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by 80 Proof

Name That Food!

Last time we played this game, everyone came up a little short, but at least there were some real good guesses.

This meal is probably impossible to guess, although some of you freaks of food knowledge will probably get pretty close. We’ll reveal the full details again on Monday.

by 80 Proof

Here’s Waldo

Congrats to Jeb for amazingly picking out the right person, commenter JoeHoya. Here’s a closer pic of JH, probably taunting Bobby Flay.

Jeb, you win the right to brag in this post only.

by 80 Proof

Where’s Waldo?

Here’s a fun game for the end of the week.

In this picture of Food Network’s recent Throwdown with Bobby Flay featuring Granville Moore’s chef, Teddy Folkman, find the longtime ES commenter, JoeHoya. You’ll remember, JH scooped this story months before air-time.

Winner wins something.

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by Russell Warnick

Pick My Picnic

Hey Foodies-

I write to you, ES readers and the food blogospehre, in need of your help. This weekend I am going to a picnic with some friends here in DC. The irony of this is that despite being British I have never been to a picnic before (I know, crazy, bad, British Britannia). I can only claim to have taken a bag of chips and salsa to Screen on the Green in years past but I don’t think that counts, does it! So here’s the deal, I need your ideas and thoughts as to what I can make for this. My group will consist of about eight people and it’s going to be a potluck kind of thing. I am encouraging my friends to be creative, trying to steer them away from the pre-made of Whole Foods. My own thoughts so far would be focaccia bread with dipping oils, cheeses and salsa, a fruit bowl of some kind and maybe a selection of sandwiches.

The picnic is at the National Cathedral. They are hosting an event this weekend called “Lighting to Unite”; acclaimed Swiss light artist Gerry Hofstetter is lighting up the Cathedral to celebrate its centennial, and the Cathedral is inviting people to bring picnics. The weather looks like it will make for a great evening outdoors.

Please let me know any ideas you might have by writing in the comments section, I promise to tell you all about my picnic in a post next week. Thanks in advance.

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by gansie

Hott Links: JoeHoya

While you may think star-commenter JoeHoya (or affectionately, JH) may simply spend all of his blog reading time with ES, you’d be shockingly mistaken. JH actually writes for the *rival* food blog, DC Foodies. And as I never really read other food blogs (unless he/she comments on our posts and leaves a link to their blog) I have neglected JH’s hard work elsewhere. So, here, JH – our official ES tribute to our first and favorite non-friend commenter. (Actually, you know what that stinker first wrote on our blog – he corrected a misspelling of mine…) Anyway, enjoy our ~~GOP foe~~ boy, JoeHoya.

Investigative Reporter [JoeHoya]

Disgruntled Cheese Plate Eater [JoeHoya]

Exhaustive Restaurant Critiquer [JoeHoya]

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by BS

Bourdain Meats His Match?

Wow. I have to admit this comes as somewhat of a shock. Your Eater of the Year and Tastiest Man-Chef, Anthony Bourdain, is currently getting his ass grilled by a bunch of vegans.

In our second Who Cooked It Better? contest, Bourdian is losing to Hezbollah Tofu by 70 percent to 30 percent. It’s not over yet, but unless Bourdain can pull a Hillary and change up the rules in the middle of the game, that margin is gonna be awfully hard to overcome.

Voting continues through Monday at Midnight.

Check out the original post here

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by BS

There is So Such a Thing as a Free Lunch

Those of you who read Endless Simmer regularly know our goal is to provide you with informative, witty and timely posts about eating and the food world. But you may also know our real goal is to eventually sell out to the man. You see, the only thing that convinces us to get out of bed every morning and post religiously is the hope that this thing will really take off and some rich sap caught up in the Web 2.0 bubble will buy us out for millions. Unrealistic perhaps, but do you have a better idea? And don’t say working.

So when gansie got an email out of the blue from an Outback Steakhouse PR flack, offering us a free gift certificate worth $25 in the hopes that we would blog about their fine dining establishment, you can imagine how excited we were. I mean, it’s not exactly a takeover bid from Rupert Murdoch or Nick Denton, but every corporate whore has to start somewhere, right?

Of course, half of us just wanted to hop in the car immediately and head to the nearest Outback to devour a greasy and delicious bloomin’ onion followed by a scrumptious thunder from down under brownie ice cream treat. But the half of us with more business sense decided to offer it to you, our loyal readers, as a lure to sign up for our brand new Weekly Simmer email update, promising that the 50th person to sign-up would win the gift card.

Apparently, this may not have been the most enticing prize of all time, as it took us almost two weeks to get to lucky number 50 (and there are about 5 times more people than that in my family, so that’s really not saying much).

Anyways, after much cajoling, we found a lucky winner. Congratulations are in order to Sara from Centreville, Virginia, a loyal ES reader who has promised to regale us with stories of the Centreville dining scene and her kids’ love for Jamaican jerk seasoning. Sara, your prize winnings are in the mail.

Stay tuned to ES for more contests (and yes, the prizes will only get better). For those of you who didn’t sign up because you were afraid of winning the gift card, you’re in the clear now:

Photo: Grow a Brain

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