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Eggs and Toast - Feast Your Eyes

Posted Apr 1st 2009 10:00AM by Sara Bonisteel
Filed under: Feast Your Eyes

Or is it? Eggs on Sunday posted this April Fool to the Slashfood flickr pool last year, and while it looks like a soft-boiled egg with toast, it's actual her culinary prank. Eggs on Sunday recreates the egg with pudding and curd made from Meyer lemons, and simulates her "toast" with cinnamon cake slices using a recipe adapted from Gourmet.

Have you ever done an April Fools' Day foodie prank? Tell us about it.

Did anyone catch this April fool's joke from Butterfinger?

Posted Apr 7th 2008 6:00PM by Shayna Glick
Filed under: Candy, On the Blogs, Holidays

Someone's hand holding a Butterfinger candy bar.

Did anyone else catch this joke? I know it's a few days late, but I just came across it and I don't remember seeing it on any other food blogs. This is actually pretty funny, and I wish I had seen it in time for the actual day in question.

I found a press release that claimed that Nestle's Butterfinger bar was changing its name to the Finger, effective immediately. I didn't even notice the date of the press release until later, but I wondered to myself if this wasn't a late April fool's joke. Nope, it was a right-on-time joke.

Anyway, check this out for the whole joke. Hopefully you'll laugh as much as I did, even if it is a little late.

Gin Notes: Dancing Spirits Elixirs - Golden Djinn Gin - Private Reserve - Distillers Strength

Posted Apr 1st 2007 2:03PM by Jonathan M. Forester
Filed under: Lush Life, Gin, Raves & Reviews, Trends, New Products, America, Liquor Cabinet

Dancing Spirits Elixirs Golden Djinn Gin is 62.7% abv. / 125.4 proof. Bottled as a Private Reserve – Distillers Strength Gin, it's uncut by water and strong as sin. Only its exceptional smoothness keeps this incredible powerhouse of a spirit from being overwhelming. In Islamic mythology, the Djinn are fiery spirits, and this is one fiery spirit., but magically tempered with the dancing botanicals.

That's right, this is not your traditional London Dry Gin, but one of those new, super premium, in your face, brash as brass, strong as a super hero, golden gins. It starts as a quintuple distilled dry gin made in the traditional fashion with juniper, coriander, angelica root, and a plethora of other botanicals. Then it is infused with even more botanicals which amp up the aroma and flavor, and gives it a deep, rich gold color. This is one of those rare, difficult to track down, incredible spirits that can change your life with a sip.

As the label says, "A vibrant and bold, golden, old style gin, infused with piney Yugoslavian juniper berries, fragrant Zanzibarian green cardamom pods, smoky Nepalese black cardamom pods, intense Indian turmeric, tart Syrian sumac berries, complex Jamaican allspice, herbaceous Indian celery seed, floral Zanzibarian black peppercorns, sweet Vietnamese cinnamon, fragrant Indonesian nutmeg, floral Indian kala jeera, and pungent Ceylon cloves."

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Fiftieth Anniversary of the Famous Spaghetti Harvest

Posted Apr 1st 2007 10:10AM by Jonathan M. Forester
Filed under: Farming, Television/Film, Food Oddities, The History of..., Did you know?, Europe

It was fifty years ago that BBC first broadcast the famous "Spaghetti Harvest" episode on their television news show Panorama. In Ticino in southern Swistzerland near Italy, the British Broadcasting Company show Panorama covered the bumper Swiss spaghetti crop of 1957.

While scenes of harvesters working in the spaghetti orchards played on the screen, the show's anchor, Richard Dimbleby, discussed how a mild winter and less infestations of the "spaghetti weevil" allowed farmers to harvest a huge crop from the Spaghetti Bushes.

Dimbleby reported, "The spaghetti harvest here in Switzerland is not, of course, carried out on anything like the tremendous scale of the Italian industry, many of you, I'm sure, will have seen pictures of the vast spaghetti plantations in the Po Valley. For the Swiss, however, it tends to be more of a family affair."

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Eggs and Toast - Feast Your Eyes

Did anyone catch this April fool's joke from Butterfinger?

Gin Notes: Dancing Spirits Elixirs - Golden Djinn Gin - Private Reserve - Distillers Strength

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Famous Spaghetti Harvest

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