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For those of you with iTunes you can now download the official Amateur Gourmet iMix. (Clicking should load up the mix in your iTunes player).For those of you without iTunes, allow me to share the tracklist. I have assembled 15 songs, all of which I love, some of which concern food. Here they are:1. Domingo…

Bran muffins serve one purpose and one purpose only. So does bran cereal, for that matter. People don’t eat bran because it tastes good, people eat it because it makes them poop.In case you haven’t been told, pooping is the natural consequence of eating. What goes in must come out, so they say. I am…

Ah, you thought I was done didn’t you? You thought there’d be no more about Entitlement and Food? You thought wrong!The last few posts concerned economics, sociology and politics. This post concerns snobbery.Entitlement works in many ways. One such way is: “I am rich and you are poor and I deserve to eat better food…

Check out Jeremy’s post over at Frost Street in which he tackles the oft-celebrated, oft-feared Durian. Here’s the picture he took pre-disembowelment, follow the link for the rest!

The biscuits at the Silver Skillet are the best in Atlanta. They are flaky and perfect and light as a feather. They are, in fact, among my favorite things to eat.While I was there today, then, I decided to ask for the recipe. I thought i would use my site’s cache to earn credibility. I…

I have always hated breakfast.As a child I thought nothing was worse than mushy pancakes, that French toast was the most abominable creation known to man, and that eggs were watery gooey clumps of yellow matter my mom threw on my plate as punishment. The one time I attempted to help her cook them, I…

What an excellent submission from site reader Lacy! Seriously, I was so enamored with her writing that I bought a one-way ticket to New Mexico, bar exam be damned. Yo quiero La Choza.In the world of food, there are regions.  The American South, for example, is a region of food.  France is a region of…

Negligence and duty of care are not matters that should concern the average reader of a food blog. After all, we’re here to talk about food right? At least we pretend to. Although, I’ll concede, bunny sock puppets making cupcakes adds little to the discourse.But I digress.Today, during our BarBri Torts lecture, the professor—a very…

Site reader Kimberly wants America to eat her linguini. Let’s do it for our country!Now, I know the burnt caramel ice cream that I suggested didn’t go over so well. (In all fairness, that lump would have melted in the cooking process.) However, last night during dinner, I said to my mate, “Sam, everyone in…

Frank Bruni, the new New York Times restaurant critic, is doing a wonderful job so far in his new role. He immediately won my favor when he reviewed, for his first review two weeks ago, my favorite restaurant in the world Babbo. I shared his sentiment when he wrote: “Among the restaurants that make my…