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TwitterThe Siirtolapuutarha Dinner Plate from Finnish designer Marimekko is meant to look like the inside of a mushroom, and be mixed and matched with the other 60s inspired pieces from the Oiva collection. All the other pieces are different, and depict vegetables, city and garden scenes, and geometric rug-like designs that are reminiscent of Danish [...]
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Pickle Your Cocktails
March 7th, 2010 
Food Lover Pickled things have been going strong on the trend-o-meter for a while, and now they are hitting the bar, going a few steps beyond the dirty martini. Grub Street has been a tireless picklespotter, noting that New York City’s The Breslin is serving “off-the-menu pickle backs” (a shot of pickle juice to go with whisky) [...]
Tags: The Next St-Germain?
March 7th, 2010 Food Lover At a recent spirits exhibition, I got a peek at a new French liqueur launching soon in the U.S. called Esprit de June. It is similar to St-Germain’s Elderflower liqueur, but instead of being infused with elderflowers, this liqueur is made from from grape blossoms. The result is tropical and floral, but not cloying in [...]
Anatomy of a Fast-Food PR Feast
March 7th, 2010 Food Lover Bruce Watson, writing for AOL’s DailyFinance, serves up a highly entertaining, vaguely gonzo trip into the underbelly of fast-food PR. He spins a first-person tale of passing the velvet rope at a Burger King all decked out for the media elite:
“I’ve never seen a Burger King with a doorman, but the restaurant near New York’s [...]
The Underworld of Beer Trading
March 7th, 2010 Food Lover Chances are, you’ll never get to buy a bottle of Kate the Great, a Russian imperial stout from Portsmouth Brewery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, even though it’s considered one of the best beers in the world by beer geeks. It was sold out a few hours before its official release on March 1. Fans had [...]
In Defense of Cheap Tippers
March 7th, 2010 Food Lover The spirit of Mr. Pink, apparently recovered from his Reservoir Dogs adventures, takes a moment to possess a still-living body and write up a dining-related blog post for the New York Times. In it, as you’d expect, he expresses his irritation with servers who expect a generous tip. To be fair, the writer (David Sax, [...]
Hardee’s: Down and Out
March 7th, 2010 Food Lover CKE, the owner of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr., is going private after taking a beating in the marketplace. The always reliably observant Dan Mitchell, writing over at The Big Money, takes a look at the management attitudes that allowed Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. to lose ground while selling hamburgers in a recession. He roundly pastes [...]
Breaking News: Food Wishes Nominated for Saveur Magazine 1st Annual Best Food Blog Awards!
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Thank God for Twitter! I’m sure I would have found out eventually, but I saw a tweet this morning congratulating me on being nominated in the video category for the Saveur Magazine 1st Annual Best Blog Awards! I had no idea, and quickly went to make sure I wasn’t being punk’d…it was true!
I know you’ve [...]
How Bacon Can Make Any Dish Suck
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Bacon is delicious, rich, fatty; we all know this, says Chef Tim Love in the Daily Beast. But this thing where we put it in everything, that’s got to stop. The bacon flavor takes over, for starters: “With any ingredient, no matter how versatile, it is the chef’s job to temper it. Instead, because it’s [...]
When Sigg Battles Dasani
March 2nd, 2010 Food Lover Capitalizing on Olympics fever, McDonald’s offered a special promotion in Canada, selling an Olympic-themed custom aluminum water bottle with the purchase of a drink or meal. The funny part is the commercial featuring the bottles: Patrick Chan, the featured spokes-athlete, is shown drinking a Dasani bottled water, as if to say: “Yes, you can refill [...]
