Confessions of a food geek: Olive oil obsession and more. 6 June 2007 10:46 pm
Posted by Tracy in : America's Test Kitchen,cheese,cooking,eating,fangirl,food snobbery,geekery,Harold McGee,identity,news,salad,taste test , 3 commentsSo in case it wasn’t obvious from, oh, this entire blogsite, I’m a bit of a food geek. My kitchen scale is the coolest new toy maybe since Harold McGee’s On Food and Cooking, I think Cook’s Illustrated is by far the best food magazine in the entire universe not just because it has no ads but even more so because their recipes read like lab reports (here’s what we wanted, here’s what went wrong, here’s what we learned and how we eventually fixed the problem), and until recently I was pretty sure that nothing could beat the culinary nerdiness of Cook’s TV show, America’s Test Kitchen. However, until just a few hours ago I had never seen a single episode of Good Eats with Alton Brown. Wow. (more…)
Death to the kiddie menu!
Posted by Tracy in : books,cooking,eating,food snobbery,Marion Nestle,Morning Glory,news,restaurants,work , 4 commentsI’m not kidding. After careful consideration and rereading of certain choice sections of the completely fantastic What to Eat by Marion Nestle, as well as a recent New York Times article on the subject called Don’t Point That Menu at My Child, Please (thanks Mom!), I have come to the conclusion that restaurants everywhere would be performing an enormous public service by destroying their special kid food menus and adding more small dishes (appetizers, sides, and half-portions) to their offerings — and not just because most menus feature a dire lack of portion sizes other than “freaking huge,” although that last is a problem, too. (more…)
