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kottke.org posts about food

The Hacker’s Diet: how to lose weight and hair through stress and poor nutrition.

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Photos of the 28-course tasting menu at chef Grant Achatz’s Alinea.

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Frank Bruni on avant guard cuisine (also called molecular gastronomy).

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The Modern, the fancy restaurant at the MoMA, gets two stars from the NY Times.

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Slideshow of iPod shuffles made out of food. The winner of the contest is made out of banana, apple, and spaghetti. And there’s one made of Spam!

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James Beard Award winners for 2005. Batali is best chef, Per Se is best new restaurant, Danny Meyer is “outstanding restauranteur”.

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Americans are getting more excited about cheese these days.

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“More big chefs are getting paid to pitch everything from shrimp to raisins — and not telling their customers”. “The Seafood institute pays [chef Ty Fredrickson’s restaurant group] $10,000 a year to have the word Alaska in front of its king-crab and halibut dishes.”

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A salt taste test: “From fleur de sel to kosher, which salt is best?”.

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Taste of Chinatown 2005, April 23 from 1-6pm. Fifty restaurants are offering $1.00 tasting plates in Chinatown tomorrow afternoon. Delicious!

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The Fat Duck, a UK restaurant known for its “molecular gastronomy” approach, has nabbed the top spot in Restaurant magazines best of list. El Bulli is #2, French Laundry is 3rd, Per Se is 6th, and several other London spots made the top 20.

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Old (but great) Jeffrey Steingarten on learning how to eat everything.

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Review of L’Atelier du Robuchon in Paris.

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Mark Bittman cooks homemade food in challenging America’s top chefs. Daniel Boulud laughed at the complexity of Bittman’s dish, but gave an 8/10 in taste…and it only took 10 minutes to prepare.

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Salon interviews Ruth Reichl about her new book.

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