On May 31, the Food Network will launch a new station for a cooler crowd called the Cooking Channel, according to The New York Times. Programming will be “a little grittier, a little edgier, and a little hipper,” Bruce Siedel, the channel’s senior vice president for programming and production, told The Times. I’m pretty excited about this [...]
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Food News, April 23, 2010: Food Network to Launch the “Cooking Channel”
Posted in Food News, tagged bal arneson, food jammers, food network canada, french food at home, laura calder, spice goddess, the cooking channel on April 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Saveur’s 1st Annual Food Blog Awards
Posted in Food News, tagged david lebovitz, saveur food blog awards, smitten kitchen on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My recipe post for today has been thwarted! The pictures are on my parents’ camera and, although I took the memory card with me, it doesn’t fit in my camera. Luckily, I will be in their area tomorrow morning to download the pictures, so please stop by on Friday to see this week’s recipe. But for [...]
Food News, March 12, 2010: Raw Chocolate Class, Cleveland’s New Farm Stand
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Cleveland, farm stands, malls, raw chocolate on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s Food News, a raw chocolate class in Maryland on March 27th and Cleveland’s new food project in the Galleria mall: Raw Chocolate: You’ve seen how dark chocolate has taken over our candy choices – in last night’s The Mentalist, Simon Baker’s character, Patrick Jane, said he liked “what we’re doing with chocolate [...]
Food News, March 5, 2010: Fresh Food at Walmart?
Posted in Food News, tagged produce, the atlantic, walmart on March 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Can you find organic and local food at your local Walmart? Yes, at least in the Boston and Austin areas, according to the March 2010 The Atlantic. The writer Corby Kummer even holds a ”grocery smackdown,” buying identifical ingredients from Walmart and Whole Foods and illiciting the help of a chef to make two four-course meals. You’ll have to read to find [...]
The Huffington Post’s “The Week of Eating In Challenge”
Posted in Books, Experiments, Food News, tagged cathy erway, the art of eating in, the huffington post, the week of eating in challenge on February 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Do you think you can eat in for an entire week? Even for me, a person who eats most of her meals in, a full week of home-cooked food is a long time. I run out of dinner ideas, or I’m tired of doing dishes, or I just want to eat at a restaurant because I like it. [...]
Genetically Modified Foods: Do We Have to Give Up Soy Too?
Posted in Food News, tagged genetically-modified food, gmo food, institute for responsible technology, non-gmo soy, soy on February 18, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I try to be a responsible, environmental eater, I really do. I eat moderate amounts of fish. I buy local whenever I can and organic sometimes. I have canvas bags for my groceries, and I even remember to bring them with me most of the time. But I read something the other day that made [...]
Food News, February 12, 2010: Valentine’s Day History
Posted in Food News, tagged chocolate, conversation hearts, smithsonian, valentine's day customs on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I had wanted to write a history of Valentine’s Day food this week, but then I realized that so many great stories have already been written. So this is your Valentine’s Day Food News, including a history of conversation hearts, a top 10 list of Valentine’s Day customs, and a chocolate caramel recipe from 1881 that was used [...]
Food News, January 22, 2010: Restaurant Marketing, Dangers of Salt, Roast Your Own Coffee, Meat-Eating Plants
Posted in Food News, tagged coffee, plants, restaurant marketing, salt, sweet maria's on January 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In this week’s Food News, restaurants design menus to get us to spend more, the dangers of salt, how to roast your own coffee, and a fun slideshow of meat-eating plants: Restaurant Marketing: The Guardian explores how restaurants get us to spend more money simply through their menu design. (Here’s an example – high-profit items [...]
Baltimore Food Events, January and February
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Baltimore food events, Baltimore Restaurant Week, Royal Blue coffee, zeke's coffee on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Baltimore has a couple of great food events coming up over the next two months (Gives us something to look forward to during the cold winter, right?): Coffee, Coffee, Everything Coffee! Wednesday, January 13, 7-9pm (that’s tomorrow) Village Learning Place, 2521 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD Tom Rhodes, the founder and proprietor of Zeke’s Coffee, will [...]
Food News, January 8, 2010: Baltimore Restaurants, Top Pastry Chef, the leader of Whole Foods, Nutrition Trends
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Baltimore restaurants, john mackey, tasting table national, top chef just desserts on January 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In this week’s Food News, Baltimore is highlighted in Tasting Table National, Bravo will have a new competition series, and the CEO of Whole Foods is profiled, and nutrition trends for 2010 are predicted: Baltimore is featured in Tasting Table National: Tasting Table National recommends four restaurants in Baltimore that show we have much more to [...]
