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Breaking Blog News: Tastespotting Is Back

Did you see? Tastespotting is back up......

Good Web (and Wine) Resource: Nirvino

Like Metacritic, or Rotten Tomatoes - but for wine. That was the first thing we thought when we came across Nirvino. Nirvino takes critics' scorings and review and assembles them for comprehensive cov...

Food Blog News: Tastespotting Alternatives

Well, the food blogs and boards have been buzzing all weekend with sorrow and speculation about Tastespotting's mysterious demise. We have already come across a couple of new food photo galleries that...

Food Blog News: Tastespotting Is No More

What the... While going through our daily blog reads last night, we visited Tastespotting and discovered that the entire site has been taken down. In its place is a handwritten note from founder Jean ...

Tofu Croutons, Pickled Grapes, and a Microwave Garage
Seen, noted, and found delicious. 06.06.08

What's looking good today? Well, there's a sleek way to hide your microwave, some good summer snacks and a sad (yet delicious) farewell post from one of our very favorite blogs. ...

Hot or Not: New Bon Appétit Website

Classic food mag Bon Appétit launched a new website yesterday with a look that was begun a little while ago with their new logo. We're impressed with what we've seen so far; we like that they are org...

Good Eats: Broccoli and Crisp Garlic

Broccoli Sautéed with Crisp Garlic - you don't have to say much more to get our attention. Yes, broccoli is perhaps the most over-used and abused vegetable on the face of the earth, but done right (e...

Good Eats: Giant Pine Nuts from Chile

We were captivated by this photo from Serious Eats. It's a photo of a whole bowl of piñones, or pine nuts, that Robyn Lee discovered on her recent trip to Chile. These, however, are more the size of ...

Food Shopping in Paris and Montmartre with Chocolate & Zucchini’s Clotilde Dusoulier

Enter Slideshow Clotilde Dusoulier started her popular Paris-based English-language food blog Chocolate & Zucchini in 2003, but she first got interested in cooking while living in Northern Californ...

Book Review: Clotilde's Edible Adventures in Paris

We have been big fans of Clotilde Dusoulier's weblog Chocolate & Zucchini for a long time. We have made her Melt in Your Mouth Chocolate Cake many times, and we enjoy her friendly and approachable...

Passover Breakfasts

Some people think that breakfast is the easiest meal during Passover, content to have an excuse to eat deliciously rich matzah brei every day. But for those of us used to having a simple dish of toa...

More Passover Food from The Jew and The Carrot

Just a couple more days until Passover! Here are a few more great posts from Jewish community organization Hazon's food blog, The Jew and The Carrot. Also make sure to check out our recent interview...

Passover Food from The Jew and The Carrot

Passover begins this weekend, and while we have been giving you some inspiration, like tips on Seder plates and traditions, we have also been looking around the web for more good ideas and recipes for...

Good Eats: Egg Salad And Watercress Sandwich

Our friends at Serious Eats are always up for a good sandwich, and this week it's a British classic: Open-Faced Egg Salad And Watercress Sandwich. The creamy egg and peppery watercress, pulled togethe...

New York in Season: Lucy's Greenmarket Report

In the winter, we don't go to the greenmarket that often. Instead, we mostly just sigh as we look at the farmer's market reports from California, and occasionally stop by for some hardy root vegetable...

Look! Name that Pasta

Think you know your fusilli from your gemelli? Can you tell the difference between stellete and pastina? Looking for a ten-minute brain diversion, we stumbled upon this fun little quiz. ...

Good Eats: What Is a Pomelo?

The pomelo just seems...intimidating. We've never been so daring as to haul home one of these basketball-sized (OK, Nerf-basketball-sized) citrus fruits. What would we do with that five-pound ball of...

The Hungry Reader: The Devil's Food Dictionary

The Devil's Dictionary is a satirical work by Ambrose Bierce, written between 1881 and 1906, and also going under the name The Cynic's Word Book. It lampoons common human failings, politicians, religi...

2008 James Beard Award Nominees Announced

The 2008 James Beard Award nominees were recently announced, and they read like a who's who in cooking and food media right now. But what would you expect - the Beard Awards are one of the highest sta...

Good Eats: Carrots in Marsala

In our weekly roundup of the best eating and cooking over at Serious Eats, we're continually drawn towards Gina DePalma's Snapshots from Italiy. This week she makes a recipe from Elizabeth David's cla...

Recipe for Entertaining: Elegant Pancetta Cups

Like most of the rest of the blogosphere, we fell in love with blogger notmartha's genius bacon cups. Who doesn't love the marriage of crafts and bacon? But after reading her description of the arduou...

Good Eats: Roman Easter Soup

Here's a lovely and appealing recipe from our friends at Serious Eats: a recipe from Gina de Palma, a chef at Mario Batali's New York restaurant and author of Dolce Italiano: Desserts from the Babbo K...

Absinthe Cupcakes at Coconut & Lime

Coconut and Lime developed a delicious-looking absinthe cupcake, topped with green fairy icing and a sugar cube. We think the fresh anise taste and the green pastel color is just right for Spring and...

Showstopper: Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake with Chocolate Ganache

We had planned to write a post about the rising cost of food, or something equally serious. But any pretensions of gravity flew out the window as soon as we saw this cake, attached to the magic words:...

The Pillsbury Bake-Off: The Best (and the Strangest) Entries

The Pillsbury Bake-Off always holds a strange fascination. Though many of the recipes seem bizarre and rely heavily on processed foods, the contest does inspire entrants to be creative. Most of the re...