. Her pink tights sagged slightly in her white Keds and in her hand she clutch a bag with a trinket-sized buddy, Apple Dumpling, dangling from the strap. We sniffed the air, hoping to catch a whiff of that delicious artificial strawberry scent but only smelled the McDonalds meal that a different passenger had packed for the marathon train ride.
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January 09, 2006
Cooking with the stars (circa early '90s)
Best Cookbook of 2005
We received a lot of great cookbooks as Christmas gifts this year. But none come close to topping our favorite: Cooking with The Young and the Restless: Recipes from Television's Favorite Soap Opera. Not only does the book come complete with favorite recipes of Young & Restless characters, but it structures the book in a logical arch that plays on the theme of life being a soap opera: it begins with the romantic meals, followed by dishes to be served at weddings and ends with meals for one. Along the way stroll down memory lane with photos, descriptions of favorite dishes by the characters themselves.
Some of the romantic dinners for two suggest obvious dishes like "Zinfandel-Braised Red & Green Cabbages" and "Cold Curried Chicken." Sadly there were no pictures of the dishes (only glam shots of the stars).
Zinfandel-Braised Red & Green Cabbages When the cruciferous vegetables rein supreme, the winter months can be filled with this regal presentation of the affordable cabbage.
Nikki and Victor
The book concludes on a somber note with "Recipes for Singles."
Everyone is single at some point, and sometimes it seems like the right person will never appear. Sometimes romance is elusive even when it seems to be all around. The singles of Genoa City know what it's like to eat alone, and some are tired of the easy fast-food route. They look instead for practical recipes that are easy to make and can also be prepared for more than one serving.
We feel better already. The one bit of solace that singles reading this book will find is that the recipes for singles are far superior to the "Dinner for Two," "Romantic Meals," "Weddings and Honeymoon" chapters.
Recipes for singles range from complicated recipes like "Country Ham and Oyster Poor Boy" to the one-ingredient recipe of "Baked Colorful Corn Tortilla Chips." With this simple dish all you have to do is find a store that sells chips that come in red, white and blue; buy them and eat them (although the cookbook takes almost an entire page to state this).
Favorite quotes from the recipes:
Mushroom Lasagna Florentine - "Phyllis sometimes worries that she puts in too much mozzarella for Danny, but that has never happned. Why does Phyllis worry about little things like cholesterol and not big things like paternity and fires?"
Monogram Focaccia - "This dough is particularly suited for forming the initials of a special friend."
Jess Walton's Beef Stroganoff - "Jess says, when I was a kid I used to imagine that I was a Russian princess. I'd be in bed and I'd get under the covers and imagine that I was being spirited across the tundra in a horse-drawn sleigh; it would make me feel cozy and protected. I'd fall asleep. I think that's why I like beef stroganoff."
Cheeseheads Green-and-Gold Football - "This football-shaped cheeseball might just set off a frenzy. Two of the state's star cheeses are mixed with the aid of a food processor with a secret punt of port."
**We'd like to note that despite the overly simplistic menus, this book is a great resource for high school students studying for the verbal section of the SATS. There was an unusually high proportion of big words sprinkled throughout the book. Either the writer of the cookbook is super smart or she got her hands on some serious Thesauri.
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August 26, 2005
Roast of the Food Network Chefs
Maybe it's because we are secretly jealous. We want our own cooking show on the Food Network. But being amateurs in the kitchen and failing miserably in the "make love to the studio camera" department, we know it would be a disaster. That said, we still feel entitled to critique the peppy personalities that teach us how to make food on tv. We love a good roasting of the people who roast best.
Check out the Republic of Dog's roast of the Food Network Chefs:
Bobby Flay is everything I hate about straight guys, all wadded up and compressed into one small and extremely annoying white man. He is such a fuck-tard, and I would pick a fight with him with a quickness. Also, all he does is grill. I am a native of Texas, so unless you’re like grilling yeti filet over heated moon rocks, you won’t impress me by grilling.
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August 24, 2005
A Fridge that blows hot and cool
warming/cooling refrigerator
[From We Make Money Not Art]:
A refrigerator is one of the biggest electricity consumers at home.The idea of Hot Fridge is based on an experimental use of waste heat from a refrigerator and is inspired by Gudul (Ondol), the traditional under-floor Korean heating system.
By having its structure and condenser redesigned, the fridge is able to store not only cold food but also warm food. The condenser is on top of the fridge so that you can put and keep left-over food warm until next meal. Plastic shelves in door are changed to fabric net pocket bags that help cool air circulation and allow easy storing. Hot Fridge is easy to move so you can pull it to bring warm dishes on the dinner table. If you cannot finish all your pizza at lunch, put the pizza plate up on the fridge. The afternoon bite will be warm!
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August 17, 2005
Audio to Cook to Playlist
We're going to let you in on a little secret. Good things in life can be made better if they are paired with another of bit of goodness. For instance, this weekend we saw the Aristocrats. It was pretty funny and Sarah Silverman's contribution made the movie worth the ticket price. But the overall experience was made significantly better because of our nearly bottomless suburban-sized box of Junior Mints. This box was so big, it could almost be rented as a New York Studio apartment.
But we digress. The point of this story is that good can always be made better by adding earthly pleasures like food or music. While an evening in the kitchen preparing a meal is always a wonderful way to unwind from a day of mental, physical or emotional abuse by an uncaring boss, think of how much more enjoyable that evening would be with the perfect playlist of music to cook to.
Where will you find this list? Look no further. Our friend Josh, over at Audio for Drinking put together this rocking list of Songs to Cook to. He's even included some samples of the song to get a taste of the music. Read on and let us know your favorite songs to listen to while you cook:
Someone’s In the Kitchen
01. “Cuts Like a Knife” by Bryan Adams: Lets get things started with a rock anthem from a meat and potatoes man who’s more popular than maple syrup in Canada. (Personally I like to do my cutting with a Wusthof 7” Santoku Knife.)
02. “Light My Fire” by Shirley Bassey: Shirley recorded this Doors cover in 1970 and really jazzes it up.
03. "Measuring Cups" by Andrew Bird: From one of my favorite albums this year, the aptly titled Mysterious Production of Eggs, “Measuring Cups” is equal parts quiet sarcasm, smirking melodies and tenderness.
04. “Burning For You” by Blue Oyster Cult: This track off of BOC’s 1981’s Fire of Unknown Origin sounds custom-crafted for the radio with a deliciously catchy chorus.
05. “Broken Household Appliance National Forest” by Grandaddy: Eco-disaster or an ironic juxtaposition? Maybe it’s just great music to do your baking to.
The Right Ingredients
06. “Green Onions” by Booker T & the M.G.'s: Booker T & the M.G.’s provided the most important ingredient (Memphis soul) to several recordings as the house band for Stax Records throughout the 60’s and 70! but they are best remembered for this song, one of the most famous instrumental hits ever recorded.
07. "Know Your Chicken" by Cibbo Matto: A Japanese born duo with an Italian name, Cibbo Matto define fusion. The two cooked up quite a menu on 1996’s Viva! La Women (“Apple”, “Beef Jerky”, “Birthday Cake”, “Artichoke”, et al), firmly establishing themselves as patron saints of food songs.
08. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Def Leppard: One lump or two?
09. “Recipe” by G. Love & Special Sauce: This guy really like his cold beverages but his special today is a homemade recipe for chilling and grilling.
10. “Bananas & Blow” by Ween: Dean and Gene Ween are no strangers to interesting food items (mushrooms/ pork roll, egg and cheese/ chocolate, and cheese). These two particular ingredients are a recipe for a hilarious and expertly delivered Jimmy Buffet parody complete with steel drums.
11. “Jambalaya” by Hank Williams: There are hundreds of different recipes for jambalaya, Southern cooking most versatile and defining dishes but there is only one defining figure of country music and that is Hank Sr.
Dinner for Two
12. “Another Breakfast With You” by Ladytron: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Although the sound of heartbreak in Helena’s voice could make you wonder if we might just want to sleep in.
13. "The Art of Cooking for Two" by The Lucksmiths*: Is there anything more romantic than cooking for you significant other? That is unless you are a horrible cook.
Take-out
14. “Hospital Food” by eels.
15. "Vegetarian Restaurant" by Aberfeldy: Aberfeldy conjure up a bouncy, playful indie rock ditty set within the confines of a lovely vegetarian restaurant without the lentil and hippies.
16. “Greasy Spoon” by AK MOMO: Swedish electronic! pop duo AK-Momo serve up vintage electronic sounds and a story of lost love set in one of those wonderful little eateries we enjoy so much.
17. “The Smell of Outdoor Cooking” by Arab Strap: I bet you can just picture this one: grill- check, cooler- check, kilts- check? These two Scottish lads offer up one of the more existential portrayals of a barbecue ever.
Dessert
18. “Peaches & Cream” by Beck: Traditional and old-fashioned may be one way to describe this dessert but certainly not its chef. The rush though is still the same
19. "Super Bowl Sundae" by Ozomatli: A Super Bowl Sundae contains 1 scoop each of 8 ice creams, which makes this song wholly appropriate as an anthem for this eclectic multi-culti band responsible for fusing a heady mix of music genres.
20. “I Wanna Eat Chocobars” by Shonen Knife: Shonen Knife delivers the sweets and really, who can say no? Their music is almost as sugary as the sweets they sing of.
21. “Sugar In My Bowl” by Nina Simone: “Sugar In My Bowl” is raunchy, sexy and has just the right amount of panache to get us where we want to be at the end of such a decadent night.
22. “Cherry Pie” by Warrant: Everyone loves pie; maybe not big hair, but definitely pie.
The Mixer
23. “Having a Party” by Sam Cooke: Best party song ever. The Coca-cola and popcorn are optional.
24. "All the Wine" by The National: Nothing compliments a fine meal like a big wet bottle.
25. “The Drinks We Drank Last Night” by Azure Ray: A quiet moment of reflection to end our culinary odyssey.
Doggy Bag (Bonus Track)
“Eat It” by "Weird" Al: It’s absolutely impossible to compile a list like this without including Weird Al’s ode to gastronomical over-indulgence.
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August 16, 2005
Contest to win a piece of pie...
The Family Guy - Ipecac Puking
[From Milk and Honey]:
Peter, Brian, Stewie and Chris try to resist throwing up on Ipecac to win the last of the pie in the refrigerator. Mmmmm... pie.
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August 13, 2005
Condi Rice Dream
Condoleezza Rice would never approve of an ice cream made with rice and not milk. We temporarily forgot that vegan ice cream is anti-American. For chilling right-wing ice cream flavors check out Star Spangled Ice Cream via FreeWilliamsburg.com
They are currently developing more exciting flavors:
Ara-Fat Free
Candy McCain
Cherry Falwell
Choc & Awe
Donald Rum Raisin
Dutch (Reagan) Chocolate
Iraq The Vote
Orange Alert Sherbet
RUSHmallow
School Prayerleens & Crème
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August 11, 2005
Japanese ad for cookies
Click here to watch a cute Japanese ad for cookies
Kabaya hosts a collection of wacky ads for Japanese cakes, sweets and cookies. [From Crazy Japan
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July 27, 2005
Zen and the art of sipping sugar water
Between Fez on That '70s Show who has a weakness for chocolate to Steven Segal with his penchant for day-glo sugar water, there are a lot of cakeheads coming out of the Hollywood's woodwork recently. Elliebear from Milkandcookies.com pointed us to the fact that Steven Segal not only manages to indulge his sweet tooth in every film he makes, but he also promotes one of the most vial drinks known to man. Watch here:
">Click here to view Quicktime clip
Is there anything more repulsive than the ingredients found in Mountain Dew?
Contains: Carbonated water, high fructose corn syrup and/or sugar, concentrated orange juice and other natural flavors, citric acid, sodium benzoate (preserves freshness), caffeine, sodium citrate, gum arabic, erythorbic acid (preserves freshness), calcium disodium EDTA (to protect flavor) and BROMINATED VEGETABLE OIL, yellow 5.
Yuck. Vegetable oil in soda? We strongly recommend that you avoid the recommendations of Steven Segal and instead take your beverage sipping cues from the other Product Placer.
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July 17, 2005
Proof that NYC children are more horrible than golden ticket winners in Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory
Chocolate River Before (1971)
Chocolate River After (2005)
So we really never had any intention of seeing the newest Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, although from production stills it appears that the 2005 chocolate river is creamier and richer than the earlier version. But we're content to live with the 1971 chocolate waterfalls and streams. This posting from Gothamist confirmed why we will wait until video. [From Gothamist]:
We saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (the Oompas Loompas rule), and to our surprise, more disturbing than Johnny Depp's characterization of Willy Wonka was the behavior of some of our fellow moviegoers. During the afternoon showing full of adults and children alike, a young girl start to bawl during the movie. Not fun for the rest of us, but it happens. Except usually parents will usher a child out of the theater if the crying is excessive. But these parents let her cry for at least 10 minutes, before other moviegoers of the aggro kind started to scream, "GET HER OUT!" repeatedly. So the bawling girl's father takes her down to the middle of the theater...but doesn't take her out, letting her cry there longer. That's when an angry patron trying to get his $10.50 worth stood up and got in the father's face.
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July 06, 2005
Ummm. Love that beefy smell
We want to buy a car, just so we can hang this beefy goodness in it. Chuck Palhniuk has the right idea for promoting his new book Haunted. [From This Justin]:
At a recent book signing, Chuck Palahniuk gave out BBQ scented air fresheners, steak shaped shower mats, and flung artificial severed limbs into the audience knocking over drinks and beaming inattentive girls on the head in the process. We need more literary events like that.
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June 28, 2005
Best New TV Show about Eating
Andy Milonakis eating Fruity Pebbles
We've finally found a television personality who comes close to having our obsession with food. The Andy Milonakis show is our new favorite. [from Real Boy's Cozy Cabin weblog]
Today was a grand ol' day, I ate 10 twix bars actually 20 because there are 2 in each pack. I was hungry but I only did it because my friend Jeffrey dared me to. He said he would give me a super hard to find Anakin skywalker action figure if I did it and when I was done he told me he changed his mind. So now I'm really full and I don't have an Anakin skywalker figure.
We just hope the show doesn't get canceled because he eats the camera crew.
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Product Placement in the NY Times Magazine
It was refreshing to see a small business like Fizzy Lizzy getting a little product placement in the New York Times Magazine last Sunday. In Matt Lee and Ted Lee's article, they profile Elizabeth Marilin and her juicy seltzer company. The story of a woman's struggle to compete in a world where Pepsi-Cola, Coca-Cola and Cadbury-Schweppes run the show is always riveting. And we've long been a fan of the seltzer/juice combination ourselves. Like the folks at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, we'd also make Fizzy Lizzy our house drink, if we could afford it. We're just curious about why it took two people to report and write this story. We would have gladly sent someone to sip free sparkly sans partner, friend or lover. We would have even reported the missing detail that four bottles of the stuff will cost you over $4. Since we're thrifty folks, we'll just keep mixing our own bubbly. But best of luck to you, Lizzy.
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June 19, 2005
Eat the Ad
Disney's really getting cutting edge. Between purchasing Hayao Miyazaki's Howl's Moving Castle and now this: [From Nephilim]
So you've seen Disney marketing on just about every type of merchandise, and you think you've seen it all. Not even. I was looking at a package of Mission brand tortillas (which are pretty good, btw), and I saw that they have an offer for - get this - edible tortilla decals with disney characters and landmarks on them. I have to see these in action. Unfortunately, you can't order them online - it's a snail-mail-only offer involving writing your name and address on a 3x5 card. (Do people still do that?)Let's show Disney that people still do.
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Christians aren't eating cake...the end must really be near
Christians have stopped eating Kraft Food cake and Procter and Gamble potato chips. No, they are not on a collective diet - which God hath decreed.
They are on a boycott. It's hard to believe they aren't eating, but they think by fasting they can stop our friends the gays from being gay - or at least stop representation of gay characters on television.
Expect to see the Christian lemmings - followers of Rev. Donald Wildmon's American Family Association (AFA)-slimming down.
In just the past year and a half, AFA protests and boycotts -- or even the simple threat of boycotts -- have been enough to make a host of American companies pull their ads from TV shows the Christian right considers pro-gay or salacious. "Desperate Housewives" has lost ads from Safeway, Tyson Foods, Liberty Mutual, Kohl's, Alberto Culver, Leapfrog and Lowe's after the AFA's One Million Dads campaign targeted the show's sponsors. "Life as We Know It" got the same AFA treatment -- and lost ads from McCormick, Lenscrafters, Radio Shack, Papa John's International, Chattem and Sharpie. [Read full article]
Tell the snack providers what you think of this move:
Kraft Foods
Procter & Gamble
Tyson Foods
Kraft Foods recipe for the golfing cake (pictured above)
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