Food Blog

Some Shots from the Evanston Farmer’s Market this weekend.

I’ve come out of dormancy to announce that there’s an Iron Chef video game on Wii coming! (warning: loud music alert)

King Richard II’s recipe book to go online

Fast Food Hits Mediterranean; a Diet Succumbs “…concern has been echoed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which said in a report this summer that the region’s diet had ‘decayed into a moribund state.’ ”

Both tequila and spaghetti are in danger because of the biofuel boom.

Food from Dengeos.

Italian Beef

1/4 lb Burger

Fries

Funnel Cake at the Custer Street Fair, Evanston

50 ways to use bacon

America’s Unhealthiest Drinks Exposed - VitaminWater has about as many calories as a Guinness*

Neither has anything on this 2,300-calorie liquid monstrosity “slurping up one 32-ounce Heath Shake is the caloric equivalent of eating 12 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, the saturated fat equivalent of scarfing 60 slices of bacon, and will give you the same sugar rush as working your way through 13 Haagen Dazs Vanilla and Almond ice cream bars.” Hurry if you want one, they’re discontinuing it at the end of May.

The National Restaurant Association’s show is in town in a few weeks, but they’re also putting on an International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event.

It’s that time of year again, find a Farmer’s Market near you. Evanston’s opens May 17th.

The New Yorker tells the story of Grant Achatz’s battle to save his tongue.

Secret Found: What Makes Food Look Tasty “This natural molecule, named ghrelin, actually improves perception and memory when it comes to food.”

Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear “Monsanto already dominates America’s food chain with its genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as frightening as the corporation’s tactics–ruthless legal battles against small farmers–is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.”

A side effect of the farmer surveillance Monsanto practices - if you try taking a nice photograph of a picturesque barn in farm country, you should be prepared to be confronted by farmers who are paranoid about cameras.

On the brighter side of farming check out Straight from the Farm, a beautiful blog featuring an urban farm in Philadelphia.

LTHforum, Chicago’s best food forum now has a whole section devoting to Gardening, Farming and Foraging.

I don’t have ads on this blog, but if I did I’d send you to:

Fred and Friends, with kitchen products like a pan handle shaped like a banana a measuring cup that measures not just in cups and onces, but useful measurements like ‘5 thousand drops of water’ or ‘as many grains of flour as people on the planet’. And what home would be complete without an accessory to add the vision of Mary on your toast?. They have a blog too - the Joy of Fred.

I’d also try to sell you meat candy - lollyphille has maple bacon lollypops.

I’d love to design and ad for this dual aquatic pet chop/seafood place.

Hot cross bun from Bennison’s.  

 
Oyster at Davis Street Fishmarket. I think that was a big fat Blue Point. They’re half price during their happy hour. 

Chiplotle BBQ Wrap at McDonald’s. Not very good - dull wrap, fake smoke taste. 

Photoshoped animals into fruits