Is Mexican Coca Cola a Myth?

Drinks and Libations

I am a sucker for Mexican Coca Cola. Perhaps, in part, it is the nostalgia-inducing glass bottle that reminds me of my childhood, working in my dad’s beer drive through. I was in charge of processing the returned empties.  Customers would bring cases of empties in and I would sort them by brand so the [...]

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Nothing Says Halloween

General

Like Scary Food…buckle up, y’all and keep your hands inside the car…there’s preserved Vietnamese Mud Fish Sauce ahead.

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More of the Indestructible Happy Meal

Myth busting and kitchen urban legends

There’s an old joke about the indestructible nature of the black boxes on airplanes, which asks why can’t the entire airplane be made of this same indestructible material. That being said, here’s a link to another one of the “let’s leave a Happy Meal out for days and months at a time and see what [...]

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Serious Eats Tackles Their Top Six Food Myths

Myth busting and kitchen urban legends

Serious Eats has a great piece on what they think are the six most common food myths. I love reading things like this as a great object lesson lies within.  It reminds me that you never can really be sure of what you know, that one must always be willing to examine what you think [...]

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Ferran Adrià Bio Book Reviewed in WSJ

Cooks' Books and Blogs

Moira Hodgson of The Wall Street Journal reviews “Ferran”, but frankly, I can’t tell if it is worth it or not.  Adrià’s work speaks for itself, especially for folks who like modernist cuisine and likely have at least one of the El Bulli cookbooks (one of my most prized cookbooks is El Bulli: 1998-2002). However, one [...]

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A Delightful Bourdain Screed on Cooking School

Culinary Education

Among the acquired tastes I’ve picked up over the years, I rank Anthony Bourdain as one of the more odd.  His acidic wit is fantastic, I suppose, as long as you don’t find yourself in the crosshairs of it.  He worked in the ugly underbelly of the cooking world and lived to tell the tale. [...]

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