Bourdain quotes, a new reviewer, the best local coffee shops and upcoming holiday posts

Food Links | Compiled by Nathan Mattise

• In case you missed this week’s No Reservations holiday special, Eater served up the best 15 Bourdain quotes from it.

• One of the new Post-Standard restaurant reviewers recently penned her first piece on Namu. My favorite part: abiding by the reviewer ethos of anonymity.

• With the semester winding down over at SU and holidays from work just days away, the NewsHouse offers up the best places for some caffeine to help you press through the work.  (It’s missing some essentials – People’s Place – so you can always check out Pure Coffee to cover your bases).

• Finally, in honor of the year being almost up and the holidays upon us, a quick few announcements:

1) Diner Week 2010 is coming up in late December!

2)… so is the Diners Without Frosted Tips year-end list!

3) The best part of the holidays online, the Last Christmas blog, found a version that combines the loveable Wham! tune with..McDonalds… and bacon.

Food stories, ballpark food, “localvores” and juiceboxes’ milestone.

Food Links | Compiled by Nathan Mattise

It’s been a big few weeks of CNY food news (naturally during my professional training time of year). Another famous chef announced a NY State Fair demonstration, the Syracuse Diners project I worked on has gotten some future press from the local paper and the NY Wine and Culinary Center announced the third year of a cool local competition (that I may be invited to participate as voting media in).

To celebrate, some more food links:

• Poynter’s morning story ideas newsletter provides the following gems: How to open wine without a corkscrew and why you need to wash your reusable grocery bags.

• As much as I love me some cheap Saranac and a hotdog at a Syracuse Chiefs game, this ESPN report on ballpark food is definitely a bit disheartening.

• We’ve linked to @mmccormickcny‘s blog before, but her recent endeavour to eat as a “localvore” has been of the highest quality.

• Finally, Bourdain recently announced his contest to submit a chapter to his upcoming book. If that’s not quite your style, now juiceboxes are having their own epic battle (to celebrate their 30th anniversary).

4th Grilling, Wes Johnson, Man V. Food (again) and the e-mail diet.

Food Links | Compiled by Nathan Mattise

• In time for the 4th, 10 grilling tips from Wegmans.

• SU’s own Wes Johnson not only had the best pants at the NBA Draft (just Google it), he’s also the most diner friendly pro due to his love of pancakes.

• If you missed it, Man V. Food is coming to Syracuse… again (this time for a State Fair demo).

• Finally, I’ve recently heard of folks e-mailing their daily diet to others in order to lose weight through group psychology. Here’s a restaurant critic laying out his own diet for such public display.