Warren Ellis in the Kitchen

If you want some recipes, written like no one but Warren Ellis can do, check out his Experiments in Food post. A couple choice passages from his Sweet Potatoes and Roasted Garlic Mash: “Open a bottle of beer…a proper beer, damnit…Pour some down your throat. Now pour some in the tinfoil. A mouthful or so. [...]

Tom Colicchio Wants Your Money

Look, I like Top Chef.  It’s one of the only reality shows I actually watch and enjoy.  The other?  Wipeout.  Who doesn’t love seeing people try jumping over ridiculously large balls?  But that’s not the point of this post.  The point is that Tom Colicchio, who seems like a serious, but friendly guy, may be [...]

Recipe – Kristin’s Totally Original, Not Stolen From Dr. Weil Carrot Cake

I’m slowly being won over to the dark side that is Carrot Cake.  It used to be my least favorite “cake” around.  I don’t like healthy things in my desserts.  It’s a sin against nature.  But my friend and coworker Kristin introduced me to a way I think I can live with even actually making [...]

Yeast Baby!

I’ve finally done it.  I’ve created my very own sourdough-starting yeast baby.  I promised myself that it would be one of the first things I did once we got situated in the apartment, and true to my word I tossed some flour, water and sugar together to see what would happen. Days 1 & 2 [...]

Recipe – Quick ‘n’ Easy Soy-Rizo Paella

I never heard of Donna Hay Magazine until this very weekend.  And the quick perusal of it at the local Border’s is probably the closest I’ll come to seeing it again.  As interesting as Donna Hay was, at 90 dollars for a 6 issue subscription, that’s out of the price range of pretty much everyone [...]

Recipe – Vegetarian Fiesta Con Queso Soup

Fans of Panera soup may recognize this soup. Every other year or so, around the fall season/Chrismas time, Panera unleashes what is easily their best soup ever. You heard me right. EVER. Ask around. Ask the people I spent 6 months working with, enslaved inside the Christmas Around The Mall store, where it was ALWAYS [...]

Drink Cola At An Early Age!

I need a copy of this for our kitchen.  Framed and on the wall.  I love old advertisements, but this may be the best one I’ve seen in years. How soon is too soon? Not soon enough. Laboratory tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during that early [...]

Disturbing Restaurants Abroad

I have to share this before I go to bed. Crack.com’s 8 Most Terrifying Restaurants.

Hot Beef Sundae

Never let your parents tell you again that you can’t have dessert for dinner!  Thank you Nebraska for cracking the code and making the world safe dessert dinner eaters. What comes in a Hot Beef Sundae?  Glad you asked: Golden mashed potatoes covered with a generous portion of our roasted and seasoned-to-perfection top round beef.  [...]

Little Gordon Returns

Little Gordon Ramsay returns!  This time he brings his adorably foul mouth to the school cafeteria to go after the substandard sausages being offered up at the school. Click on Little Gordon to be taken to the new video.