Posted in ask the foodie, cook's tools, food knowledge, fun, gifts for the foodie, holidays, movies, must-buys, resources, silliness, wine, tagged christmas gifts, foodie, gifts on December 9, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Foodie Christmas gifts, continued…
Kitchen Tools
This is a list of some cool tools – some essential, some whimsical, some probably ridiculous. But they will no doubt make your foodie smile!
If money is no object: your foodie NEEDS a KitchenAid Stand Mixer. No self-respecting foodie should go without this essential tool. It can be used for everything: [...]
Posted in ask the foodie, food knowledge, tagged live oysters, oysters, preparing oysters on December 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A Wendalicious reader asks:
What would you prepare if a friend sent a bushel of Chesapeake Bay Oysters (live, unshucked) to your home as a gift? The approximately 100 oysters will be packed so as to keep for 2 weeks and come with two oyster knives.
Your friend, Joanne
What nice friends you have! A very thoughtful gift.
I [...]
Posted in food knowledge, friends, restaurants, reviews, tagged "casola dining room", "chef tanner", "puerto rican food", casola, criolla, sancocho, SCCC, schenectady on October 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had lunch yesterday with my friends Gail and Nell, at Schenectady County Community College’s Casola Dining Room. The Casola is the college’s restaurant “laboratory,” where the culinary students get real life experience cooking and serving in a restaurant. SCCC is just one of five colleges in New York State that is accredited by the [...]
Posted in food knowledge, fruit, greenmarket, recipes, resources, tips on October 13, 2009 | 9 Comments »
This past Sunday, I spent a very chilly 40 minutes at the Schenectady Greenmarket, filling up my (reusable) bag with the last of the summer fruits and vegetables. I had yesterday off work, and I planned to spend the entire day (if possible) in the kitchen. My idea of a vacation.
Here’s the rundown:
Seckel pears. Beautiful, [...]
Posted in diet, food knowledge, food news, health, tagged appetite, palmitic acid, rats, saturated fat, weight loss on September 14, 2009 | 4 Comments »
And, now I know it’s kinda not my fault. Kinda.
Findings from a new study suggest that some fats cause our brains to turn off the “I’m full” signal that tells us when to stop eating.
Here’s what they think happens: we eat the fat, it goes to our brains. Once they get there, the fat [...]
Posted in Food science, food knowledge, food news, health, weirdness, tagged cinnamon, mold, whole wheat on September 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Some cool food science news I found:
Cinnamon has long been known for its antimicrobial properties (used as a corporal preservative in mummification rituals), but now science has finally decided to delve deeper into the knowledge that ancient Egyptians discovered more than 5000 years ago: cinnamon used as an anti-molding agent in food packaging. [...]
Posted in food knowledge on August 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What’s Inside a Slim Jim?
Those things are nasty, and now I know why.
Posted in diet, food knowledge, food news, greenmarket, michael pollan, politics, tagged 100-mile diet, farmer's market, locavore, michael pollan, pollan on August 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just found a very interesting interview about sustainable food on NPR’s Science Friday. Author James McWilliams has just written a book called Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong and How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly. In the book, McWilliams claims that eating locally is not the “best” way to be a responsible conservator [...]
Posted in food knowledge, food news on August 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished reading a fascinating and scary article on Time Magazine’s website, called “Getting Real About the High Price of Cheap Food“.
It basically reinforces my commitment to purchasing locally-grown, organic-if-I-can-afford it food. The article also turned my stomach, reminding me of the horrors of CAFOs (concentrated-animal feeding operations), where a vast majority of the [...]
Posted in food knowledge, food news on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More good news on the “chocolate as a health food” front: From the Hindustan Times
My favorite dark chocolate is Green & Black’s Organic. The dark chocolate with hazelnuts & currants is outstanding!
In related chocolate news, a Swiss chocolate manufacturer has invented chocolate that won’t melt. It looks weird, if you ask me.
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