29.12.09

New Year's Resolution: Learn to Cook!

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FoodHere's a couple of posts from some of my favorite blogs to help you learn to cook in 2010:

From MakeUseOf.com: Learn How To Cook With These Online Resources

and from the awesome LifeHacker: Six Kitchen Skills You Can Pick Up This Weekend - Cooking - Lifehacker

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28.12.09

Night Owls, Insomniacs and Vampires: Noctur.nl

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http://noctur.nl/images/leftowl.pngFor those of you who find yourself awake during the night more often than not and cannot sem to find a decent place to eat or drink that's open past the witching hour, Noctur.nl is for you. It utilizes Google maps to show you where establishments are open late near you, it is free ad you don't need to register! Also, you can follow Noctur.nl on Twitter: @nocturnl

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24.12.09

MyFood-A-Pedia

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Food-a-pedia banner MyFood-a-Pedia is a new site where you can find nutritional info and food groups for any food. You can also compare the difference between two different foods. It's pretty intuitive, updating live as you select options for the food you searched for. It also gives you daily recommendations for food group intake so you can compare. Pretty Handy!


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23.12.09

Find a Vegetarian Anything

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International Vegetarian UnionInternational Vegetarian Union hosts a database of establishments and businesses the globe over that cater to vegetarians. A quick search will yield hotels, restaurants, animal rights organizations, publications, animal-friendly fashion, tips for children on a veggie diet, health groups and articles and much, much more. If you are a vegetarian-friendly business, you can add your listing to their database for free as well.


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KidsEatFor.com is an amazing web site for those of us who're lucky enough to have babies. It is a searchable database of dining deals for kids, including a lot of kids eat free deals. Which is totally awesome when they're really little because most of it ends up on the floor and their face, anyway.


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18.12.09

Um. White Castle Stuffing?

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I don't even know what to say about using White Castle burgers to make turkey stuffing...
The Chicago Sun-Times is offering a suggestion that could vastly improve your Thanksgiving meal, or turn this year's family gathering into a disaster of Michael Bay proportions. Depending on your point of view. Behold, the recipe for slider stuffing, which calls for "18 White Castle hamburgers (no pickles), chopped into 1-inch pieces," along with more usual suspects like button mushrooms, chicken stock, butter, onions, celery and sage.

Read the rest: Slider Stuffing - Boing Boing


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16.12.09

Chipotle iPhone App

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Let me tell you, I could have used a simple food ordering app for my close to 2 hour lunch ordeal today:
The Chipotle iPhone food ordering app is the first of its kind that I’ve seen that makes ordering food very simple.

You can tell the app developers put a lot of thought in how to make the user interface relatively easy to use and aesthetically appealing. The application is built in a hierarchical manner, whereby a limited list of menu items in which you click to further drill down into additional menu items for more levels of details.

To order food using the app, you of course have to set up an account that includes your credit card. Based on the feedback the application has received, it is better to create your account online rather than through the application.

After clicking the application‘s opening screens and using the location feature to find the Chipotle nearest to you, you have a few ways to get started creating your order. If you want a reminder of Chipotle‘s menu offerings, you click the Food menu button at the bottom of the application. This presents you with clean single-page photos and a short description of Chipotle’s main menu offerings. Granted, because Chipotle is not like say IHOP, with three or four dozen menu offerings, the application is not crammed with too much information. Chipotle‘s main entrĂ©e offerings are presented in 8 pages, in which you slide from page to page with a swipe of your finger.

Read the rest: Chipotle – A Free iPhone Food Ordering App Done Right


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14.12.09

Special Gourmets

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This site is a new guide to restaurants, shops and hotels that cater to people with special dietary needs such as gluten allergies and lactose intolerance. Seach by your dietary needs, by location, by the name of the establishment or by type of service (hotel, restaurant or shop). While I don't have any special dietary needs myself, I can see how this would come in handy for a lot of people. Though they should add vegetarian and vegan-friendly establishments as well.

Check it out: SpecialGourmets.com

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10.12.09

Street Food In Seoul : Video

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3.12.09

GroceryWiz

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Lifehacker has a review up about GroceryWiz: a simple and free way to organize your grocery shopping and keep track of items you purchase regularly. This is awesome, they should add a meal board to organize your weekly meals.
It's easy to forget things grocery shopping once you're bumping elbows with the masses. GroceryWiz is an easy to use, fully customizable webapp that keeps your weekly grocery needs in check.

GroceryWiz is a quick and easy tool for adding grocery items to a virtual and printable list to make your trips to the grocery store easier and more productive. It keeps track of your weekly purchases and saves your lists from week to week to help identify frequent purchases you may have left off before you hit the print button. You can add notes for each ingredient, in case you need a reminder as to why you need it—or what dish it's destined for. The whole thing prints out in an easy to read list that's divided by category to ensure you don't leave something behind, before leaving a certain section of the store.

GroceryWiz Is a Full-Featured, Grocery-List-Making Webapp - Shopping - Lifehacker
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1.12.09

ZOMG! Gourmet Library!

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You know when you're at an online store that isn't a chocolate retailer and your search for "truffle" produces 29 results, you have either died after living a righteous life and found the gates to Heaven, or you're on Gourmetlibrary.com. With sections for cheese compliments and wine pairings, I can't actually be entirely sure I haven't died and gone to Heaven. Can you blog in Heaven?

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1.12.09

Michelin Star for Cheap Dim Sum

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A HOLE-IN-THE-WALL canteen in Hong Kong that offers dishes for less than $1.50 has become the world's cheapest Michelin-starred restaurant.

Tim Ho Wan, which means Add Good Luck, can seat only 20 people in its steamy dining room where battered bamboo baskets of dim sum sell for as little as $1.42.

In other Michelin-ranked restaurants a meal can cost more than $400.

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1.12.09

Dining in Total Darkness

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An account of the dining experience at Opaque in San Francisco:
The room is pitch black. There is absolutely no light in here, not even an emergency exit or the glow of a cell phone. I can't see anything. A slight panic flickers through my mind. For the next three hours, I will have to rely on my other senses to figure everything out.

I'm at Opaque, a fancy restaurant in San Francisco in which patrons dine in perfect darkness. Actually, I don't really know if it's fancy — the staff members are polite and the tablecloth feels expensive, but for all I know the room is a basement dungeon and my steak is green. In addition to offering a tasty five-course prix fixe menu, Opaque forces us to live without our vision for a few hours — most of us rely on the sense of sight heavily during our daily lives, and we don't really know what it's like to not be able to see at thing.

Mocha, our waitress, is legally blind. She has leber congenital amaurosis, a genetic retinal disease that causes her to see giant blotches of blind spots all across her field of vision — she can see basic shapes, but she can't read or drive. Having lived with this all her life, she's a pro at maneuvering through the darkness — once my date for the night, Julio, and I pick our food choices from a menu in a dimly lit lounge, she slips through a curtain and marches through the pitch darkness with my arm on her shoulder, forewarning me of a right turn ahead, then a slight left, until we reach the table.

Read the rest:An evening meal in total darkness at Opaque - Boing Boing
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