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Attack of the Meme: Top 10 Food Lessons from Sex and the City

Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda taught women many important lessons, as beautifully captured through the tumblr Things I Learned From Sex and the City. But before scrolling through, I never knew how much they talked about food and not just funky tasting spunk.

Top 10 Food Lessons from Sex and the City

10. Avoid Pork in Judeo-Christian Dating.

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9. Martinis and Muscle Relaxants are Your Friends.

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8. Know Your Order at the Drive-Thru.

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7. It’s Hard Work Being a Server.

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6. Food Providers Know You Best.

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Next: Top 5 Sex and the City Food Moments

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by BS

Milkshakes Gone Wild

Chocolate or vanilla? Are you kidding me? Milkshakes are the latest classic comfort fare to get a foodie-fied makeover, and we’re liking what we see. From bacon and bourbon to sweet potatoes and cereal, these creative innovations from chefs and bloggers around the country would make your grandmother’s milkshakes blush.

1. Cereal Milk Milkshake

Blogger Savory Notes took everyone’s favorite end-of-bowl treat — cereal-steeped milk — and turned it into cereal-flavored milkshakes.

Recipe: cereal milk milkshakes

2. Sweet Potato Cashew Milkshake

At Baltimore’s B&O American Brasserie, chef Thomas Dunklin whips up sweet potato ice cream and blends it with candied cashews and bourbon.

Recipe: sweet potato cashew milkshake

3. Dulce de Bacon Milkshake

Does life get any better than dulce de leche and bacon up in your milkshake? We don’t think so. Kudos to Adventures in Cooking for dreaming this up.

Recipe: dulce de bacon milkshake

Artsy Photo Of The Day

That there, ladies and gents, is solid olive oil.

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by BS

Eating on the Edge: Staten Island Sri Lankan

It’s been a hot minute since we’ve posted an update to Eating on the Edge, our travel eating series that takes you to New York’s most far-flung restaurants. With summer in full swing, we’re back to exploring, which for us of course just means eating at new places. Today’s entry comes from NYC’s most shit-upon borough, but one that actually has its fair share of culinary surprises.

Every day, thousands of tourists ride the Staten Island ferry for the cheap-o’s version of a New York harbor tour. After taking in the Statue of Liberty and Brooklyn Bridge views, almost all of them get back on the ferry and go straight back to Manhattan. I have to admit, I’d never thought about getting off and exploring in Staten Island, until I heard about the cluster of Sri Lankan restaurant and shops that have popped up there, just up the hill from the ferry terminal.

On Trend: Popcorn

The Fancy Food Show took place in Washington earlier this month and just like any other food event, influencers gathered to sniff out the top trends. Japanese and booze-inspired fare came out as favorites, as well as cherries and DIY kits. My favorite yield, however, is popcorn.

Manufacturers dress up popcorn in cheese, truffles and as a double-trend, bourbon, to turn this homely snack into a celebrity. But as high as popcorn climbs on the social ladder, it will always remain an innocent treat found on stove tops and in between movie seat cushions.

Happy Hour Kettle Corn, popping at the Cleveland State University Market, makes sure the good ole fashion snack continues to find happy mouths. Here’s a quick video of the making of kettle corn: 8 pounds of corn popped and seasoned in less than 3 minutes.

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by Borracho

ES Haiku

standing in the yard
small hands hold giant slices
juice drips in the grass

I came across this cute little haiku the other day on Garden Path. It was a brief, nostalgic take on the ultimate summer fruit: watermelon. This led to a search of haiku meme and a few minutes looking at various haiku attempts by people all over the web. Most of the haikus I came across were simple and sweet, though I came across some snarky ones on Twitter called #twaiku. One of my favorite examples was by Twitter User MJ:

Black socks being shown/at the 4 seasons cafe/pure class man. Pure class.

These cheeky twaikus were more my style and so I decided to try a few of my own that were a little more appropriate for ES:

Rock that Lobster, On E-Stationery, That Is

Don’t get me wrong. I totally hated those people that would entrench weird backgrounds into their Outlook emails and with every subsequent exchange the weird faux notebook or fluttering butterfly would never go away.

Well, for those that secretly like electronic stationery (and that might secretly include me) I’ve got some pretty cutesy food themed samples. While I don’t suggest everyday embedding, I do think that if you’re sending a recipe via email this could be a fun way to jazz it up. Plus, it could up the ante on those chain letters.

The stationery can be customized with monograms, images and up to three lines of text at $4.99 per theme.

A few favorites from MeebleMail: Rock Lobster (above), Cupcakes (50% of the purchase price to National Foundation for Celiac Awareness), Kitchen, and Strawberry. (And this LBD.)

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