March 2010
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Push to Eat Local Food Is Hampered by Shortage →
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I don't knead you
This morning I tried one of the most controversial recipes in the world of artisan baking: The No Knead bread.
This recipe has polarized bread makers since Jim Lahey of Co. Pizza made the recipe famous in 2006 through a feature in the New York Times.
This bread caused a furor among white thumbs and some even went as far as hitting each other with bread sticks and flattening each other’s noses...
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Visiting Los Angeles
I’ll be in LA in the 2nd week of April and I am both excited and worried about my coming trip.
Excited because I can check out their farmers market and perhaps try traditional immigrant cuisine in their side of town. Likewise, I can see my friends and hang out with them for almost a week.
Worried because I can already feel the pull of one of the best burgers I’ve had in my past fast food life:...
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Say cheese
How could something so rotten be so good? Smells like ass but tastes like butter.
Well, needless to say, I am a cheese monster. I have written it here and have said it aloud a million times. I love cheese.
But good cheese is expensive. Unbelievably good cheese is unreachable. This realization led me to tap on my desire to once again take matters into my own hands: I will make cheese.
As you...
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The Daily Dough
If Wonder Bread and other ready-made bread companies spend billions of dollars in advertising, then they should allot several millions to advertise exclusively to me because the gap between their products and my wallet is expanding like the universe.
Yes, they totally lost my business now and only some real ‘dough’ can make me go back to their forever-fresh-chemically–enriched bread products.
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Another food recall. This time, due to salmonella. →
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Meet my pal, El Rocker
It was a snowy Thursday when I decided to brave the slippery roads and visit a music store to shop for an electric guitar. The electric that I had in mind was a cheap one–a no name knockoff that I intended to modify with better add-ons later.
My budget was $100.
But before I drove off, I called my friend, a local music legend named El Rocker, for any suggestions that he thought would be best...
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There goes my salad days →