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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest: Our Bloggers

Posted Aug 14th 2009 5:00PM by Alex Van Buren
Filed under: On the Blogs, Our Bloggers

Gazpacho. Photo: Emily Farris, Fifty Bucks a Week.

Each week, we round up the top food articles we've spied Web-wide. This week, a special edition of our own bloggers' primo pieces from elsewhere on the Web.

Pervaiz Shallwani boards a bus with a stripper pole alongside a bunch of bartenders to harvest rye in upstate New York ... for Gourmet ... really.

"Mad Men" fiend Eric Diesel reveals his recipe for perfectly "clean" martinis -- a 2-to-1 gin-to-vermouth concoction at his Urban Home blog.

Mike Pomranz on the phenomenon of a cat opening a jar of food at Comedy Central.

Bruce Watson reports at sister site DailyFinance that the United States may "run out of sugar" in the next year!

Cook and film buff Monika Bartyzel notes that Michael Moore might be done with the documentary style that made him famous, for Cinematical.

Gretchen Roberts, our savvy sommelier-in-training, offers freebie gourmet treats at her wine blog Vinobite.

CoffeeMeister Erin Meister makes peace with the five-second-rule over at her culinary blog, the Nervous Cook.

Joshua M. Bernstein visits Scores, a Manhattan strip club, to eat steak (again, really!) for the New York Press.

Emily Farris tries to toe the budget line with a basic, beautiful gazpacho at Fifty Bucks a Week.

Does Your Digital Camera Have a 'Food' Setting?

Posted Jul 22nd 2009 1:00PM by Emily Farris
Filed under: Stores & Shopping, New Products, Food News

Tomato and Olympus camera. Photo: Emily Farris.

These days, food porn seems almost to be giving the old-fashioned kind a run for its money. Everyone with a digital camera and an appetite fancies him or herself an amateur food pornographer, which is to say there's a lot of bad food photography out there alongside the good stuff.

Camera companies are catching on to the trend and trying to make a buck, with digital point and shoot models that are manufactured with food photography settings, like this Olympus which has a "cuisine" option, and this Sony, with its "gourmet food" mode. Chances are good that if you purchased a camera recently, it has some kind of food photography option and you don't even know it. If your food photographs are less than porntastic (like the tomato shot here), it might be worth your while to consult your camera's manual or look online to find out.

If you don't have a food setting, don't rush right out to buy a new camera that does.

One pro shutterbug's opinion, after the jump.

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Brioche Burger Buns for Bastille Day - Feast Your Eyes

Posted Jul 14th 2009 10:00AM by Emily Farris
Filed under: Baking, France, Holidays, Feast Your Eyes, Bread

Brioche burger buns. Photo: Smitten Kitchen.

Marie Antoinette may not have been the one to say "Let them eat cake!" -- we'll never know for sure -- but one thing is certain: whoever said it first wasn't talking about the sugary stuff, but about bread. The phrase is translated from the French qu'ils mangent de la brioche. If said brioche is baked to a perfect golden brown and topped with sesame seeds, we say, "Oui!"

Just in time for Bastille Day, here is an ideal-looking hamburger bun from across the pond. The American treat was given a French twist by Deb at the Smitten Kitchen, who consulted nearly 100 recipes in search of the ultimate bun. In the end, she went with a technique that ran in the New York Times; the buns turned out "plush and mildly sweet and slightly buttery."

Suffice it to say we're feeling fully fired up for Bastille Day. Bon appetit!

[Via Smitten Kitchen]

'Mad City Chickens' - Chicks in the City

Posted Jun 26th 2009 4:00PM by Emily Farris
Filed under: Farming, Midwest Cities, Trends, Eggs, Local Eating

On Monday night, 75 people piled into a Kansas City, Mo., church to catch a free screening of "Mad City Chickens," a documentary from Tarazod Films that chronicles the resurgence of the urban chicken.

Unfortunately, like many U.S. cities, Kansas City makes it nearly impossible to have even just a few hens in the backyard. Chickens are only considered legal residents if their coop is 100 feet from the nearest home or business; they're certainly not allowed to roam. But the more people focus on eating locally, the more chickens pop up in backyards all over the United States (and Kansas City for that matter), legal or not.

Up until a few years ago, Madison, Wis., ("Mad City") banned urban chickens, forcing more than a few rogue backyard farmers -- known then as "the Chicken Underground" -- to get the law changed ... if they wanted to keep their chickens, that is. Now Madison is a veritable backyard chicken oasis, and serves as the backdrop for "Mad City Chickens."

Read about Big Tiny the rooster and Consuela the hen after the jump.

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Bonnaroo Cuisine - This Ain't No Woodstock

Posted Jun 16th 2009 11:00AM by Emily Farris
Filed under: Trends, Festivals

Photo: A sad culinary scene at Bonnaroo

Nearly 80,000 people descended on a farm in Manchester, Tenn., last weekend for Bonnaroo, a four-day music festival headlined by 1990s jam band Phish and rock star Bruce Springsteen. Because most of the attendees camped on the 700-acre site -- and individual tickets started at a whopping $225 -- most festival goers opted to forgo food from pricey vendors and rough it.

By noon each day campsites were filled with empty PBR cans, half-empty industrial-sized jars of generic peanut butter and remnants of canned beans warmed over propane ranges. A few industrious music lovers, however, weren't going to let a lack of gas or electricity keep them from eating well.

More photos, bison chili, pork chops and Rotel after the jump.

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Charlie vs. Emeril in Casserole Contretemps?

Posted May 13th 2009 4:00PM by Emily Farris

Emily Farris is author of 'Casserole Crazy: Hot Stuff for Your Oven'

Last week on "Good Morning America," Emeril Lagasse accused show host Charlie Gibson (who was not present at the time) of stealing one of his recipes. This might not have been a big deal if the dish -- a chicken enchilada casserole -- had not become the most popular recipe on GMA's Web site. Today Gibson struck back in the blogosphere, defending his culinary prowess and questioning why the renowned Emeril would want to take credit for a recipe based on canned chili, canned tomato sauce and canned enchilada sauce topped with Doritos.

Leaving aside the well-known fact that Doritos are delicious -- especially the Cool Ranch variety, but let's not get distracted here -- as a casserole cookbook author, I'm inclined to take Gibson's side on this one.

Gibson claims he got the recipe from a friend before he ever knew Emeril. And I believe him. I grew up thinking my mom's green-bean casserole was hers. It was creamy on the inside, crunchy on the outside and all-round delicious. Of course my mother had created it! Except she hadn't. When I began to make it myself, I learned it was the Durkee onion can recipe.

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Casserole Crazy, Cookbook of the Day

Posted Sep 9th 2008 7:58PM by Marisa McClellan
Filed under: Cookbook Spotlight

I am a huge fan of casseroles. In the summer I make a zucchin gratin that would knock your socks off. In the fall and winter, I become the queen of various pasta bakes, blending elbows with sausage, spinach and tomato sauce, and gemelli with ricotta cheese and pesto. Happily, I discovered recently, that when it comes to casseroles, I have a soul sister in Emily Farris. She is the blogger behind the site Casserole Crazy, the founder of Brooklyn's Casserole Competition and the author of the forthcoming book, Casserole Crazy (just like her site).

The book isn't quite ready for general consumption yet (it will be released on October 7th) but I got my hands on a preview copy and all I can say is, hold on to your hats casserole lovers, because you've got some good stuff coming to you. The book opens with a really fun introduction written by Julie Powell (of Julie and Julia fame). After that, Emily's voice takes over. She writes with a really engaging tone offers a bunch of casserole wisdom before diving into the recipes.

The book is organized into the following sections: Breakfasts (meals for meat-eaters and vegans alike), Appetizers (oven-baked dips galore!), Side Dishes (including the Sweet Potato Not Pie she makes here), Main Dishes (with recipes from Paula Deen and Donatella Arpaia), Macaroni and Cheese (I feel warm all over that she's dedicated an entire section to pasta and cheese) and Stove Top (things you can make when your oven in broken). She doesn't include any desserts in the collection, as she feels like dessert casseroles have other names like cobblers, crisps and pies and don't quite fit here (although I'm not one to throw a good cobbler out of bed).

Recipes I've bookmarked for future meals include her Zucchini and Sweet Corn Bake, Chicken Noodle Souperole and Chorizo Mac.

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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest: Our Bloggers

Does Your Digital Camera Have a 'Food' Setting?

Brioche Burger Buns for Bastille Day - Feast Your Eyes

'Mad City Chickens' - Chicks in the City

Bonnaroo Cuisine - This Ain't No Woodstock

Charlie vs. Emeril in Casserole Contretemps?

Casserole Crazy, Cookbook of the Day

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