Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest

by Lisa Schweitzer, Posted Oct 16th 2009 @ 5:00PM

Homemade candy corn. Photo: NoshWithMe, Flickr.

A few of the best stories spied elsewhere on the Web this week:

Why buy bags of Brach's when you can make your own gorgeous Halloween candy?

A chain of Spanish-American restaurants in Brooklyn and Queens offers seafood-loaded and tequila-spiked "Viagra" soup.

A recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience is the first to show that eating and drinking act as painkillers by way of distraction.

The new "Hell's Kitchen" Nintendo game requires players to chop food and drop it into pots, but surprisingly does not involve swearing and smoking.

Move over Starbucks, Wolfgang Puck is introducing bottled Culinary Iced Coffees made with organic ingredients.

In the latest Todd English news, his former fiancée, Erica Wang, turned herself in to the police today, after he filed assault charges against her.

Filed under: Food News, Ingredients
Tags: candy, EditorsPicks, frappuccino, gordon ramsay, GordonRamsay, halloween candy, HalloweenCandy, HellsKitchen, nintendo, todd english, ToddEnglish, viagrasoup, wolfgang puck, WolfgangPuck

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10-18-2009 @2:48AM jishaq said... That candy corn recipe didn't work out for me. I followed it exactly, and the result was a dense, dry "dough" that was too hard and crumbly to roll.

It sort of tasted like candy corn, though.

Thumbs down.

-J

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