The Year in Food 2007
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All who proclaimed the small plates trend dead, for shame! Restaurants are finding that the flexibility and informality of small nibble-centric bar menus appeal to younger diners, and new small plates places keep opening. At San Francisco’s Laïola, appetizers outnumber the main courses by a long shot. In New York, Bar Stuzzichini does it Italian style. And Minneapolis’s Obento-ya is popularizing tiny charcoal-grilled skewers called robata. Los Angeles chef Govind Armstrong has published a cookbook called Small Bites, Big Nights in keeping with the craze. “If I am given the chance to get a bunch of small things without having to commit, I am in heaven,” he told CHOW. “I cook the same way I like to eat. I end up spending more money, and trying more things, but I leave with more tastes and textures than ever before.” What’s good for the customer, therefore, is also good for the owner.









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Great review. Very enlightening. You guys do a fantastic job. Keep up the great work!
Wow, one paragraph of article per click. Four ads (three visa, one text for CNet at the top) per click that I noticed.
Four ads per paragraph. Yuck.
The FDA actually got 34,000 comments in support of the current higher standards of chocolate. The current word is that the FDA has rejected the "safe and suitable substitutions" of vegetable fats portion of GMA proposal as it was based on the false assumption that "consumers had formed no expectations." (34,000 comments proved that we did have some expectations about what was in our food.)
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The FDA actually got 34,000 comments in support of the current higher standards of chocolate. The current word is that the FDA has rejected the "safe and suitable substitutions" of vegetable fats portion of GMA proposal as it was based on the false assumption that "consumers had formed no expectations." (34,000 comments proved that we did have some expectations about what was in our food.)
http://www.typetive.com/candyblog/category/fda-COLLAPSE
Wild salmon are being threatened in a more fundamental way than 'grain barges on the Snake' (a threat that I, a denizen of the Columbia and friend to fisherfolk have never heard mentioned). There are big out-of-state energy speculators who are about to build out heavy industrial sites in the delicate estuaries where the salmoids live. Once the baby salmon have to cope with the initial dredging;...+READ
Wild salmon are being threatened in a more fundamental way than 'grain barges on the Snake' (a threat that I, a denizen of the Columbia and friend to fisherfolk have never heard mentioned). There are big out-of-state energy speculators who are about to build out heavy industrial sites in the delicate estuaries where the salmoids live. Once the baby salmon have to cope with the initial dredging; the heated, treated water being spewed into their nursery; or being sucked into the ballast water for LNG shipments, what happens upriver won't matter one bit.
btw, the day-to-day fight over wild salmon happens in meetings where commercial fishers and sport fishers are set up to fight each other for a dwindling allowed catch while the endangered, protected sea lions eat all the salmon they can get their flippers on and the energy carpetbaggers smile and pay for the right to kill lots of salmon babies. That's where the fish fight is.-COLLAPSE
foodperv! You're really earning your name here!
i like this one VEGAN-sexuals
i guess oral sex is out cause that's eating meat eitherway
Personally, I love foie gras and have no plans to stop serving it on any menu!
For christ's sake. Enough with the sliders!
You know what? Who cares whether he caught the fucking fish or not! As far as I'm concerned he as a Chef is brilliant.