Watched a tiny bit of the Texas / NY game last night. My first baseball of the season. Dave, what's the deal with the weird thick rope necklaces almost every player wears? Some sort of new age energy focuser BS?
Food Labs:
Top 6 cooking myths.
Crowded Wet Mushrooms. A Beautiful Thing:
Turns out the way we are taught to sauté mushrooms is dead wrong. If you want the highest quality mushrooms what you want to do is soak your mushrooms and then crowd the hell out of them in a pan. Let me explain...
Nathan Myhrvold's
Confit myth (and Myhrvold chimes in several times in the comments.)
bad name but menu looked very "foodie"....
Hung Ry homemade noodle etc restaurant, lots of innards, and face parts, bizzy Nolita spot when i passed....
web site no link's http://www.hung-ry.com/ "finest hand pulled organic noodles"
Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.
you might be a foodie if . . . you are rich and you hate america.
this
non-foodie food guide is getting pdx panties in a
twist.
Massively
multiplayer scabble on a *giant* board. A little slow for me, but the board is incredible. Very cool idea.
seriously yummy, but a little pricey, especially on toast with apple butter (thanks j & b for the awesome apple butter!)