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Remembering Omaha
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C’mon, Fox…
There is nothing quite like Fair Food, is there?
The Great White Eggplant
The Southern US and Obesity
Top Chef Masters: Ep. 1
Would you look at that? We’re live!
I say Tomäto
Cooking vs. Buying
Chinese Food, the Linux of the culinary world?
In honor of our upcoming first year anniversary, less than one month away, I’d like to welcome you all to the new and improved Food Geekery! When first building the site I was in a rush to get it done and didn’t really focus that much on usability… mostly just content. Unfortunately over time as the site got more and more visitors, I just wasn’t...
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Let me set the scene. I just had a long day at the office, Jess is at home, and to be nice she decided to make dinner so I didn’t have to. I knew it was some sort of meat pie, but hadn’t exactly read the recipe… it was to be a surprise, I was told. I’m about 5 minutes to my door and my cell starts ringing. It’s Jess. The next words...
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Originally this was supposed to be my last post before leaving Omaha. Unfortunately due to a wedding, car trouble and horrible weather, we had little time, ended up leaving a day early and taking three days to drive what usually takes 20 hours. More bad luck struck as I lost my Godfather just days after arriving and left to attend his funeral.
Luckily the dust is settling...
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As most of you have probably done yourselves, I’ve happened to stumble on some good food-related articles/sites in the past few days and thought I’d share! I’ll include an excerpt, but you should really visit the sites for the full articles!
1. In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal @ NY Times
A new study of dogs worldwide, the largest of its kind, suggests a...
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As most of you have probably done yourselves, I’ve happened to stumble on some good food-related articles/sites in the past few days and thought I’d share! I’ll include an excerpt, but you should really visit the sites for the full articles!
1. What’s Inside a Slim Jim @ Wired
It’s real meat, all right. But it ain’t Kobe. The US Department...
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Okay, mini-rant. It looks like my little post about the KFC Double Down has spread everywhere, including to cable news:
That was Fox News… please note that there was no mention of the blog or anything else. Because of this I have now watermarked the photos and hope that no one else decides that they can just swipe images I took and make no mention of it. Really,...
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This weekend Jess and I decided to head on over to the 2009 Iowa State Fair and see all there was to see (and of course eat all there was to eat). It was supposed to storm all day, so we packed umbrellas and the like, but by the time we got there we learned (again) to not trust weathermen. The sky was blue and the sun was out all day (hooray for sunburns!), so it make for...
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This last week I was visiting my favorite indoor farmer’s market and I ran across the guys from Ely Farms dropping off a shipment of peppers and other goodies. As I was talking to them, I noticed they had a large crate of eggplants, but they weren’t purple. They were white. I inquired and they told me that this was an experiment they were trying out and hadn’t...
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I know most of you don’t like to see the “dark side” of food, but if I’m going to blog about food, you can’t just look at the yummy pictures without seeing a bit of the underbelly. Emily Freeman (a pal of mine with a PhD who is working on an obesity prevention framework for both the US and Canada) has a habit of digging up news stories that shows...
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Last night saw the premiere of Top Chef Masters on Bravo. For those who don’t know, Top Chef Masters is mostly like Top Chef with a few differences:
The chefs are all well-known and great chefs.
Each episode has 4 chefs pitted against each other.
Each episode instead of one person leaving, only one person moves on to the final.
All money won goes to charity.
Everything...
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Amazing, it took forever for me to stop procrastinating, but here she is: Yet another food blog for the already growing pile of them all over the Internet. I’m sure you’re asking yourself, “Self, why do I want to be here? Isn’t there something on TV I could be watching?” Yes, there probably is something on TV, it’s half of the reason...
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I’m always one to help out someone in need and this week I finished a new website for Tomāto Tomäto, which is a small (but growing) local business.
How fancy!
You can check out my design to the right (or just go to their site). What do you think? Not bad, eh? I also helped them trade in their old calculator and cash register for a Quickbooks POS system by HP. ...
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Something I’ve always wondered about was whether all the cooking I was doing was really saving me any money, or if it was just a tastier and more expensive alternative. Luckily I was recently shown an article where someone put that question to the test, you can read it here: How cost-effective is it to make homemade pantry staples? For those of you who aren’t...
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Just recently I was watching a TED talk by Jennifer 8. Lee about Chinese food and it’s origins here in America, and one of the parts that really interested me was that she compared Chinese food to Linux. Here’s a quote:
“[W]e think of McDonalds as sort of the ‘Microsoft’ of the culinary dining experiences, we can think of Chinese restaurants,...
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