Photo: Monika Bartyzel.
These crunchy Halloween cookies have run their way back and forth across the Web, but we've come up with twists and style updates that are sure to please. Hit the jump and visit the gallery for inspiration.
Halloween Treats - Witch Fingers
These crunchy Halloween cookies have run their way back and forth across the Web, but we've come up with twists and style updates that are sure to please. Hit the jump and visit the gallery for inspiration.
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'Twilight' Restaurant Coming Soon to Forks, Wash.
Blood on the menu at 'Twilight' eatery? Photo: spike55151/flickr
Annette and Tim Root plan to open the "Twilight" restaurant next year, the Peninsula Daily News reports. The family restaurant, tentatively named Volterra after the Italian city where all the powerful vampires live in Stephenie Meyer's series, will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner. No word on whether blood will be on the menu.
What do you think? Dumb idea or good marketing strategy?
[Via Peninsula Daily News]
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New York Chocolate Show 2009
Photo: Sara Bonisteel
Slashfood got a golden ticket to the expo of sweet temptations, pastry chefs, chocolatiers and chocolate fashions. Click on the gallery for our coverage.
The 12th annual Chocolate Show will be in New York from Oct 30 to Nov. 1. For more information on the chocolate show and ticket sales, visit www.chocolateshow.com.
Our photos after the jump.
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November Food Festivals
Jacques Torres chocolates at Chocolate Show New York. Photo: Sara Bonisteel.
Chocolate Show New York, New York, Oct. 30-Nov. 1: A brief event straddling two months, these three decadent days include book signings, cooking demos and tastings, from chocolate experts such as Jacques Torres' -- he's pairing Puerto Rican rum and chocolate -- as well as party ideas.
Chocolate Festival of Texas and Texas Wines, Houston, Tex., Nov. 6-7: Not to be out-gunned by the Yanks, the Lone Star State is holding its own celebration for chocoholics, and this one includes oenophiles, who get a souvenir wine glass.
Port Barre Cracklin Festival, Port Barre, La., Nov. 12-15: You read right -- fat back is on offer! The perfect way to pad up for winter hibernation. There will be a fair pageant, rides, live entertainment and the obligatory cook-off.
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How to Make a Meat Head for Halloween (or Any Occasion)
My very own Meat Head, circa Halloween 1999. Photo: Kat Kinsman
First, select and wash a plastic skull. If it seems especially non-food-safe, mummify it in plastic wrap. Set it aside and prepare a batch of red-colored Jell-O, using half the amount of water required by the recipe. Pour this into a shallow pan to a depth of 1/4 inch, chill and let it congeal to a rubbery state.
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Teens Ticketed for Rapping Their McDonald's Drive-Thru Order
Rapping customers put McDonald's in a twist. Photo: constant500, Flickr.
Apparently rap has a bad rep at McDonald's drive-thru windows.
In yet another bizarre fast-food fable-turned-reality, four Utah teens received disorderly conduct citations following their ordering manner at a McDonald's drive-thru in American Fork, a small town south of Salt Lake City.
The teens apparently mimicked the popular YouTube jingle, which features rhymes to the likes of "Don't be frontin', son; no seeds on the bun!" They initially vocalized their order at a musical pace, then repeated it again slowly.
Culprit Spenser Dauwalder, 18, said the employees warned them that they were holding up the line, and they needed to order clearly or depart. Although he claims no one else was lined up behind him and his three 17-year-old friends, after the manager came out, the teens simply left -- but the store's manager took down their license information and contacted the police.
The police caught up with the teenagers at a high school parking lot and issued the citations -- which, according to Dauwalder's mother, are being contested.
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Curry Wurst
Curry wurst. Photo: Jennifer Iserloh.
My first encounter with curry wurst was in Berlin -- soft tasty sausage and spicy curry ketchup sauce that's also slightly sweet. No one that I've spoken to seems to know the origin of this fast-food delight, which is still made with very high-quality products in Germany. My challenge was to make it with American ingredients and update it so we could enjoy curry wurst as a healthy meal that can be served for dinner with a side of steamed broccoli.
Get my updated curry wurst recipe after the jump...
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Bloody Bites, Bacon Banter and Barrel-Aged Beer - The Chicago Tribune in 60 Seconds
The bacon buzz is still in full effect. Photo: Another Pint Please, Flickr.
- A brief background on bloodsuckers, plus "a bloody fete Dracula would thirst for" -- creative fanger foods, pun intended.
- When left home alone with the task of feeding trick-or-treaters, one columnist came to discover the marvelous match of red wine and chocolate.
- Bacon banter has finally leveled out a bit, but isn't going anywhere anytime soon. However, a recent local event preceding April's Baconfest Chicago wowed porcine appreciators, with dishes like the pumpkin-bacon-waffle with pomegranate-glazed pork belly.
- More than "junk food with a European pedigree," Nutella is a "vaguely wholesome" snack with an interesting background -- and can be made at home from scratch.
- The Festival of Wood- and Barrel-Aged Beer takes place November 7, and pays tribute to a worthy beer trend on the rise.
- A gallery of ten "superfoods" we should be consuming more of, from avocados and beets to chia seeds and dandelion greens.
- Recipes: Comforting Chicken Pot Pie with Drop Biscuits ("the gustatory equivalent of curling up with your favorite blanket"); the luscious Vanilla Ice Cream with Bourbon Walnuts and Caramel; Slow-Cooked Pulled Pork and Spicy Slaw "warms up a Halloween party;" Sheila Lukins' Banana Cake.
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Foods of the Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead altar. Photo: rainy city, Flickr.
Sugary treats, bread and tamales -- the dead have it so good! The Day of the Dead, or Día de los Muertos, is actually two days that combine Aztec traditions with Christianity's All Saints and All Souls Days on Nov. 1 and 2. It is by no means a somber holiday. In fact the Day of the Dead is a joyous time during which the dead re-join the living and are honored by their families.Ancestors are memorialized with visits to cemeteries and homemade altars adorned with ofrendas (offerings). These include items belonging to the dead, candles, flowers, a bowl of water, incense and food, of which the dead are believed to consume the essence prior to the living's meal.
The food most closely associated with the Day of the Dead is pan de muerto (bread of the dead). It varies regionally, and is baked in many shapes, including skulls, human figures, crosses and teardrops, then sprinkled with colored sugar.
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Lobster Risotto - Feast Your Eyes
Lobster risotto. Photo: REC(ession)IPES.
Because the price of lobster is so low right now -- almost half of what it was more than a year ago -- the bloggers over at REC(cession)IPES were able to add a little luxury to this simple, creamy risotto, made with arborio rice, olive oil, butter, onions, shallots and white wine. Plus, the lobster adds a much-needed burst of color to what can often be a very monochromatic dish.
Come to think of it, should you want to try this at home, there may actually be a little trick to achieving these picturesque results. As REC(cession)IPES points out, it's only live lobster that's so cheap right now. So unless you can bring yourself to butcher your own crustacean (think Julie Powell in "Julie & Julia"), you may have to settle for just feasting only your eyes on this lovely lobster risotto.
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Table for One - Simple Saltimbocca
Photo: Sarah LeTrent.
The time-honored Italian dish, saltimbocca, traditionally calls for veal cutlets, but the classic is easier and more practical for singletons to make with commonplace chicken breasts.
Saltimbocca, roughly translated, means to "jump into your mouth" -- and with thin slices of chicken wrapped in savory prosciutto and autumn sage, the translation seems fitting. Paired with roasted tomatoes on the vine, this 10-minute, one-pot meal yearns for a table under the Tuscan sun. In a concrete jungle, fresh sunflowers will have to suffice.
The beauty of this variation is that everything is cooked in the oven, at one temperature, in one pan. After all, when it's just one person doing the cooking, that same person has to do the cleaning too.
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'This Is Why You're Fat' Eat and Tweet Challenge
Taking on the Bistro Burger. Photo: Jennifer Lawinski
They were all on the menu for the This Is Why You're Fat "Eat and Tweet" challenge to celebrate the launch of the popular blog's new book of the same name (tag line: where dreams become heart attacks).
This Is Why You're Fat tweeted the locations of six Manhattan food trucks and the first person to send in pics of all six fattening treats won a party for 25 friends from the food truck of their choice and a copy of the "This Is Why You're Fat" book by blog founders Jessica Amason and Richard Blakeley.
See what folks ate after the jump.
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Colonel Sanders' Hometown Makes Peace with KFC Icon
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"There are a lot of people here who knew him from way back," sighs Suzie Razmus, newly appointed chair of the Corbin (Ky.) Tourism Commission. "How can I say this? He wasn't exactly ..."
Universally beloved?
"Yes, exactly," Razmus says, with the obvious relief of a publicity pro saved from uttering something more damning. "You hear stories about women and his colorful language that didn't sit well with a small conservative town. There are still people here that say he owes their great-aunt money, or he fired their grandfather."
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What's on Tap, Louisville - Nachbar
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Kentucky might be better known for its whiskey distilleries than its beer prowess, but like most cities with more than a million people in its metropolitan area, Louisville has seen growth in its specialty and craft-beer market over the past few years due to the average American's increased awareness of the variety of beer available.
Louisville's beer scene is "getting better," says James Donald Gunnoe, co-owner of one of the reasons that scene has gotten better: the small beer outpost known as The Nachbar. "There are about five microbreweries in town and I think there's room for more."
About two and a half years ago, Gunnoe and his wife, Heather Burks, opened Nachbar with the intention of creating a "place we'd want to go to ourselves." Working from faith in their own tastes and desires, they focused on stocking the beers they drank and loved, attempting to offer the beer at prices they knew people could afford. Gunnoe puts it best when he states, "We cater to ourselves, and from there we're just really fortunate that people appreciate what we like."
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Innovative Nosh at Kosher Fest 2009
Photo: braintoniq.com.
by Chris O'Connell
There was an air of excitement, a feeling of pride and a hunger for innovation at the first day of Kosher Fest 2009, held Tuesday at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, N.J. The event showcased not only the biggest and best kosher products from around the world, but also the newest kosher products on the market.
There was an air of excitement, a feeling of pride and a hunger for innovation at the first day of Kosher Fest 2009, held Tuesday at the Meadowlands Exposition Center in Secaucus, N.J. The event showcased not only the biggest and best kosher products from around the world, but also the newest kosher products on the market.
Aside from the typical kosher fare of smoked meats and breads, there were kosher wines, liquors and something called Organic Batter Blaster -- which, to us, conjured thoughts of a culinary video game. Alas, it's but a pressurized batter -- packaged in what looks like a whipped-cream can -- for waffles and pancakes that is both organic and kosher.
We also glimpsed an enormous shopping cart filled with kosher food and yes, kosher energy-type drinks. One such beverage, Brain Toniq, is billed as a healthy, kosher alternative to Red Bull and won Best New Beverage in the competition phase of Kosher Fest, held two weeks ago.
The world's "first non-caffeinated think-drink specifically used to improve cognitive function and increase brain power" (or so promises Brain Toniq Director of Sales Mark Loebach) is just one of many examples of the innovation and expansion of kosher food products into the mainstream prominently displayed at Kosher Fest.
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