"fried food" news and stories

Fried Beer Comes to the Texas State Fair

by Jason Best, Posted Aug 26th 2010 @ 1:00PM

Last year's winner, Deep Fried Butter. Photo: cmiked, Flickr

Ever since the inauguration five years ago of the Big Tex Choice Awards at the Texas State Fair, food vendors have been deep-frying the impossible in their pursuit of the Most Creative and Best Taste awards.

Nothing in the rules says the food has to be fried, but this is an event, after all, that carries the semi-official slogan: "Fried Food Capital of Texas."

Big Tex has given us the Deep Fried Latte, Texas Fried Cookie Dough, Fried Coke, and last year's Most Creative winner: Deep Fried Butter. That would seem to qualify the fair as the Fried Food Capital of the World.

This year's contestants have batter-dipped their way into whole new territory with two new concoctions: Fried Beer and the Deep Fried Frozen Margarita.

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Homemade French Fries - Feast Your Eyes

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by Cheryl Brown, Posted Jan 1st 2010 @ 10:00AM

jwannie, Flickr.

If this doesn't give you the urge to go into the kitchen and fry something right now, we can't imagine what would. You can almost feel your teeth breaking through that delicate golden crust, taste how those grains of salt work in perfect balance with the tender potato inside. Everything we bite into should be this dreamy.

Try making your own homemade fries following method in Tyler Florence's fish and chips recipe.

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State Fair Food Vendors Lure Workers on Their Lunch Hours

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by Hanna Raskin, Posted Oct 14th 2009 @ 11:00AM

Mykl Rovertine, flickr.

Acknowledging that even motivated eaters are struggling to complete their fried food checklists during a single visit to the fair, an increasing number of state fairs are now offering free lunch passes to stimulate more sampling.

Arkansas this week joined Missouri and Memphis's Mid-South Fair in pushing a program that re-imagines the midway as a vast office cafeteria, with chocolate-dipped fried bacon and hot beef sundaes standing in for grilled cheese sandwiches and Jello salad. Arkansas State Fair spokesman Ralph Eubanks said "Lunch at the Fair," featuring free parking and admission on weekdays from 11 a.m.- 1 p.m, was created in response to clamorous customer demand.

"We've had several requests and we decided to try it," Eubanks says. "We're making it logistically possible to provide workers with a quick corn dog."

Eubanks concedes most folks who punch out for a quick trip to the fair are unlikely to stick to what he calls "the old standbys": There are 30 new items available at the fair this year, including a taco in a bag and chicken parmesan on a stick. "We just kind of hit the jackpot," Eubanks marvels.

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Loaded Latkes - Feast Your Eyes

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by Emily Farris, Posted Sep 10th 2009 @ 10:00AM

Zucchini, Potato and Scallion Pancakes. Photo: Rec(ession)ipes.

As we transition from summer to fall, it's the perfect time to pair prime vegetables from each season.

And these zucchini, potato and scallion pancakes from Rec(ession)ipes beautifully capture the colors of autumn, while sneaking in the last tastes of summer. Pan-fried and topped with a dollop of chive sour cream, a glimpse at these almost makes up for the fact that we'll be seeing a lot less of the sun for a while. Almost.

[Via Rec(ession)ipies]

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Which Beach Food is Best?

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by Emily Farris, Posted Jul 30th 2009 @ 4:00PM

Fish and chips. Photo: jwannie, Flickr

We have joked (on more than one occasion) that if a rotted crab washed up on the beach of Brooklyn's notoriously less-than-pristine Coney Island and someone deep-fried it, we'd eat it.

As many psychiatrists will tell you, there is a hint of truth in all humor. There's just something so ... right about eating artery-clogging fried food oceanside. And per the folks at Concierge.com, who have just compiled a list of the world's 13 best beach foods, "to eat greasy French fries (or fried clams, or even fried dough) on the beach is human."

Perhaps it's the fact that sand cannot penetrate an armor of deep-fried batter (ever tried to eat a sandwich on the beach?). Or we could wax poetic and say the color of fried food was inspired by the shore itself. What's more likely, however, is that fried food stands line most boardwalks, at least in the United States, so it's what we eat -- just as we would a hot dog at the ballpark.

But that's just America. Adcock's "best of the world" list includes sausage and eggs in England, paella in Spain and fish tacos in Maui.