The AJC’s Meredith Ford Goldman gives Nikolai’s Roof an affectionate 3 star review. I’ve never eaten at this Atlanta dinosaur, but from this piece it seems worth the visit, and for more than the kitsch factor.
On the Atlantic’s food site, Carol Ann Sayle asks whether small farms can feed the world.
In the New York Times, John T. Edge writes about the origins of and American devotion to Sriracha, the chili sauce known to many as “rooster sauce”.
After our coffee panel of a few weeks back, Jennifer Zyman and I were discussing what other blind-tasting fun we could have. Absinthe sounded like a blast, but the idea got put on the back burner for the time being. Doh! It seems the New York Times has beaten us to it – here they taste 20 absinthes, compare contrast and offer helpful hints on how to imbibe.
Eat Me Daily posts an awesome video which will both warm your heart and teach you how to make tabbouleh.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel writes on the Atlantic’s food site about how the internet age could be responsible for ruining eating – if every meal is blogged, do we lose the pleasure? This is kind of interesting, but is the same hand-wringing we’ve been seeing for years: does the internet make privacy obsolete? Did I ruin my relationship by blogging about it? And on and on….
Catharine Price writes about what to do with winter vegetables on Slate. This article may be a help to many people, but I have to say – really? Has the woman heard the term “soup”? And she doesn’t know what to do with parsley? I do love Mark Bittman’s response to her parsley dilemma, although his declaration that kiwis aren’t that good is horrifying. Makes me think he hasn’t had fresh ones off a vine – tiny, sweet/tart home-grown kiwis are perhaps the best thing in the entire universe. So there.
Derek Brown writes a history of the American mixologist on the Atlantic’s food site.
The New York Times gets in on the Varasano’s conniption of pizza joy.
If you haven’t already, you should check out the Atlantic’s new food website. I am an instant fan.
