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…)
