Test for Egg Freshness

The Huffington Post details a test to find out how fresh your store-purchased eggs really are.  You simply drop an egg into a glass of water and note its position.

14 January 2016

ATK: How to Cut Steak

America's Test Kitchen ran a test on the fact that how one cuts a steak after cooking affects its tenderness.  This is doubly true for cuts traditionally seen as tough like flank.


The moral of the story:  cut against the grain!

13 August 2015

Coffee Drinks Explained

A chart indicating how 38 coffee drinks are crafted.

7 October 2014

Cubing Watermelon

This video speaks for itself.



31 July 2014

Homemade Ketchup

NPR had a story that I heard last week -- although it appears that it might have actually be produced last year -- on homemade ketchup.  Here is a link to the story at NPR.com.  The story mentioned a Hudson Valley Food blog called LocalKitchenBlog.  Its author, Kaela Porter, helped with recipe advice for a "fruit butter."  (How awesome does that sound btw?)  I think that this sounds like a fun project, so I wanted to make sure to capture it.

29 July 2014

Addition:  Continuing on this topic, I also wanted to link an associated blog by Marisa McClellan, the author on two books on small-batch canning.  It is FoodInJars.com.  Enjoy.

Open Table: Best BBQ

This list of the 30 best BBQ joints in America according to Open Table seems too light on the South.  Perhaps that reflect the demographics of Open Table more than anything else.  Still, as a lover of BBQ, I like having places to try and more options in the Northeast works for me.

21 July 2014

Choosing Inexpensive Wine

The Huffington Post linked a video from Jamie Oliver's Drink Tube today on selecting inexpensive wines.  One of its chief suggests is searching out wines from Spain and Portugal.  The video is only about 3.5 minutes long.



17 July 2014

Cooking Bacon

The Huffington Post posted this video from America's Test Kitchen:




22 April 2014

14 Foods to Buy Organic

The Huffington Post has an article on 14 suggested foods to purchase organic.  Take a look.

20 May 2011

May the Farm Be with You... Always!

A very clever, very funny take on Star Wars: Grocery Store Wars.  Love it!

7 January 2011

Is Organic Better?

The Huffington Post has a nice little piece on the question of whether food specifically noted as being organic is always better than an alternative. This does a nice job, in an introductory fashion, of detailing why that isn't always -- or even often -- true.

16 May 2009

King Corn

My wife and I watched a documentary last night, King Corn, that deals with the dominance of corn in the modern American diet... and the detrimental effects of this on our society. (Both the health and economic effects are covered.) This movie doesn't explain the situation as well as do many books, but if you want a good overview in 90 minutes, I recommend this.

16 June 2008