Back-to-School Meals, Chefs' Talk, Game and Pickling

Gearing Up for Back-to-School ~
Ten Stylish Lunch Boxes for Kids

"Every year parents face the daunting task of back-to-school shopping and finding the right lunch kit"

We know how picky kids can be about their school meals, starting with their lunch boxes ...
Read more: Back-to-School Recipes and Tips; epicurious.com

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"Without labor nothing prospers." ~Sophocles (quotegarden.com)

Delightfully yours, Food Meditations

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Chefs' talk
~ ‘The first thing I cooked was spaghetti with tomato and basil. I think my main aim was to impress girls’ ...
Read more: FT Foodies: Antonio Carluccio; ft.com

~ Jade Wright meets the chef who’s guided HOST into Michelin and the Good Food Guide; liverpooldailypost.co.uk
~ New Nordic Cuisine Draws Disciples; nytimes.com
~ Game for anything: Chefs are finding wonderful new ways with woodcock, grouse, partridge and pheasant; independent.co.uk

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Pantry notes
~ The Sweet and Sour of Pickling; blogs.smithsonianmag.com
~ Greens of the sea; ft.com

~ How to preserve the sweet taste of summer; salon.com
~ Pennsylvania mill works to develop flour with a taste of history; washingtonpost.com
~ Comfort Food Recipes - Fennel Salad Recipe; cosmopolitan.com

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Meals for kids
~ Think outside the box: Top cooks reveal how to perk up your children's packed lunches; independent.co.uk
~ Here’s Eating Lunch With You, Kid - One Sandwich, Two Treatments; nytimes.com

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Food for pets
~ Feeding Vegan Dogs (with recipes!); care2.com

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Gluten-Free notes
~ A Little Raskin: Gluten for Punishment; seattleweekly.com

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Healthy corner
~ Vitamin-Packed Seafood Dinners -- In 15 Minutes Or Less; huffingtonpost.com

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Appetibilis
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Americas Open Kitchen, Traveler's Tale, Lactic Sharpness, Canine Customers

Open kitchen ~
The Rise of an American Cuisine

"In Curarrehue, it's usually raining. The misty green town in southern Chile is surrounded on all sides by ancient forests"

As chefs around the world try to emerge from Europe's shadow ... Chile is offering one model of what that revolution might look like...
Read more: The Rise of an American Cuisine; theatlantic.com

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“The language of the body is the key that can unlock the soul.” ~Konstantin Stanislavsky (thinkexist.com)

delightfully yours, Food Meditations

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Traveler's Tale
Novelist J. Courtney Sullivan recalls a massive meal in the south of France that intimidated—then inspired...
Read more: An Insane Feast in France; wsj.com

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Lactic sharpness
Sharpen up with crème fraîche or cream cheese, and give your summer supper a refreshing kick...
Read more: Nigel Slater's herring and passion fruit recipes; guardian.co.uk

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Inspired entertaining
Nothing exemplifies the splendors of summer more than sharing a mouthwatering meal with family and friends outdoors...
Read more: Gifts From The Sea and River; sunvalleymag.com

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Famous freeze
Test yourself this Summer and see if it is the icon or the flavour that sways your taste buds to make a tasty decision...
Read more: Iconic Ice Cream. Who will you lick? swide.com

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Vanning basics
Canning isn't just about preserving the harvest, it's about socializing, too...
Read more: Party in a Can: Canning Parties Combine Good Food with Good Fun; rodale.com

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Unusual menu
A pub in Swaledale now has a menu for its canine customers. Will the idea catch on?...
Read more: The pub that's proud to serve up dogs' dinners; guardian.co.uk

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No Comment!
~ Woman Could Be Jailed For Vegetable Garden; huffingtonpost.com

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Gluten Free Notes
~ Episode 10: Gluten free; abc.net.au

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Healthy corner
~ The Hottest (Wackiest) Diets: What Works? more.com
~ Do we all have computer neck? thisislondon.co.uk

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Food for thought
~ 5 Essential Reads on Food Politics; theatlantic.com

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Appetibilis Image by ockstyle via Flickr
~ 20 Summery Sandwich Recipes; saveur.com
~ Shaved Fennel Salad Recipe; 101cookbooks.com
~ Fiery Cajun Shrimp; nycityeats.com
~ Appreciation: Peach Barbecue Sauce; vanillagarlic.com
~ Purple Potato Bug Cakelets and Bug Juice; boulderlocavore.blogspot.com

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Peach Sauce

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On Food Writing, Lotus Root and Fava Beans. (Meet Some Sexy Chef!)

Sustainable food ~
Will the real food movement please stand up?

"Farmer Bob Comis recently suggested that the food movement is suffering from "multiple personality disorder.""

...bringing affordable, organic food to all as part of a broader commitment to social justice...
Read more: Will the real food movement please stand up? grist.org

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“If you want to be happy, be.” ~Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (thinkexist.com)

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Brevity is cool
Food columnist Jeff Houck advises food writer hopefuls like 22-year-old Adrienne Robles to consider WWJD: What Would (the legendary) James Beard do?...
Read more: So you want to be a food writer? tbo.com

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Power ingredient
~ Fava beans are flooding the markets these days, but...
Read more: Fava beans: Roasting pods simplifies preparation; sfgate.com

~ Lotus root cooking; sfgate.com

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Top 10 list
Narrowing down 30 names to 10, after the jump, see who made the list again, and find out who, surprisingly, is our (possibly not-so-hot) hottest man of 2011...
Read more: Sexy Chefs: 10 Hottest Men in the Food Industry 2011; slashfood.com

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Esoteric delicacy
Asking Vinny Dotolo and Jon Shook, chef-owners of West Hollywood’s Animal and the new Son of a Gun, “What pantry item are you most passionate about?”...
Read more: Grainy Mustard; latimesmagazine.com

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Holiday pantry
~ Considering a fiesta of your own? We've got margaritas...
Read more: Cinco de Mayo: 23 recipes from the L.A. Times Test Kitchen; latimes.com

~ Cinco de Mayo sopes an easy celebratory dish; sfgate.com

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Taste makers
Earliest food memory, store-cupboard essentials, favourite cookbook...
Read more: Angela Hartnett: 'It's not an essential, but I always have Nutella in the fridge';

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Gluten-Free notes
~ How to Make Gluten-Free Dog Food; blogher.com
~ Focus On Gluten Free Food At The Food Banks and Celiac Awareness; blogs.pnwlocalnews.com
~ Gluten Intolerance: Against the Grain; m.webmd.com

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Healthy corner
~ Hugh's recipes turn sour as battery rabbit farms return; independent.co.uk
~ WHO takes on chronic disease; washingtonpost.com

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Appetibilis
~ Coconut Curry Mussels Recipe; simplyrecipes.com
~ Sweet Potato & Sage Gnocchi; madaboutmacarons.com
Gluten Free Peanut Butter Chocolate Cookies; foodpractice.com
~ Cherry Tomato and Tofu Salad; kitchenmeditation.blogspot.com
~ Time for dinner; wildeinthekitchen.blogspot.com

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A Good Broth, Boeuf Bourguignon and the Sea Vacuum Cleaner

Would you eat it? ~
Ready to acquire a taste for the 'vacuum cleaners of the sea'?

"The species being investigated, Holothuria forskali, grows up to 10 inches long and is native to the British Isles"

It breathes through its anus, can liquefy its body and acts as the waste collectors of the seabed...
Read more: Ready to acquire a taste for the 'vacuum cleaners of the sea'?; independent.co.uk

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"One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (quotegarden.com)

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What's for supper?
La gallina vecchia fa un buon brodo: ‘An old chicken makes a good broth' is one of Italy's time-tested aphorisms...
Read more: 'Take one old chicken . . .'; theflorentine.net

~ Nigel Slater's classic boeuf bourguignon recipe; guardian.co.uk
~ Soups & Sandwiches; southernliving.com

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Travel bites
Andrew Zimmern Finds The Most Bizarre Food Ever, And The Limit Of His Appetite...
Read more: Snip Snip... Yum?; huffingtonpost.com

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Pantry notes
Mark Lobel, butcher and co-owner of Lobel's in New York City, shares his secrets for using ground beef in every day recipes...
Read more: A Food Lover's Guide to Ground Beef; rachaelraymag.com

~ Lotus Root; nymag.com
~ Chefs Taste Test Edible "Marital Aids" for Valentine's Day; blogs.houstonpress.com

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Pet friendly
~ Meat-Me-in-the-Backyard Hash Recipe; rachaelraymag.com

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Food in the news
~ The Nickel Pincher: How to Freeze and Store Food without Using Plastic; rodale.com
~ 7 Key Food Trends for 2011: Make Them Work for a Healthier You; rodale.com

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Healthy corner
~ MD-Approved Home Remedies; more.com
~ Bite Size Gourmet: Testing Baby Food Cookbooks; publishersweekly.com

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Appetibilis
~ Salmon of Knowledge; fivestarfoodie.com
~ Golden Brussels Sprouts; kitchenkonfidence.com
~ Daring Cooks : Eggs Benedict; iwantthepie.wordpress.com
~ Recipe: General Tso's Tofu Sub; nytimes.com
~ Make It Better Monday - Salmon Tacos with Avocado Cream; motherrimmy.com

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Lotus Root Sandwiches

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5 Post-Holidays Detox, 11 Food Resolutions and 12 Months in Fast Food

On the plates ~
Agricultural Predictions for 2011 ~

Over the past few weeks, food blogs have been doling out predictions of what trends were big this year

Sharing a drier, but arguably more important, look at upcoming food and agriculture trends...
Read more: Agricultural Predictions for 2011; seriouseats.com

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"Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so." ~Stanley Crawford (quotegarden.com)

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Broaden your horizons
A lot of people make resolutions to kick off a new year. Even if you don't always succeed at them...
Read more: 11 Food Resolutions for You in 2011; huffingtonpost.com

~ 5 Healthy Ways to Post-Holiday Detox; shine.yahoo.com
~ Mediterranean Diet Recipes; glutenfree.todowithhealth.info

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Fast food world
2010 was quite a year for fast food. It's hard to believe that just twelve months ago...
Read more: The Year In Fast Food; seriouseats.com

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Advertising
Dangerous campaign dares you to take a bite. Not for the faint-hearted...
Read more: Cocky Cholesterol Cuisine Ads; trendhunter.com

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Travel bites
~ Steak in Italy is prepared very simply and it's always served rare...
Read more: Italian Grilled Steak; saveur.com

~ Saveur 100: Sang Yoon's XO Sauce; saveur.com

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Healthy corner
~ 35 Must-Follow Food Allergy Twitter Accounts; calorielab.com
~ Green Man 365 Project: Three months in and still haven't eaten dirt; canada.com
~ Two cookbooks give winter vegetables a starring role; ethicurean.com

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Appetibilis
~ Carob Chip Pumpkin Dog Treat/Biscuit Recipe; doggydessertchef.com
~ Chocolate Nut Bread; deedeesdelights.blogspot.com
~ Lemon-Lime Cupcakes with Lemon-Lime Mascarpone Frosting; cakeduchess.com
~ Meatless Monday Guest Post: New Year and Split Pea Stew; theblissfulchef.com
~ Spinach, Mushroom & Bacon Frittata; idontcookbutmyboyfrienddoes.blogspot.com

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Grilled Marinated Steak





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