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| Michael Persico for Philadelphia Weekly |
| Xochiltl 'chelada |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- PW throws down a Michelada Field Guide that has us longing for weather that justifies drinking that icy alchemy of beer, tomato juice and lime in the a.m. hours.
-- Obama doesn't actually carry arugula in his pocket to snack on, says Salon. The president's marginally high cholesterol is due to his completely American fondness for cheeseburgers and desserts. Via Grub Street Philly.
-- Brush up your resumes, wannabe critics. Joy Manning is stepping down as restaurant reviewer for Philly Mag and she's announced her new, totally cool job on her blog Oyster Evangelist.
-- Tiffin etc. will add a few South Indian dishes to their menu this Friday, notes The Insider. We'd like a medu vada for lunch - crispy lentil doughnuts with coconut chutney and sambar.
-- Design firm Jellio turns sweet childhood memories into furniture. Think candy-button benches, cupcake seats and a brand-new Candelier made from 5,000 hand-strung acrylic Gummi bears. Via Serious Eats.
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| McDonald's via Serious Eats |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- McDonald's Shamrock Shake is BACK. Serious Eats takes the green meanie for a reviewing spin.
-- Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione will one of four brewers creating house beers for a rooftop restaurant in Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich's upcoming Manhattan uber-food complex, Eataly. Grub Street Philly has the details on the Best News Ever for NYC hopheads.
-- Tasting Table pimps Food in the Louvre, an art book far more delicious than the typical tome. "The museum's head chef, Yves Pinard, and Michelin-starred chef Paul Bocuse step out of the kitchen to lead us through a culinary-based art history lesson, dissecting the museum's endless collection of still lifes and grand feasts."
--If you haven't checked out Doughgirl yet, stop by and drool over her gorgeous pictures and appealing recipes, like this walnut shortbread loveliness.
-- The Insider posts the winners of last night's Philly Cooks! event hosted by Philly Mag. Click over to see who had the baddest display, the most appetizing appetizer and who won $1,000 for their Dish of the Year.
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| Photo courtesy McDonald's via Slashfood |
| This much actual food hasn't appeared in Mickey D's since the fifties. |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- McDonald's and three Olympian friends debuted two "Real Fruit Smoothies" in Strawberry Banana and Wild Berry in Vancouver this month. Slashfood has the deets on when the frozen treats will appear in the U.S.
-- Philadelphia was slapped on its wind-chilled cheeks this past week with record temps and snowfall. Joy Manning of Serious Eats and Oyster Evangelist reveals her eating survival guide.
-- Mark Bittman of NY Times takes us step by step through a simple dish with a high-maintenance reputation, aka polenta, for another versatile meal idea that helps combat the effects of tundra-like weather.
-- Martha Stewart Sirius XM radio goes pornographic with new show hosts Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert, says Grub Street New York. Warning to milquetoast Martha fans: âTurn and Burnâ may evoke Howard Stern.
-- Speaking of food porn, an orgy may commence involving Foobooz, Phoodie.info and Grub Street Philly over thoughts of Ann Suk Miller's Korean tacos at Meritage.
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| Anheuser-Busch, via SlashFood |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- Anheuser-Busch will release the ultra-low calorie Select 55 just in time for the year's biggest, most bloated football game next Sunday. Slashfood passes on "the world's lightest beer", banking the 55 calories towards a future visit to Grant Achatz's upcoming molecular cocktail bar.
-- San Francisco Chronicle critic Michael Bauer spends a long weekend in Philadelphia and finds things he wishes he could plunk down in his hometown -- namely Zahav, James, AmÃs and John's Roast Pork, among others.
-- As of Feb. 1, Philadelphia is requiring calorie counts to be posted on the menus of chain restaurants with more than 15 locations. Inquirer staff writer Don Sapatkin illuminates the fine print, while Philly.com commentors share completely logical concerns about the "nanny state" controlling our diets.
-- Serious Eats answers the age-old question, How do I wrap this cheese for maximum happiness and minimal mold? Check out their detailed guide on wrapping cheese in wax paper, the science behind leaving the plastic baggie unsealed and why blue cheeses should be stored separate from other, more innocent fromages.
-- The Insider reports that just-opened, gluten-free, vegan bakery Sweet Freedom took a star turn over the weekend, fielding and hand-delivering an order to Alicia Silverstone. The vegan actress is treading the boards in the play Time Stands Still in Manhattan.
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| MTV.com |
| Vinny and The Situation see about dinner |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
� Food & Wine documents The (cooking) Situation on MTV's Jersey Shore, where castmates turn out their best quotes yet. First vet-tech Snooki claims she can't eat lobsters, "cause they're alive when you kill them," then The Situation issues an ultimatum to those who don't care to wash dishes: "From now on you are excluded from dinner then. You are excluded from surf and turf night. You are excluded from ravioli night. You are excluded from chicken cutlet night." (Via Grub Street Philly)
� One multi-level Old City nightclub for sale. Historic locale, gravity-flush toilets, original artwork, early '90s grime, limited liquor license included. Can't guess? Just ask KleInsider. He knows all.
� Madame Fromage shares her personal favorite cheese accompaniments, from Carr's oaty whole wheat crackers to Fishtown micro-bakery Baked's bacon caramels.
� Awareness of celiac disease and interest in gluten-free cooking is at the groundswell state; we predict this year will be gluten-free's coming-out party. Michael Savett at Gluten-Free Philly has a copy of Triumph's Essential Gluten-Free Grocery Guide to give away to one commenter.
� Corporate concierge Ken Alan shares his Little Black Book of below-the-radar restaurants worth a visit on The Restaurant Club.
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| Michael Persico for Philadelphia Weekly |
| Fond feelings for the Village Whiskey burger abound this year |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- Adam Erace crowns the PW's 10 Best Dishes of 2009 and provides a scathing quiz on the five worst, in multiple-choice format.
-- Foobooz lists places to eat and drink even more on New Year's Day, including who is serving bacon-topped bloody marys.� Our livers are cringing in anticipation.
-- The last days of the year are OpinioNation, and Collin Flatt of Phoodie.info isn't about to keep his to himself.� The 2009 Phoodies are posted; laurels have been placed on the brows of a few multiple-year winners.
-- Planning on heading to a fixed-price, open-bar New Year's Eve party?� KleInsider rains all over your sodden parade with the news that open bars (not at catered events) are illegal in our fair Commonwealth.� Read the Title 40 regulations and hide the bongs while you're at it.
-- Craig LaBan runs down The Year in Bells in the Inquirer, adding a few ringers here and there to deserving spots (M�m�, Snackbar) and ripping their sole bell away from the ever-hangdog Del Frisco's.
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| Five Spice Duck |
| C is for Cayenne Cookie |
Every Wednesday Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- Whither thou, Five Spice Duck?� Oh, there you are.� Back from an interminably long hiatus (Labor Day weekend dinner post! Sheesh!), our favorite sporadic blogger hits us with a recipe for Dark Chocolate and Cayenne Pepper Cookies. Wooo-eee!
-- What do you call a scandal-ridden, sweetheart-deal-funded, infant-corrupting, totally hideous Wine-O-Matic dispensing machine? We don't know, and you won't be finding out in Philadelphia supermarkets, either.� Grub Street Philly explains.
-- Foobooz polled us gluttonous, functioning-alcoholic-types-around town earlier this year in the service of a little annual list called Top 50 Bars; thus the comment wars began.� One disgruntled Belgian bar owner has recently fired over his bow with a missive to Art Etchells that begins like this: "Not sure your list really matters anyway BUT...".� It gets juicer than a Christmas pomegranate here.
-- This didn't even blip the radar screen and it totally should have: East Passyunk is getting a craft beer bottle shop in early February, from beer geek fantasy-babes Gena Montebello and Michele Aquino. Adam at Blogalicious has more.
-- For the absolute procrastinators: The Restaurant Club has a last-minute foodie gift guide that you can get done today. Leave now.
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| HughE Dillon at Philly Chit Chat |
| Pretty things at Philly Cupcake |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
--Snaps man HughE Dillon visited Philly Cupcake just before they opened for business to share rainbow-hued shots of tiny cakes, the $10,000 chandelier and Isabella the be-frocked mannequin in the front window, all on Philly Chit Chat.
--Kleinsider has the menu for Zavino, upcoming at 13th & Sansom; he approves, deeming it "a brilliantly tight selection of easy-on-the-budget antipasti, a few hot dishes, and pizzas -- all befitting the snug space."
-- UWISHUNU solves your last-minute holiday shopping/drinking conundrum with details on Johnny Brenda's Holiday Bazaar this Saturday.
-- Neal of Burning Pasta will wear white shoes in winter if he pleases, thank you, and drink Campari all year long.� Reject seasonal restraints with his apertif-ready Eurorail Cocktail with Earl Gray and Grand Marnier.
-- The Illadelph reports that the Friends of Rittenhouse Square are looking for ways to monetize the city's swankest green space; first thing that they're thinking?� Permanent concessions.
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| Phoodie.info |
| John "Chainsaw" Taus, rising star |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- Collin Flatt of Phoodie.info spends a few hours with John "Chainsaw" Taus, exec chef at the recently three-belled Snackbar. Find out from whence that tough nickname comes, where to find the best and possibly illegal kimchi and which common breakfast cereal terrifies him, all in Flatt's piece.
-- Messy and Picky re-create Southwark's "single, huge, 9" slab of delicious belly fat", otherwise known as smoked-and-barbecued pork belly with baked beans, wilted collards and Birchrun Hills Blue cheese sauce -- with Ray's Seitan.� They are also interested in vegan-izing the blue cheese sauce, so if you have any hints, get at 'em.
-- Ashley Primis profiles the next generation of corner store, pointing up the gourmet treats and staple items at Good Food Market and Green Aisle Grocery in The Restaurant Club.
-- That precocious� Foodie At Fifteen evangelizes home-cooked holiday gifts in his school paper, even sharing his recipe for mid-rare blondies with his Lower Merion mates.
-- If you haven't yet sniffed out Madame Fromage, get over to Tenaya's blog to� learn how to host a Raclette party in true Swiss style or properly appreciate some California Purple Haze, by the makers of the legendary Humboldt Fog.
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| Fries With That Shake |
| Nacho crawlers went for La Lupe's spicy pork version |
Every Wednesday, Meal Ticket pokes around the food blog world to see what's simmering.
-- In case you were wondering how the Saturday's Nacho Crawl went, Fries With That Shake has a detailed recap of the experience.
-- The Restaurant Club travels over the river (White Dog) and through the woods (Savona)� to guide you through the many varieties of hot booze vying to warm you up this winter.
-- The Insider runs down what's happening on the booming corner of 13th and Sansom... we're looking at a pan-Asian concept, a Medi restau-bar, a pizza/wine bar and then just Bar. I have a hangover already.
-- The Illadelph turns their deconstruction laser on the Garces-Starr rivalry, now coming to a head with real estate and Mexico City in the mix.� Read the intoxicatingly fun conjecture here.
-- Serious Eats launches their series to answer every peanut-related question you ever wanted to ask, but your tongue was stuck to the roof of your mouth and you just couldn't do it physically.
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