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John Mayer is Douchiest Food Blogger Ever

Normally we here at endless simmer like to support our fellow food bloggers – we’d much rather feud with nerdier bloggers and/or stalk pedigreed reporters. But the latest guy to join the food blogging circle is just a little too much to take. “Your Body is a Wonderland” singer John Mayer already covers plenty of pressing topics on his surprisingly addictive blog, including a recent in-depth analysis of O.J.’s watch and a loving note to the 63 PEOPLE ARRESTED AT HIS LAST CONCERT (no, it’s still not illegal to listen to John Mayer, there were just a lot of boozed up 12-year-old girls at his show).

Now, Mayer has begun sharing photos of his meals, and he claims it to be his most successful blogging experiment yet. Apparently, the public is intensely hungry to know what John had for dinner last night and the night before that. He’s not cooking, and he doesn’t even tell us where these tasty treats are from, just shows us what he eats on a daily basis. The best part is, these valuable photos have been watermarked, with rights reserved, to prevent their reproduction. Screw that. If this blog is gonna go down, what better way to do it than because of illicit reproduction of John Mayer’s duck shepherd’s pie?

More celeb eating news on Endless Simmer…

Paris vs. Sofia Champagne in a Can Smackdown

Ryan Gosling Melting Fewer Hearts, More Kraft Singles

Mario Batali Doing Gwyneth?

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TV Chef News: Paula Deen Hot as a Deep Fried Butter Ball

– Everyone’s favorite butter monster, Paula Deen, was in D.C. this weekend for the national lard convention or something like that. Unfortunately, she didn’t make any deep-fried lasagna, but spent most of her time making out with ~~a disturbingly fat Sean Connery~~ oh nevermind that’s her husband. Awkward remarks were made about sticking his bread in her oven. [Serious Eats]

– Dave from Top Chef Season One is opening a restaurant in New York, and the menu includes his black truffle mac n’ cheese from the show. No reports yet on how much this made him cry. [Eater]

– Bourdian can’t stop picking on Ray-Ray. [Time]

Photo: View Images

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by BS

National Gluttony Day: T Minus Twenty

Now that ~~Halloween~~ National Slut Day is over, we can start officially planning for the biggest foodie celebration of the year: National Gluttony Day, a.k.a. Thanksgiving. Some news and views to get the ball rolling:

– The hard-hitting investigators over at Cook’s Illustrated have announced that the best-tasting turkey on the market is (gasp!) frozen. [Epi Log]

– Red Alert! Our global gluttony dominance may be under threat from the rising power of South Africa. A group of Pretoria bakers recently smashed the world record for largest pumpkin pie ever, creating a 1.5-ton monstrosity that bested the record set by Ohioan farmers two years ago. [Slashfood]

– Personally, I’ve always been a believer in the “it doesn’t get any better than stovetop” school of stuffing thought. But if you’re more inclined to drop some fancy, BA has some recipes for prosciuttoing, shrooming, and sageing up your stuffing. [Bon Appetite]

Cartoon: Humor Matters

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Meryl Streep – Done With Fashion, On to Cooking

Editors Note: ES gives credit to Britannia for uncovering this bit of food inspired entertainment news. Here is his take on this upcoming book turned movie.

That little blog that turned into a best selling book, Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen is being worked into a movie, yes, you read that right. Variety is reporting that Meryl Streep will take on the role of Julia Child in the upcoming movie Julie & Julia, while Amy Adams will play the frustrated secretary, Julie.

I have to say, being English I don’t know much about this culinary queen, my knowledge of the older and wiser television chef’s leads me to Two Fat Ladies and Delia Smith. However, if Meryl Streep (re: gay icon) is involved then every gay on the other side of the pond soon will know the wonders of Ms. Child. Food and Meryl, what more could one want!

If this is as campy as I hope it will be, then pass me a bottle of gin and a movie ticket.
Thank you, thank you!

Do you think you could do it… 524 recipes in 365 days? I personally think she’s mad.

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by BS

Hott Links: Eating and Cheating

– Ryan Gosling melting fewer hearts, more Kraft Singles [Best Week Ever]

– Ed. Note: Despite our appetite for celebrity chef controversies, we were avoiding giving Jessica Seinfeld any coverage on endless simmer, because, well, she’s not really a chef and she’s definitely not a celebrity. But this video finally pissed me off enough. A recap if you haven’t been following: Jerry Seinfeld’s irrelevant wife wrote a cutesy cookbook on how you can trick your kids into eating vegetables by doing things like sneaking spinach into brownies. Problem is, an author who isn’t married to a famous comedian already wrote a nearly-identical book, submitted it to the same publisher as Seinfeld, had it rejected, and then saw 15 of her recipes end up in Seinfeld’s book. Oops! So what’s Jerry’s move? He goes on Letterman and calls the original author a psycho. Classy. [Video link: Defamer]

– Blah blah blah…new book about chefs…blah blah…Mr. Bourdain is nude with a beef bone and a cigarette…wha?!? [NY Sun, via Eater]

Photo: Slashfilm

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Strangers with Bacon

The Internet may have more sites about bacon than about porn. I thought you all should know.

– The Bacon Show offers “one bacon recipe per day, every day, forever.” Not even kidding – it’s been going strong for three years and just broke the 900 recipe barrier with with bacon-fried quail with onion gravy. You can search by secondary ingredients, from alfalfa to zucchini.

– Bacon Unwrapped is a comprehensive chronicle of adventures in bacon-land. My favorite post is an amazing bacon-y story, the awesomeness of which should be obvious from the phrase: “we all gathered around the vat with our first round of beers at about noon on Saturday and watched the lard begin to melt.”

– You can all start pooling your money together, because the only thing I want for Christmas is one of these.

Photo: Diet Coke with Bacon

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Can You Spot the Clone?

Despite all the concerns about making sure everything we eat is organic and local and free-range, WIRED reports the latest trend in meatpacking is most decidedly not any of those things: cloned meat.

Remember that whole bruhaha about Dolly the cloned sheep and all those other animals crazy scientists from Scotland to Korea started cloning? Well it turns out they weren’t just doing that as a basis to create a Nazi scientist-esque world of human cloning where everyone looks like Brangelina. Apparently, there’s already a lot of money in cloning animals just for the sake of meat production.