Keyboard Cat cake. Photo: HB Art/Flickr
Slashfood's sister site Urlesque found this wonderful Internet Meme Cake and others including O Rly? Owl, Snakes on a Plane and even a Rick Roll treat.
Keyboard Cat plays us off after the jump.
Keyboard Cat and Other Internet Meme Cakes
Slashfood's sister site Urlesque found this wonderful Internet Meme Cake and others including O Rly? Owl, Snakes on a Plane and even a Rick Roll treat.
Keyboard Cat plays us off after the jump.
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Mice Photographed in Window at Junior's Cheesecake
Mice love cheese, no matter what its form.
The Brooklyn, N.Y., cheesecake institution Junior's, founded in downtown Brooklyn in 1950, prides itself as "New York's Best Cheesecake," but it's now scrambling to clean up its reputation after photographs posted on the Internet over the weekend show some rodents enjoying a snack in the bakery's window display.
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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest
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| LU Crème Roulee Tin. Image: Amazon. |
Slow Food advocates organize potluck "eat-ins" to boost school lunch funding.
T.G.I. Friday's to give first 500,000 Facebook fans free food.
Club Med launches food blogger camp program, mixing beach bathing with blogger seminars led by prominent writers.
French snacks come to Mercedes Benz Fashion Week with a LU Café, exhibiting designer Erin Fetherston's limited-edition Crème Roulee Rolled Wafer tin at the Bryant Park Tents.
Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food," calls for food industry reform in the wake of Obama's health care reform speech.
Unsuspecting teachers got high off "church bake sale" brownies. Symptoms they chalked up to food poisoning were actually the result of pot brownies at a sidewalk sale that was, evidently, not benefiting a church.
Julia Child's illustrator isn't a foodie and doesn't have much interest in seeing the movie "Julie & Julia."
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Cheese or Font?
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| Photo: CheeseorFont.mogrify.org |
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Pears Shaped Like Baby Buddhas
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| Buddha pears. Photo: WENN.com |
A Chinese farmer been tinkering with modified pears since 2003, and this year he's reportedly grown 10,000 edible Buddhas. But are they too cute to eat? Tell us what you think in the comments below!
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Padma Lakshmi Indie Rocker
"Top Chef" may be in full swing, but its cohost, Padma Lakshmi, continues to diversify.
The model-actress-cook stars in a new video for the Eels' "That Look You Give That Guy." Band member Mark Oliver Everett told Slashfood's sister site, Spinner, that "I always dreamt of dating someone as beautiful as Padma Lakshmi. I should probably just go back to dreaming."
The video shows a date between the two with the sometimes burger eater feeding Everett's dog, Bobby Jr., and hawking her cookbook. Product placement brought to you by
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Wheel of Lunch Picks Your Meal for You
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| Wheel of Lunch. Photo: wheelof.com/lunch |
Ponder no longer! Let the Wheel of Lunch make your mind up for you. Simply punch in your ZIP code and give the wheel a spin by clicking your mouse. The mighty wheel will pick a place near you, give you a link to its Yahoo review site, and send you out the door. Don't like the choice? Spin again -- especially if the wheel tells you to skip lunch (who does that?!).
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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest
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| Grown-up sodas. Image: Details. |
BoingBoing picks up The Economist's story (and awesome graphic): "How many minutes do people in your city have to work to buy a Big Mac?"
Adult sodas from the stylish fellas at Details.
Starbucks-lovers, alert! They are lowering prices on some drinks but kicking them up a notch on others.
The L.A. Times reports: Facebook has created "Restaurant City." You may never get work done again.
Another ephemerally gorgeous piece from Design*Sponge's "In The Kitchen With" column, featuring a meringue-raspberry ice cream cake and some enviable dishware.
Portland, Oregon continues to rule, with a Fermentation Fest on Thursday of next week. (Clearly either our invite was lost in the mail, or they do not know about our pickling problems.)
Have you sampled the blackberries in the market right now? They are super-sweet. This Blackberry-Cabernet Caipirinha from Chow had us drooling.
The best Bruni interview of the bunch -- from the New Yorker.
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Frank Bruni and the Art of Not Being Seen
How does a man with a price tag on his head -- or at least his face -- keep from having his photo snapped by fellow partygoers or folks out for a hefty reward? Former New York Times restaurant critic Frank Bruni explains the art of ducking the spotlight in this Skype video from Salon's Kerry Lauerman.
[Via: 'Binger turned food critic' at Salon.com]
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Frank Bruni Gives Choco Taco Zero Stars, Rants About Review Dinners
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| Frank Bruni reviews the Choco Taco. Video: ABC's Nightline. |
"I believe that food that rhymes is almost always better than food that doesn't rhyme, don't you?" he says in the outtake released to the press, in which he calls a reporter "namby-pamby" for ordering a soft-serve ice cream cone instead of his own adventurous "South of the Border" choice.
Who knows if new national critic Sam Sifton will have Bruni's talent with one-liners, but we do know that, after reading this morning's (very accurate) description of the dinner review process, we will miss him: About a woman who "fumed" if her steak arrived at the table already cut, he writes, "People are as strange about eating as they are about love. They want what they want."
Perhaps our favorite description, though, is of those who just don't eat. One friend demanded that they order a fatty porterhouse with fries, and then "She commenced such frantic knife and fork movements that a veritable cloud of dust rose around her -- I was reminded of a Road Runner cartoon. When the dust settled 15 minutes later, I took a close look at her plate, and almost nothing was missing. The food had just been reconstituted and rearranged, a Picasso of its former self."
If this is the stuff of his new memoir, we'll be reading it.
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Tweak Today Asks: What Food Do You Hate That Everyone Else Loves?
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| Coffee is not for everyone. Photo: bitzcelt, Flickr |
Though a few responses are cultural markers ("The Princess Bride," Elton John, Michael Jackson), we are seeing a slew of food-related numbers pop up there, from shrimp to melons to coffee to oysters. So now's your chance. Pop on over and express your loathing in pictoral form. Maybe grab some coffee first. Or don't, if that's how you roll.
[Via Tweak Today]
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Editor's Picks - Best of the Rest: Our Bloggers
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| Gazpacho. Photo: Emily Farris, Fifty Bucks a Week. |
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.
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Buildings That Look Like Food
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| Orange building. Photo: realitythroughmylens via Urlesque. |
But there are some inedible objects that really are meant to resemble food, including these buildings that our buddies at Urlesque rounded up. Why? Well, uh, who wouldn't want to enter a building that looks like it was made of a wall of bacon?
See more food-inspired architecture at Urlesque.
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Tortang Talong How-To
Eggplants. They just hang out in the farmer's market like they own the joint. Big, fat, smug and kingly purple.
And we can't resist them. In an attempt to partake of their charms without heating the heck out of muggy apartments, we were pleased to stumble upon this recipe for Tortang Talong, a traditional Filipino recipe that brings egg and pork into the eggplantian universe.
Yup, egg. No big surprise to see it sneak into the equation, since it's had cross-cultural starring roles in pork-vegetable dishes from Japanese ramen to Korean bibimbap. But watching this video somehow still floored us: "Tortang Talong!" Who doesn't want to brag to her friends that she's whipping that up for dinner? Check it out and let us know if you give it a go.
[Via Howcast]
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How to Cut Open a Lobster with Chef Marc Murphy
Summer leaves seafood lovers craving lobster in some incarnation, whether it be tucked into a buttery roll, scattered throughout risotto or luxuriating in the butter-cream bath of lobster Thermidor (thought to have been a favorite of Napoleon).
However you like your lobster, getting to its tender meat can be nightmarish, with spiny claws and juice flying everywhere. Not so in this excellent Howcast video, with a demonstration by chef Marc Murphy of New York City's Landmarc, who knows his way around the leggy critters. Who knew you could either snip open or crush those dastardly knuckles? Or crush the tail under a towel?
The video even ends with a quirky factoid: Boiling lobsters alive in Reggio Emilia, Italy is illegal, with violators facing fines nearing $800. We wonder how many Italians risk it!
[Via Howcast]
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What Can I Get You Folks? - Server Revenge
Reality-Show Celebrities Serve Up Chef Curtis Stone's 'Hundred-Dollar Burger'
Foods Celebrity Chefs Hate
