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Tag: food
Highline
a fairly nice place for thai food in a cool setting. not too expensive either
Kitchen Gadgets Bonanza
pr0n, indeed
Verrines
Most Americans know what a parfait is, but take that same idea and make the layers avocado salad, crabmeat, and pink grapefruit, and you get an entirely new dish called a verrine
nice. i hope bea can leverage this into a gig at a less hidebound organization.
Wine Color Guide
While judging a wine for taste, ’smelling bouquets’ and spitting wine out can seem a little bit backwards (because, after all, isn’t wine for drinking?), it’s really about appreciating different aromas and tastes without being totally smashed. color can tell us a great deal about a wine before we raise our glasses. Tilt them instead. Pouring a small amount of wine and tilting the glass at (approx.) 45º will spread the wine enough for us to observe a span of its color… and to determine the quality of a wine in the white, blush, or red families… where trees have rings, wines have color.
Not sure how serious that is.. 🙂
Swiss Cheese making
Switzerland is an ideal study tour locale for learning about cheese making and aging. In many of the small villages, there are still family operations of 2 or 3 people that make very high quality specialty cheeses.
mmmm
Sugar Fablab
CandyFab 4000 has constructed caramelized versions of things like a Möbius strip, a screw, a dodecahedron, and a caged ball. Now the duo is planning an open source version of their sweet technology.
Ratatouille
highly recommended. unlikely concept, VERY well animated, funny.
Ratatouille
Ciya Sofrasi
This is an excellent place for vegetarians. Although much of the more familiar Aegean style Turkish cuisine and mezze’s are also vegetarian, the dazzling variety of unusual dishes at Ciya is unique, and the service is exceptional.
Fairway Market blog
Like for instance get a load of these garlic towers we got in from fields near Beaumont de Lomagne, a village north of Toulouse. 12 kilos of superlative French garlic braided to resemble a water spout. Never seen anything like it anywhere else in Europe. You don’t, of course, have to buy the whole damn thing, you can just pull off however much garlic you want. But they’d make a very striking centerpiece for a bit over 100 bucks. I got in, what, 70 of them. Kilo braids of Brittany shallots, too. Also got a load of those fabulous macaroons (coco rochers) from that baker in Flanders. Cello sacks, chewy, the best macaroon of my life.
omg. i am rarely inspired by going grocery shopping, but man that place. omg
Gregor J. Rothfuss 