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Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

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Weber grill misunderstood by Nathan Myhrvold, NYT

(via Kottke)

Nathan Myhrvold, cookbook author
Nathan Myhrvold, ex-Microsoftie and founder of an invention company called Intellectual Ventures, is also really interested in food, so much so that he’s writing a monster cookbook (currently ~1500 pages) about the science of cooking.
In another discovery of culinary heat transfer physics, Dr. Myhrvold said the bulbous shape and black color [...]

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Cooking Up a Story interviews Ann Vileisis

On the topics covered in her new book Kitchen Literacy
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Part 2:

Things like this make me excited about food and cooking. Makes me realize, too, how long it’s been since I spent serious time in the kitchen (or on the couch doing prep work).

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The cupcake’s reign must come to an end

photo credit: jek in the box
Note: this is a repost of an article from my previous blog. I wasn’t boozing recently, but my animosity towards the cupcake still stands
While boozing recently in celebration of a friend’s birthday party, the birthday girl reveled there would be cupcakes later. As I’m sometimes wont to do, [...]

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Cooking up a Story interview Mark Bittman (pt. 2)

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