Fast food: ads vs. reality [via Rich]
What's cooking, grandma? Grandmas of the world share their special recipes.
Mexican Coca-Cola is the "Real Thing": It's made with sugar, not high-fructose corn syrup. Coke officials would have you believe nobody can tell the difference, but reality is somewhat different. Apparently, most people can tell the difference, and prefer the real stuff. Some (all?) Costcos are selling Mexican Coke.
My six-week journey to the land of the thin — extreme dieting
Clams in garlic and wine — YUM!!
No single change you can make to your diet is more important than altering what you drink: "About 21 percent of calories consumed by Americans over the age of 2 come from beverages." You are what you drink.
Bad news for J.D.: Chinese restaurant food unhealthy, study says
China's true dash of flavor &mash; singing the praises of MSG, one of my favorite food additives [via Paul J.]
Hydracoach [via lauren]
for Jenn and Jeremy: the Rachael Ray drinking game
Fat cat done in by doggie door [via Celeste and Amanda, who says to be sure to watch the video]
Dark restaurants — eating in total darkness. This sounds very, well, strange. [via Andrew Parker]
For comics-lovers and cereal-lovers: Breakfast of the Gods: The Last Good Morning
The Daily Plate, a calorie- and fitness-tracking site
How to create a Basil Wallbanger cocktail — for future reference
Vegetables, not fruit, help fight memory problems in old age — bad news for me!
My kind of store: Cacao is a new chocolate store in downtown Portland [via Amy Jo]
Food 101: Nutritional Guidance, from Lauren Muney at Physical Mind. I am about to embark on an adventure with Muney, who is a wellness coach. Her page on basic nutrition is excellent — it matches with everything I've read in the past.
The Ethicurean: chew the right thing. An ethicurean is "someone who seeks out tasty things that are also sustainable, organic, local, and/or ethical".
There's hope for me yet! Scientists take step toward obesity vaccine — "A vaccine that slows down a key hunger hormone kept rats from gaining weight, even when they over ate, U.S. researchers reported on Monday." [via Dave]
Fantastic map of lunch carts in Portland. Very useful...
Part of an AskMe derail: lemon sticks sound intriguing, but they're a Baltimore-only thing...
Nightmare restaurant experience: take your table and shove it, a tale of a stolen reservation
Good Things to Eat as suggested by Rufus — "A collection of practical recipes for preparing meats, game, fowl, fish, puddings, pastries, etc. by Rufus Estes, formerly of the Pullman Private Car Service, and present chef of the subsidiary companies of the United States Steel Corporations of Chicago, published by the author. 1911.
For Jeremy: Sushi tips — how to eat sushi
Food Cravings — if you crave this... what you reall need is this... and here are some foods that have it...
The Way We Eat: Olde School (may require NYT registration) [via megnut]
Great essay at 2Blowhards on the food we eat: The Slaughterhouse and the Carrot. Almost makes me take the Miron anti-pork stance. Almost.
Awesome info for foodies: knife maintenance and sharpening
Excellent post for those who are new to cooking: food-prep for newbies. Heck, some of it's even good for those of us who cook all the time. Who doesn't love Alton Brown?
Two restaurants in San Francisco — Tomas Keller's The French Laundry and Alice Waters' Chez Panisse — are on the list of the world's fifty best restaurants. (The French Laundry is #4.) We're going to be in San Francisco in August. Damn straight, I'm eating at both places! [via kottke]
Big Fat Facts — the truth about fat, obesity, gastric bypass, and weight loss. "In the decade since Koop's alarmist moral panic, the freedom to live in bodies larger than contemporary culture deems proper has been increasingly threatened." [via frykitty]
How to make vegan twinkies: "The biggest difference between these and regular Twinkies® is that these taste good."
Delicious Days, a foodblog [via matt]
Awesome! Tacqueria Nueve — read this not for the review, but for the story at the beginning of the entry. [via frykitty]
Cancer can't stand the heat — Capsaicin, which makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, US and Japanese researchers say. [via Dave]
Read the numbers on your fruit — they may be trying to tell you something.
Hand-made all-natural thin-mint cookies, like those sold by Girl Scouts but without the bad stuff... [via AmyJo]
Oscarlicious, the best Oscar party ever!
The single man's guide to TV dinners rates all sorts of frozen foods, finding the best so that you don't have to experience the worst.
Where hamburger comes from (auf Deutsch)
I need to try this place: Ken's Artisan Bakery. What do you say, AmyJo? Hot chocolate at Sahagun followed by some fresh bread?
I've died and gone to heaven! Evil Jungle Prince is a food blog covering all my favorite cuisines. If only Kris liked this food, too.
The Girl Scout cookie equivalency chart helps one find cookies all year-round! [via mefi]
A food critic goes undercover in My Week as a Waiter (NYT login required)
Insect candy — okay, I'm not that adventurous...
Consumer Reports: when buying organic pays and doesn't, a brief guide [via kottke]
The Ground Meat Cookbook: 204 intriguing ground meat recipes (from 1955, and featuring line-drawings of animals cooking) [via bb]
News flash! AmyJo's foodblog is now operational. Go visit From a Corner Table! Mmmmm... Delicious
Bitter Brew: I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. [One reason I don't follow through on my dream to open a restaurant.]
The hottest curry in New York — I love hot curry, but as I've aged my stomach has become less able to, well, digest it...
EatingWell Magazine special report: Faux Foods: where have all our nutrients gone? [via AmyJo, of course!]
Awesome AskMe: What do I do about my food-addicted boyfriend? This question strikes very close to home. I would call myself food-addicted but trying not be...
Mighty Foods — a site about natural foods, organic ingredients, fair-trade products, veg-friendly recipes, sustainable farming, whole grains, organic wines, ingredient spotlights, news, profiles, reviews, gift ideas, new product information, culinary travel ideas, studies and trends - information and inspiration, all wrapped up in one food-loving bundle. Updated often. [via AmyJo]
Hillbilly Housewife isn't really what it sounds like: "The focus here is on low-cost, home-cooking from scratch. The recipes are all tested in a real kitchen with hungry children, stalking cats, begging puppies and a playful husband underfoot."
Everything you wanted to know about curry but were afraid to ask. I love curry. Kris does not. That's all I need to know. :(
A Flickr photoset: Mom's Recipes — These are scans of all of the recipes in my mom's recipe collection. (This is awesome!)
The dish on the Bushes. I found this NYT Magazine feature amusing.
Great AskMe discussion: Should I stop being vegetarian?
Recently updated entry: best gingerbread cookies ever
ChinaVista's recipe corner — as if I need another source for Asian recipes
Via AmyJo: Food Porn, a long scholarly article about food writing, and Saute Wednesday, "random links to food articles and other bits of cork in your wine glass..."
Candy You Ate as a Kid features all sorts of old candy that you may remember from your youth. For Lisa's sake, I hope they have circus peanuts. (They do! You can build your own bag of candy. Fantastic!) [via Lisa, who is getting old]
Willamette Week has published its annual restaurant guide. Instead of a restaurant of the year, the've name a street of the year: NE Alberta. They cite one of our favorites — Ciao Vito — as a key to this street's success.
Hungry? Learn everything you ever wanted to know about hot dogs (including history and legends of hot dogs), sip on Coca-Cola's secret formula, and then have an Easter Bunny Twinkie car for dessert!
The food timeline is a fun way to explore the history of edibles. Great for my foodie friends!