"Meneghini" news and stories

Julia Child's 10 best bon mots. Photo: Chow

Chow sums up its 10 favorite Julia-isms in time for tonight's release of "Julie and Julia". Our fave? "When a sommelier asked her to name her favorite wine, she replied, 'Gin.'"

Holy adorableness, Batman: Bakerella's pie pops.

Bill Keller, editor of the New York Times, jumps on the Diner's Journal blog to weigh in on the non-anonymity of new critic Sam Sifton.

Freakishly beautiful Meneghini refrigerators, via Apartment Therapy.

Speaking of John Hughes, over at sibling site Moviefone they've summed up the 10 best cinematic moments in eating.

BoingBoing finds a great Snopes article about Van Halen trashing a concert venue after finding forbidden brown M&M's in the backstage area. Apparently David Lee Roth used the candies as a litmus test of a venue.

As we saw earlier this week, high-design refrigerators have evolved so much that they make the once-chic Subzero look downright dowdy.

But could anything be further from the sleek Subzero than the refrigerator shown here? Yes, that's a fridge, not an armoire. At $21,000 the La Cambusa costs more expensive than the pimped out Swarovski refrigerator. It's part of the Meneghini line by Robeys whose web site says the design was inspired by a ship's galley. Perhaps one reason for the excessive cost is that like a gallety this fridge is a minikitchen. It features a coffee maker and steam oven. If I couold afford one for my apartment I'd rip out my stove and add some much-needed counter space.

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