food

Meat-O-Lanterns

October 26, 2008

This weekend we were supposed to head out to Long Island for our annual pumpkin picking outing for my Mom’s birthday. It’s super fun and we tend to eat everything in sight at the farm (roasted corn, apples, lemonade, hot dogs, cotton candy, baked goods) and then we go home and eat even more for [...]

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Virginia Chutney: building a chutney empire – one jar at a time.

April 6, 2008

Here’s a great piece about the Virginia Chutney Company (made of up of our friend Oliver Turner and his lovely parents) and how, whether you realize it or not, chutney is sweeping the nation. In fact, …if you think you’ve never eaten chutney, you’re probably wrong. Ever had ketchup? Or McDonald’s sweet and sour sauce [...]

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Which mega-corporation owns your favorite little organic brand?

March 15, 2008

Not to say we were completely delusional about the business nature behind these things, but it still hurts to see the truth right in front of your face – seeing our buddies Kashi and Bear Naked on this list was particularly disheartening (Oddly enough both under the same parent company. Maybe we secretly love Kellogg’s?) [...]

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Ordering a pizza has never been so awesome

January 18, 2008

Check out this pizza configurator Crispin Porter + Bogusky recently launched for Domino’s. Big bonus points for tying in a little user-generated content by letting their users save the pizzas they create and make them available to the Domino’s community at large. Everyone becomes a snack artist! Domino’s BFD (Big Fantastic Deal)

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Christmas recap

December 29, 2007

In what has become a great little tradition, Karen and I had my mother over for dinner this Christmas Eve. We made a roasted chicken, green beans sauteed with mushrooms and crushed almonds and I took a crack at making potatoes-au-gratin – a childhood favorite of mine that my mother used to make. After dinner, [...]

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TOAD: Dec. 19th, 2007 – I bring my Medisterkaker to Scandinavian Christmas

December 22, 2007

TOAD: Dec 19th, 2007: Every year Karen’s family celebrates Scandinavian Christmas and I am surrounded by all things grey and fishy. Last year I decided that I would stop complaining and step it up by making something Scandinavianof my own that I could get excited about. I ended up making something called Medisterkaker, which loosely [...]

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TOAD Catchup Nov. 13th-25th

November 25, 2007

TOAD: Nov. 13th, 2007: A street photo/art collage that someone put up right near our apartment. See it in closer detail here. Neat. TOAD: Nov. 14th, 2007: On Wednesday mornings, two women sell freshly made doughnuts to the many people from Park Slope who make their way to/from Flatbush Avenue. You can find them sitting [...]

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