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  • Some eat like a pig…

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    …others eat from a pig: That’s me at Daisy May’s, celebrating the launch of Serious Eats (I stole the picture from the Serious Eats photo pool.) What’s it like putting on rubber gloves and digging into a pig carcass for your grub? It’s pretty fun. And the meat is really juicy. My favorite part was…

  • Quick Nibbles

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    Three quick nibbles. – Save the date! I’m speaking at my first food panel ever, reading a chapter from my book on Sunday 1/14 at 5 PM at Good World, located at 3 Orchard Street, between Canal and Division. I’ll be sharing the stage with Andrea Strong and Patrick Martins. Can’t wait to see you…

  • Three Cheers For The Bread Bakers

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    I am thrilled to report that FIVE people–yes FIVE–took up my challenge to bake bread this weekend and sent in pictures of their mega-successful loaves. Inspired by my “Make Bread” post, the first bread photo rolled in from Benjamin (of Tales of the Racoon Fink) who says he used to have a bread machine but…

  • Squash The Sprouts

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    Here’s a fun flash game for those who hate Brussel sprouts. (via Metafilter) Enjoy the weekend!

  • Me At Work

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    My friend James Felder of Snapshot Artifact shot this picture of me at work on his way over to our apartment the other night. This proves that even at the social hour I am dedicated to pleasing my readers. Or I’m looking at porn.

  • Imitation Is The Highest Form Of Flattery

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    Joe, a reader living in Korea, pays homage to my truffle post with his attempt to make kimchi. Thanks Joe for the flattery and to anyone else who may also want to do a comic book post, the software I used is called Comic Life and it’s available here. Click the picture to see his…

  • Nibbles 10.0 (including an inside look at The Taste of New York)

    Nibbles 10.0 (including an inside look at The Taste of New York)

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    I do Nibbles so often these days that I think I should start numbering them. But since I don’t know how many I’ve done, I will arbitrarily assign this a number. And that number is 10. This is Nibbles 10.0. Welcome. And now for Nibbles. 1. Coffee Shop Tip Jar I have a problem and…

  • Food Story Game 1: The Muffin Man

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    And now for an experiment. You ever play that game where someone writes a sentence and someone adds to it and you pass it around until you have a group-written story? That’s what we will attempt here. Except the story will relate to food because this is, after all, a food blog. So this is…

  • Nibbles

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    – Before this weekend I had no idea who Guy Kawasaki was. Then thousands and thousands of hits starting pouring in from his site. He linked to my truffle post and called it “one of the cleverest blog postings I’ve ever seen.” Ends up he is, according to his Wikipedia entry “one of the original…

  • Meg Wins

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    I humbly accept my defeat at the hands of Meg in our Torchon Tournament. Our judge (and co-author of the book that featured the recipe) Michael Ruhlman says that while I produced “a very nice torchon,” Meg’s “appears to be exquisite.” The only thing that gives me comfort is that we both maintained our dignity…