Entries from The Amateur Gourmet tagged with 'links'
The Bear in Toblerone
Here's a neat post featuring 25 logos with hidden messages. My favorite is, of course, the food-related one: check out the bear in the mountain of Toblerone. [via Metafilter]...
Crossword Cookery
Lately I've been on a crossword puzzle kick--my goal is to conquer the Sunday Times Magazine--so I took great pleasure in watching these crossword puzzle geeks try to decipher the culinary clues devised by Will Shortz on this episode of Dinner Impossible. [via Eat Me Daily] ...
Meat Cards
Is your business card lacking a certain richness, a certain chewiness, a certain gaminess? Then try Meatcards: business cards made from meat and lasers. [via The Washington Post's "All We Can Eat" blog]...
Sea Salted Everything Bagels Done Right
This is what I want to eat right now from the best named food blog I've seen in a while. [via Elise's Twitter feed]...
The Kitchen Cure
For those of you who are scared to go into your kitchens, may I suggest you head over to Apartment Therapy's Kitchn blog and join their six-week kitchen cure? "The goal, in six fast weeks" according to the site, "is for your kitchen to be clean, healthy and organized, and your cooking more nourishing and delicious than ever." What a great way to start your Spring....
The Grocery Scanner
My favorite political blogger, Ezra Klein, started a food blog with his friends called The Internet Food Association, which I've been reading pretty steadily since it started, a few months ago. Today, Ben Miller has a post up called "A New Way To Grocery Shop" (click here) about a new device that you may have seen in your grocery store: it's a scanner you take with you while you shop, scanning each item that you put in your cart. This serves two purposes: (1) it lets you keep track of how much you're spending; (2) it expedites the check-out process (they just use your scanner, instead of ringing you up.) However, the scanner also pops up with coupons and special offers based on your shopping choices. This leads to many questions, among them: (1) How much information do you want your grocery store to know about you? (2) How much does it keep permanently on record? Have any of you encountered grocery scanners yet? What do you think?...
Cooking With Rockstars
From our friend Matt of MattBites comes Cooking With Rockstars, an awesome video blog where rock stars dish about their favorite foods. Don't miss Rufus Wainwright going ga-ga over head cheese or Jack Black's recipe for a Dorito burrito....
