Linksplodge 10/12/09

October 12, 2009, 5:15 pm 2 Comments

devilled-eggs-holder

Above, vintage deviled egg plate. $10 on Etsy. Update: it's sold!
Worth reading: The interviews with chefs at the NYWFF Eater Lounge.
A piece in the Times UK on German food writer Jörg Zipprick's criticism of Ferran Adria, saying that "menus should carry health warnings informing diners of the additives in the dishes." [via Eater]
Related: Oliver Thring eats at El Bulli: "People tie themselves in irrelevant knots debating whether El Bulli counts as art or craft. It's both, of course: and science, and more. Its unworldliness provides encouragement and distance necessary to ask fundamental questions about the act of eating."
Schrambling, on Gourmet.
From the French Culinary Institute's Cooking Issues blog: Everything you ever wanted to know about Transglutaminase, aka Meat Glue.

Observer Food Monthly feature in which their "favourite foodie men and their mothers talk about their childhood eating habits," including Gordon Ramsay and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
USA Today takes Marcella Hazan Eats to Olive Garden to gauge her opinion. [via VVFITR]
PETA rejoices! Adam Yauch, aka MCA, goes vegan to fight cancer.
Jezebel: Pepsi Releases iPhone App To Help Men "Score" With Women And Brag About It On Twitter.
7-Eleven testing plastic stay-fresh wrap on its bananas.
Restaurant Girl proclamation: Tater tots on the rise.

nicole

Thanks for consistently showing Etsy some love.

October 13, 2009, 12:15 pm Reply
vagabondblogger

Tom Colicchio was on Hoda and Kathy Lee this AM cooking cod pieces mended together with meat glue. He tried to describe it succinctly, but it didn't translate. Nice to see mention of an article about it.

October 13, 2009, 5:11 pm Reply