Love to cook?
Or just love the idea of cooking?
If you spend hours in the kitchen — or in front of the TV watching Food Network chefs spend hours in theirs, you’ll love this guide to kitchen conversions by graphic designer Shannon Lattin.
No need to break your brain anymore halving or tripling recipes — Shannon’s done it for you!
I’m just gonna use it to check other folk’s work. (You’re welcome.)
Posted in Cooking, Design, Food, Foods, Humor, Life
Tagged chefs, cook, cooking, design, food, Food Network, Foods, graphic design, Humor, infographic, kitchen, kitchen conversions, life, recipes, Shannon Lattin, The Common Cook's How-Many Guide to Kitchen Conversions
I’ve never liked coffee.
But this blend is beary, beary tempting.
It’s been almost a year since The Egg dared to ask:
Why do so many people attempt to photograph the food they are eating?
I argued amateur attempts often make food and drink look — well — unappetizing. Comments in response to my post disagreed.
Point taken.
But I did want to share an example of some exceptional professional food photography…by Lincoln Barbour.
These four strips of bacon on a flat top grill were shot on location at Fuller’s Restaurant for a Portland Monthly feature on the city’s best breakfast.
Look at the color, the lighting, the composition. This is no simple shot of half-eaten eggs and bacon on a plate –
This is art.
That’s all I’m saying.
Posted in Art, Commentary, Design, Food, Humor, Life, Photography
Tagged art, bacon, best breakfast, blog, color, commentary, composition, design, egss and bacon, flat top grill, food, food photography, Fuller's Restaurant, Humor, life, lighting, Lincoln Barbour, photography, Portland, Portland Monthly, Portland Oregon, restaurants, Travel
This blog post is dedicated to today’s Twitter trending topic of the same name:
#3Words
I like the challenge of summing up my thoughts in just three words.
And today it is especially easy…
Full of candy *
* The trick-or-treaters can’t get through the double lock security in my lobby; what am I to do? (And that’s more than three words.)
What are your #3Words?
If you were a bartender, would you use your real name with customers? Or would you maybe use a ‘cool’ nickname like…
Skywalker
I met a bartender this very evening who made that choice…in a hotel bar in Chicago.
He wasn’t 13 years old, which seems more appropriate to me for such a nickname (and perception of what is cool).
No, he was a 13-year old who grew up to be a middle-aged man who thinks a Stars Wars character nickname is still cool at his age.
Which is…interesting.
Of course, he might have named himself after former University of Kentucky basketball great Kenny “Sky” Walker…but I doubt it.
Now, that would be cool.
Posted in Basketball, Commentary, Humor, Life, Movies, Travel
Tagged bartender, basketball, Chicago, commentary, drinks, food, hotel bar, Humor, Kenny Walker, life, nicknames, Skywalker, Sports, Star Wars movie, Travel, University of Kentucky basketball, what is cool
I’m watching 24 in 24 — Sandwich King Jeff Mauro’s new show on Food Network.
(It’s kinda like the $40 a Day series that Rachael Ray did way back when, but with less scratch.)
He’s in Cleveland in tonight’s episode, and he’s eating chili for lunch.
Now I love chili, and today’s dramatic drop in temperatures makes it sound especially good. I don’t have any chili on me, but I am really enjoying watch him eat chicken chili from Palookaville Chili in Cleveland.
But he made a curious claim during the program.
He said chili is usually the “B-film of food.” It’s canned stuff. It goes on hot dogs. It’s not the star.
I love the Sandwich King, but I consider chili to be at the top of the soup chain. At the top of the stew chain. At the top of Rachael Ray’s ‘stoup’ chain (combo soup/stew).
Chili is king. And was king long before Jeff won Food Network Star.
Let’s show it a little respect.
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Tagged $40 a Day, 24 in 24, chili, Cleveland, commentary, entertainment, food, Food Network, Food Network Star, Foods, hot dogs, Humor, Jeff Mauro, life, lunch, no beans about it, Palookaville Chili, Rachael Ray, Sandwich King, soup, stew, stoup, Television, TV, tv episode, tv series
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but I’m not so sure –
I discovered another great restaurant in New York City, and it was the storefront that lured me in.
I walked past Jacob’s Pickles for the first time a couple of weeks ago running errands in my neighborhood. The name caught my eye, then the decor.
Heck, if I could live in the space, I would.
Sunday a friend and I tried our their brunch. Turns out Jacob does a mean biscuits and gravy…and we’re talking spicy sausage gravy.
My cousin Carol would be proud.
The entire menu looks great. We are gonna hit it again at dinnertime and try the fried pickles and other savory items. The bar selection is interesting, too.
See? It pays to be shallow.
Freshdirect.com, my favorite website for ordering groceries in the neighborhood, posted this ‘goodbye to summer’ today on Facebook.
I love the sentiment — the poster’s graphic look and feel, too.
But they can’t honestly be suggesting that my popsicles, fudge bars and toffee crunch bars — all reduced fat and sugar-free, of course — should be packed away with my summer clothes and flip flops….
Not even.
I find popsicles refreshing year round. They are the perfect light dessert — that little taste of sweet that doesn’t linger compared to heavy cakes and pies.
They aren’t seasonal. They’re sensible.
Of course, I feel much the same way about soup — love me some soup any time of year, especially in summer. When the AC is cranked in public buildings, soup is the best way to warm up.
Turning up the thermostat also works.
Let’s give food a chance.
Posted in Commentary, Food, Foods, Humor, Life, Weather
Tagged air conditioning, carryout, commentary, dessert, end of summer, Facebook, fall, flip flops, food, food stereotypes, Foods, fudge bars, Humor, Internet, life, low fat, popsicles, poster, seamless.com, soup, sugar free, summer, summer clothes, takeout, thermostat, toffee crunch bars, weather
When I was a kid, my mom made our favorite meals on our birthdays.
Mine was fried chicken, mashed potatoes and lima beans.
I am thinking of this not because it is my birthday, but because I am hungry. I haven’t had dinner. I barely had time for lunch. And now I am trapped en route from Boston to New York.
No cafe car. No food for purchase. Not even a lousy stick of gum. So I am savoring my memories. And they are pretty tasty right now.
Or that’s what I keep telling myself anyway…
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Tagged birthdays, children, favorite meal, food, fried chicken, Humor, life, lima beansm, mashed potatoes
Wordvana
I learned a new word today…or, I should say, new to me:
HANGRY
As soon as I heard the word in conversation with a friend, I Googled it…and realized it was not just a word, but a phenomenon.
Hangry, simply stated, is that spirit-sucking irritability that results from being hungry. I experienced it today when I had too many errands to run and not enough time to eat.
While I am all-too familiar with the feeling, I had never had the perfect word to describe it.
Until now.
So I am no longer hangry; instead, I’m simply happy. ‘Cause the right word can do that for ya.
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