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  • A Decadent Snack

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    So with my salad ingredients (see below) I also bought a sourdough baguette at the farmer’s market. At around 5 or so I got hungry again and whipped up this easy to assemble snack: a slice of sourdough, with nutella and raspberries. I could’ve toasted the bread, but it was fine without toasting. I enjoyed…

  • Wow

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    I came home with an e-mail from JustGiving that said the following: Dear Adam, You asked us to let you know when someone makes a donation via your American Red Cross National Disaster Relief Fund fundraising page. We are pleased to confirm that Brian Schipper has made a donation of USD1,000.00 to American Red Cross…

  • Gourmet Survivor II: $953 raised so far, Farewell Kathy, and the New Challenge

    Gourmet Survivor II: $953 raised so far, Farewell Kathy, and the New Challenge

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    $953 Boy, what a wonderful first round we had: all the entries were fantastic, and even more fantastic: we raised $953 for Katrina victims! Go us! (If you don’t believe me, check out our donation page.) Battle Po’boy Results I had a big dilemma just now tallying up the votes in Battle Po’boy. It was…

  • Gourmet Survivor II, Round One: Battle Po’boy

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    The results are in for round one of our Survivor competition and let me tell you, they are way impressive! You really won’t believe what beautiful jobs all the players did and how generous our coaches were with their time and storage space! But now it’s on you, readers. Only you can determine who will…

  • I Went To Fashion Week

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    This is not food-related, but John Kessler–the former food critic at the Atlanta Journal Constitution (and the one who profiled my site in June 2004)–invited me to join him at New York’s Fashion Week on Wednesday because he’s doing a fashion week feature in the AJC and wanted me to be his professional celebrity spotter.…

  • I Made A Poster

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    I discovered QOOP through Kottke and it lets you print and make posters of your Flickr photos. Since I started using Flickr at the beginning of the summer, I basically had a record of everything I ate this summer. And I made a QOOP poster reflecting that for (appx) $9.99. It’s hanging next to my…

  • Gourmet Survivor II: Coaches and the First Challenge (‘Po Boy!)

    Gourmet Survivor II: Coaches and the First Challenge (‘Po Boy!)

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    Players: here are your coaches. You are each, for various reasons based on various whims, paired with a coach who will: (a) coach you through each round, suggesting recipes, techniques, strategies, etc; and (b) host your entry when it is due. It is your responsibility to get in touch with them through their sites [unless…

  • And the winners are…

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    After much work tallying up the points and clicking through thousands (ok, maybe hundreds) of pictures, here are the winners of the Gourmet Survivor II Scavenger Hunt. Tomorrow these winners will be paired with food blogging coaches and hosts who will work with them on Round One of our competition—assignment to be announced tomorrow. Many…

  • Winners TBA Tomorrow!

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    Thanks to all the participants of the Gourmet Survivor II Scavenger Hunt. We’ve raised $263 dollars so far and are well poised to raise lots more once the cooking begins. All together we had six entrants who braved the absurdity of my scavenger hunt list. For those that missed their entries, check out the links…

  • Two More Submissions

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    For those keeping track, we’ve had two more submissions in the Gourmet scavenger hunt. The first comes from William who turned his in later Wednesday night and since I didn’t say “Eastern Standard Time” in my original instructions, he gets the 20 points. Here’s his Flickr page and here are some funny pictures: I like…