I found this while cruising around the interweb this morning… Apparently, this is the worlds most remote restaurant. You have to walk/climb an outrageous path to get there, but if you make it (alive) you get a free lunch… You can check out more about the region here: Mount_Hua I laughed when I read that …
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Food Fail: Scary Face Food
Who wouldn’t like to eat a sanwich where the cold cuts looked like a lauging clown? Hahaha scary clown, I eat you. Vengeance is mine. Then I feel kinda gross in a cannibalistic way for eating a) mystery meat b) anthropomorphic meat. Thanks to Fail Foods for this one.
Epic Food Scan 4: Alien Potato Thing
Straight from the bowels of an irate alien comes this wonderful and oh-so appetizing potato concoction. Note the wonderful and descriptive title. Note the wonderfully articulated swirls. All in and all another epic food scan. Again, click to see the image in all its green glory.
Book Review: Les Halles Cookbook
Anthony Bourdain is pretty well known. Unlike some of his contemporaries, he has done a good job of keeping close to his personality. While some other celebrity chefs have poured their efforts into reality shows, toothpaste commercials, prepared foods, gimmicky food appliances and dumbed down chain restaurants, Bourdain has kept his efforts focused on food. …
Epic Food Scan 3: Aspic Asteroid
Here we go with another food scan. This wonderful looking culinary asteroid is an aspic salad. While I do not doubt that the skill level required to make this epic creation is pretty high, the results are less then appetizing. Can you imagine getting a nice slice of this goodness? Can you imagine letting a …
Knife skill videos
Well it turns out youtube has bunch of fun videos about knife skills. If anybody has some videos they want to put up, drop me a line. Here we go with a few quick ones… Tuna prep with really bad editing…but look at the size of that fish and how easy he fillets it! More …
Fear Not The Knife
As a seasoned (translated OLD) cook I guess I have a lot of experience in chopping, slicing, dicing, all that stuff. In the process I’ve lost a fingertip on a few occasions plus the odd fingernail. Initially I bought what was “expected” rather than what felt great in my hand. I think that’s why I …
Restaurant Review: Cava
Its a Thursday night at about 8:30. I’m dressed in jeans and a cardigan. We’ve been painting all day; splatters in my hair, on my arms. We are tired, hungry, a little brain dead and in need of nourishment. Its a little late to start thinking about dinner and we drive aimlessly. The Set Up …
Nothing says ‘love’ like cold ham mousse.
This scan is of a lovely salad. Feel the romance of cold ham mousse. Feel it. Touch it. And you said it couldn’t be done. Shame on you. click to see it in all its glory.
Food Fail: God Bless McNuggets
There are times when I wonder how places like McDonalds stay around… Then I remind myself that every once in a while, Im a sucker for a Big Mac. Sigh. This was taken from Failblog.org. God Bless McNuggets.
Lessons in abject nonsense
Or how internet explorer made a pretty site ugly. It turns out that after slaving away over some css to make the site all handsome, Internet Explorer does not know how to read web standards compliant css code. To mourn the loss of a handsome site and the sad, sorry lesson of IE’s gross inadequacies, …
Food Scan 2: Log Thing
“Quick lad, pipe me a log thing!” I have never seen such wanton, gratuitous use of a pipping bag in my life.
DIY Sous Vide Challenge
Evan and I are looking to build a DIY sous vide machine. We are sourcing the parts and are just about to ready to rock and roll. If anyone is interested in playing with us, drop us a line… Here’s what we’ve come up with so far: -in principal any body of water can be …
Food Scan 1: You and Your Kitchen
Our first food scan takes us into the modern kitchen. Here, finally, in one place, are all the items a modern chef will need to get cooking… All joking aside, not much has changed when you really look at it. But my god, look at the colors! Click on the image to see it in …
Province shuts down Niagara chef school
Taken from the Toronto Star: Ministry, border patrol raid site after students from India say they were used as `cheap labour’