Wednesday Links: Heavy Pans, Great Techniques, and the new Escoffier

17th Feb 2010

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Welcome to Wednesday Links. This is our weekly collection of four of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

Heavy Metal: The Science of Cast Iron
Finally, someone sees through the false information that cast iron is a great conductor of heat. It's just the opposite, which is why we love it: it responds slowly to temper...

Wednesday Links: Can You Learn to Cook from Cookbooks?

10th Feb 2010

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Welcome to Wednesday Links, our weekly collection of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

What's the Recipe?
Can you learn to cook from cookbooks? We linked to this article a few weeks ago and this week it's making the blog rounds.  Adam Gopnick believes "you can only learn from watching someone in the kitchen."

On Cookbooks
Ruth Reichl does...

Wednesday Links: Olive Oil Barons, Secret Ramen Shops, and How to Be a Terrible Bartender

3rd Feb 2010

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Welcome to Wednesday Links. This is our weekly collection of four of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

The Olive Oil Barons
Awesome story about growing olives and pressing them into oil from a couple of complete amateurs.  Who knew that slightly less ripe olives are important for a peppery taste?...

Wednesday Links: Cocktail Videos and Grits for Northerners

27th Jan 2010

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Welcome to Wednesday Links. This is our weekly collection of four of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

Cocktail Techniques
Recently Gary Regan released his list of basic cocktail techniques, and the San Francisco Chronicle convinced Neyah White and Jackie Patterson to demonstrate them on camera. Of particularly note: how to correctly stir a cockt...

Wednesday Links: Reading Meat, Homemade Tofu, and Great Defunct Food Blogs

20th Jan 2010

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Welcome to Wednesday Links. This is our weekly collection of four of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

Wednesday Links: How Not to Die from Liquid Nitrogen, and The Future of Food Media

13th Jan 2010

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Wednesday Links is our weekly collection of the four most interesting food reads we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

Wednesday Links: The New Classic Cocktails, Mad Science and How to Buy a Duck

6th Jan 2010

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Welcome to the first edition of Wednesday Links. This is our weekly collection of four of the most interesting food links we've discovered in the past week. Enjoy!

Nick:

Heston Blumenthal's Mad Scientist Christmas Dinner
This video showcases Heston's perfect Christmas meal...and I thought my Christmas dinner of f...