Bracket Busted? Not to worry. You can still get in on So Good’s Meat Madness tourney (which has been having a bit of a food blog feud of its own).
After yesterday’s lamb vs. ground beef nailbiter, today it’s on to the fowl region, where duck is working on an upset of #2 seed turkey.
I can’t say I’ve had a chance to catch Showtime’s series The Tudors yet, but I can certainly get behind any show that advertises its season premiere with recipes for mulled wine and rosemary popovers. Somebody’s got our number! Plus, their sans-clothing subway ads are a welcome relief from snacklish.
The Tudors premieres this Sunday at 9pm – click on the banner to your right for premiere party food tips.
HuffPost hosted this article by Ed and Deb Shapiro about how waitresses deal with rude people (and how the rest of us deal with them too). What it brought up for me was the fact that I know a lot of people who consider themselves foodies who tend to treat waitresses like debt bondage workers or like the pimple on their lover’s back (you know, to poke and poke and pinch and poke some more until something awful squirts out), rather than as the person who is working her/his fucking ass off for a low wage job.
I’m mortified when people treat waitstaff in a less than respectful way. I think I might be extra sensitive to it because one of my family members once made a waitress cry and almost got us kicked out of the restaurant. That’s not to say that there aren’t bad waiters and tricky situations that arise from bad service or kitchen mishaps. But really I try my utmost to show my appreciation to waitstaff and I try not to be a pain in the ass.
But what about all you ESers? Are there some rules of thumb we should all follow?
1. Should you get chatty with a chatty waiter?
2. How demanding can you be of a waiter during lunch rush or the dinner hour?
3. Is it okay to send dishes back? If so, when?
4. Is it okay to tip less than 10% for poor service?
5. What kind of patron behavior mortifies you?
(Photo: El Mundo del Cappytan)
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Well, it was bound to happen. Everyone and their grandmother now has a food blog, and the market is starting to look a little crowded. Most of us play nice with each other, but what happens when competing food blogs start to look a little too similar? Food blog feuds!
We love us a good blog war, but who to side with? As always, ES is here to be your judge and jury.
First Up: The Scanwich War. Undoubtedly, many of you have recently come across Scanwiches, the latest hot food blog making a viral jaunt around the Interwebs. Jon Chonko, the NYC-based blogger behind Scanwiches, spends his workdays scanning cross-sections of his meals, and his drool-worthy shots of Reubens and Cubans are enough to make anyone leave for lunch at 10:15. The simple concept has gotten Scanwiches a whole blogload of praise. Serious Eats calls it delicious, Gizmodo proclaims Chonko a “genius”, and even our boy Andrew Sullivan has taken note. In short, the Scanwiches dude seems to be well on his way to a blog-to-book deal.
But there’s a slight problem with Scanwiches, and it isn’t just mayo stains on the company scanner. Turns out it’s not the most original idea ever. Another hungry NYC-er, Justin Bilicki, has been posting his own lunch shots on a site called Scanwich since 2007. Bilicki, somewhat understandably, is hopping mad about all the buzz for Scanwiches, and has updated his site to reflect its status as “The Original,” along with a few choice words for his new nemesis:
Read More›When you stumble upon an article that combines two of the things you respect more than life, you have to share. Read this recent piece on Women winemakers and check out the slideshow:
Aren’t all foodies (and winos) just chemistry geeks deep down?
[Reuters]
As if you couldn’t already tell, I seriously love cooking. It’s my favorite part of the day. Unfortunately, I have to go to work and am not able to cook all of my meals. That doesn’t mean, however, I won’t spend 15 minutes in the kitchen composing a salad, including a dressing, while in the office kitchen. But sometimes I just can’t get my act together and bring something to work.
In which case, I’ve found a new lunch spot: Pret A Manger. It’s a transplant, mostly to-go chain, from the UK. The sandwiches, salads and wraps are pre-made, but that doesn’t mean they should be disrespected. Plus, there is avocado in, like, everything.
Healthful Eats on the Move: Pret a Manger in D.C. [Express]
Photo: Pret
Wow. We knew Americans were having trouble affording their truffles and their foie gras, but we had no idea things had gotten this bad.
An unemployed Miami resident is being charged with misdemenor animal cruelty for picking a dead horse up off the side of the road and taking it home for dinner:
It was the day before Thanksgiving, and I had eaten horse years before. It’s high in fiber. Whenever you’re low in fiber, just eat a piece of horse. My dad used to take me to buy it at local farms (my father was from Argentina, my mother’s from Cuba). The farmers kill it right there or keep it in the fridges. You got to know somebody, for them to come out with the horse meat. Not just anybody can go in and say, ‘Hey, can I have some horse meat?’
He’s being charged under suspicion of killing the horse, but claims all he did was try to eat it. Gotta love this tease of an ending:
I don’t think picking up a horse in four pieces should be a crime. Yeah, I do admit that I should’ve found a better place to put the horse remains. I’ve had a couple of misdemeanors before, but never animal cruelty or anything like that. You know, I have a cat.
Is that have a cat or had?
[Miami New Times]
