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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!
James Beard Award winners for 2005. Batali is best chef, Per Se is best new restaurant, Danny Meyer is “outstanding restauranteur”.
“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.”
Taste of Chinatown 2005, April 23 from 1-6pm. Fifty restaurants are offering $1.00 tasting plates in Chinatown tomorrow afternoon. Delicious!
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.
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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