One of the most read New Yorker articles this month? Take a look behind the scenes with the folks who go undercover to determine the Michelin Star ratings.
For other food-related items from well-respected magazines, take a look at this interesting McSweeney’s take on Paula Deen.
When perusing all the various Best of 2009 lists, I’m glad to see that Best Cookbooks is its own entity. (This local 94-year-olddid not get any listings despite the impressive productivity).
Finally, if you enjoy anything on this blog, chances are you’ve looked at food reviews online at some point in your life. Share that experience with a needy grad student in this online restaurant review survey (being done for my Applied Research in Content Management Systems class).
In other food-related press, local Syracuse outlet The NewsHouse recently had a very interesting story about a deaf-Sudanese refugee who found a home working at Funk N’ Waffles.
The New York Times reminds us to double-check the pre-canned yams with their “Stuff in Foods” video.
Finally, this week I had the opportunity to interact with two of my Top Five Fav Pop Culture People…Ira Glass (I asked him about food too) and ANTHONY BOURDAIN!
During his Q&A session, I managed to ask him about his favorite breakfast meal (not available in this country) because my question about his development as a writer was asked while I waited in the microphone line. The first half of the night was all Bourdain riffing on his topics of choice including:
-His favorite TV food personalities (Giada, Ramsay, Paula Deen, Flay, Batali, Alton Brown… he shares the opinion of this blog on a certainsweatband wearing hostthough ).
-His distaste for the Food Network
- His tips for Americans traveling abroad (Eat where no other Americans eat, respect the local customs 100 percent)
…well, a list I wrote inspired by this blog was on Pop Candy. Click on to read my Top 5 Pop Culture Diners (and they’re not the five you’d expect… it’s a Meg Ryan-free list).
Yep – it’s really called the Banana Curve. However, the other exterior sign revealed a locale much more conservative than its name would lead you to believe. Nevertheless, when you’re hungry and in the middle of nowhere to grab a new driver’s license photo, the local diner is your oasis. Thankfully food has no politics and the Banana Curve’s taste is worth lobbying for. Keep reading →