In search of culinary Nirvana
Star Wars + Cupcakes + LEGOs = Happy Buddha. You probably already realized this a few weeks ago when a great Star Wars Cupcake photo flickered across my stream. This time we can thank Rachel Manning and her eye-candy littered Flickr stream for this amazing doozey. Yes folks, those cupcake minifigs [what you might call …
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Call it a flash mob or perhaps an underground supper club. Whatever the term du jour, Feast Noir (website) is/was a type of gorilla warfare meets civilized tea time under admittedly friendly circumstances. The Atlanta dinner, which took place last night at Atlantic Station, is a self-admitted homage to the 23-years and running Dîner en …
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Tonight (aka August 14th), the Food Network is set to debut season two of The Great Food Truck Race (10/9c on Sundays). The street food/food truck themed television show rolled through cities across the country just a few short months ago. After hours in the editing booth, it appears the competition is ready for public …
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Star Provisions is getting into the “____-of-the-month-club” business. While wine shops near and far do this for their grape juice, Star will be offering up cheeses … lots of lots of cheeses. The name of said club is “Cheese & Crackers” and it is the brainchild of Atlanta’s most notable cheesemonger, one Tim Gaddis. You …
This one’s actually a few months old, but seeing as it came out during “The Dark Ages,” I thought I might as well put it up. The video above is from the party to celebrate Zagat’s list of the best 30 foodies under 30 years of age in New York. It’s an impressive list, available …
Dear 10 Degrees South, As a highly-trained and well-versed internet technologist, I take great interest in any restaurant’s web presence. Though it is an oft abused topic – great website development, as with any skilled form of labor, is in short order. As many will lament, the restaurant and food industry is a wasteland of …
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While I’m not a big desserts fan, I do love creative cakes as much as the next person. Example #3,287: this great looking Super Mario Brothers cake. Made by cmbooher, this was actually a birthday gift for her boyfriend. Video game geeks young and old are for ever jealous! [via Instructables]
I’m channeling my inner School House Rock love child with this one. As the best laid schemes of mice and men go oft awry, so too did my plan to have nice juicy review this AM for all your desires of consumption. Something about arriving home at 6AM isn’t conducive to highly detailed activities … …
FoodSpotting (link) is a website/phone app that focuses on dish recommendation above and beyond the typical restaurant review. Around roughly 18-month, the company announced today that they have seen over 1 million mobile app downloads across all platforms (currently android, iOS, and windows 7). Interestingly, it appears that a good section of people use the …
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El Bulli as the world knew it, is now merely a place of lore and legend. It was, is, and always will be a worldwide marker of seminal gastronomic importance in the way we Americans consider the events of 1776. The work of Ferran Adrià and the often overlooked minions of El B. was so …
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