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No, I didn’t forget to do What Was That Ingredient last week. I just didn’t do it. There just wasn’t a single piece of content worth writing about. Thankfully, this week’s episode of Top Chef Texas had lots of good stuff for those interested in food. First, there was a whole challenge dedicated to the …
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Hi, I’m Foodie Buddha and I’m a hot sauce addict. Now that that’s out of the way: Top Chef Texas’s latest episode was stuffed with chilis of all types. The topics du jour were the various kinds of chili peppers and the vast number of ways one can concoct chili con carne (the proper name …
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via NYT That infograph above is Park’s and Recreation’s Ron Swanson’s conceptualization of the ideal food pyramid. While the real food pyramid was actually replaced this year by the MyPlate movement, it’s no surprise to see a man as great as Mr. Swanson sticking to the old school pyramid shape as he navigates this …
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A few months ago, TV personality Andrew Zimmern was spotted in both Atlanta and Athens filming segments for a season 3 episode of Appetite For Life. A4L is an online “TV” show that focuses on Southern food and culture. After a few months editing, the Atlanta episode is now available online. The episode includes lots …
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A quinceañera, the title for this weeks episode of Top Chef Texas, is a Latin America party celebrated in countries up and down Central and South America. The impetus behind the celebration is a girl’s15th birthday and the quinceañera serves as a symbol of her passage into womanhood. So it’s against that backdrop that we …
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courtesy toughkidcst on flickr People expect the chefs and cooks who appear on Top Chef to do things most home cooks can’t do. This season of Top Chef Texas has started off notably restrained in that respect. It’s not to say that cooking good simple food isn’t equally as important on the TV show, …
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We all know how important it is for a food critic to be anonymous when visiting a restaurant. So you can imagine my dismay when I first heard that this week’s episode The Simpsons, entitled The Food Wife, is centered around Marge Simpson and her foray into the world of gastronomy. Here are a few …
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Last night, as the premier episode of Top Chef Texas came to a close, there was a collective grunt in the world of the food literati. Not always known for their technical prowess, writers everywhere grumbled over the need to familiarize themselves with ways to insert an umlaut/diaeresis into online posts. With no traditional elimination …
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Talk show host/funny man/sage Conan O’Brien is doing his late night TV show from The Big Apple. As we all know, New York City is a bubbling metropolis of foodie heaven. One of the most amazing things about NYC is that you can get almost any type of food delivered. Seriously … even McDonald’s delivers! …
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Bravo’s Top Chef TV series is to reality food TV what the Real World is to the genre as a whole. That is, Top Chef is the longstanding stalwart of the category and the show that defined the genre. On Wednesday, October 2nd, Top Chef slips back into its familiar slot at 10pm EST as …
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