Dine daily on a full serving of fresh news every morning.  Why?  Because it’s cheaper than your morning latte and more informative than your average nutritional label.

Let's Fry Up Them Fridays

• Epicurious provides a straight-forward, convoluted recipe for salted water for boiling.  Hilarity ensues.

• Civil Eats sees links between the mercury found in high fructose corn syrup and autism.

• Georgia peanut processing plant knowingly sold tainted peanut butter and peanut paste multiple times over the past 2 years.  Investigators found 4 strains at the plant including one strain near a bathroom floor.  Delicious.  Now please pass me that Jiffy if you know what's good for you.

• Kraft and Frito-lay buyers admit to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to partake in a scheme to artificially drive up food prices nationwide. Nice.  First there's that "bailed-out" recession that appears to have no end and in the meantime, buyers have been bribed to make food even more expensive in times of a supposed food crisis.  

• Bored with the standard boring fortune cookies filled with lies and unlucky lottery numbers?  Take matters into your own kitchen and make your own.  

• Study shows that wine snobs judges fail to make the grade in scoring wines during blind tastings.  Instead of looking at a series of points, why don't we just score us an aerator to magically turn undrinkable wine into something fabulous?

Photo courtesy of Slashfood.

-Alice Shin

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Gin and cheese…who would’ve thunk it. Not I for one, but Bombay Sapphire Gin and Artisanal Premium Cheeses did and we’re the better for it. These two formidable forces in their fields paired up to find complementary cocktail and cheese pairings. They happened upon six, and Eats was fortunate enough to taste a few.

The libations were constructed by Bombay Master Mixologist James Moreland and Artisanal Maître Fromager Waldemar Albrecht, who spent many (though one can assume glorious) hours matching cheese to drink and vice versa, striving for divine symbiosis, and they’ve done a formidable job realizing it. 

Following: Four of the Triumphant Pairings, cocktail recipes at the bottom.

Dine daily on a full serving of fresh news every morning.  Why?  Because it’s cheaper than your morning latte and more informative than your average nutritional label.

There's ALways Room for More Thursday

• Holy Chex Mix, Fatman!  HolyTaco.com builds the ark and the covenant to end all arks... and, um, their respective covenants.  It's just so disgusting it might end up being the greatest thing you've ever tasted this Super Bowl Sunday. 
• Granted your juicy xiao long bao and precious moon cakes have made for a special place in my heart, but nowadays I'm not hankering for anything edible that travels from the land of tainted milk and honey.  YES, HONEY.  Dammit, China, get your act together!
• No worries, honey isn't the only one to be marked as tainted.  Most high fructose corn syrup apparently contains mercury.  Taken that HFCS isn't exactly the sugar of the sea, one wonders how the deadly toxin found its way in there.
• Yelp co-founder and CEO Jeremy Stoppelman writes a glowing advertisement an unbiased an op-ed piece on Yelp.com.
• Hershey pulls the plug on Scharffen Berger, but keeps the crappy chocolate on life support. That is one sad chocolate factory.
• The Omnomicon bakes a rainbow cake.  AND SO CAN YOU.  The ingredients include eggs, boxed cake mix and all of Rainbow Brite's friends.  And possibly a unicorn that's lost its way.  Careful upon clicking, your eyes make take you on an unexpected acid trip.
• MUD PIES...that are actually GOOD for you.  On the downside, they might not taste as great as the ones from Marie Callendar's.  On the bright side, your palate might be too young and stupid to even care...assuming that your palate is 3-year's-old and familiar with the taste of ants.
• Make sure your cows are fat and happy...not for slaughter, you sick puppies - for the love of MILK!

Photo courtesy of HolyTaco.com

--Alice Shin

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Dine daily on a full serving of fresh news every morning.  Why?  Because it’s cheaper than your morning latte and more informative than your average nutritional label.

And Welcome to Wednesday...

• Ready for Girl Scout cookie season?  Good.  Now get ready for a little downsizing on them green boxes o Thin Mints.  
• Cook clobbers armed bandit over the head with a giant aluminum spoon.  Spoon breaks in half.  Forks and butter knives mourn.

• PETA's banned Super Bowl ad gives Carl's Jr. and Victoria's Secret a run for their money while a Joe's Crab Shack commercial is pulled from the big game for too man bleeped-out words.  

• Virgin's happiest disgruntled customer writes Richard Branson a thank you note for the on-flight meal. 
  

• Bad cooks, be warned - apparently you're polluting our air with your burnt dinners.  Well, that just put 'smog check' into an entirely new context.

• Little girl left at Chuck E. Cheese by her family.  Family doesn't discover she's missing until they see her picture on the news.  Whoops.  Yeah, like she'll never hold that one against you.  Really.

• Perhaps they downed a little too much grub in between all those arcade games and ticket counting.  Feeling forgetful yourself?  Eat less.

• Montreal pigs, donut-eaters and meter maids are pleading with the city to make insults illegal.

• An anonymous Hansel and Gretel leave a trail of breadcrumbs porkchops.

Photo courtesy of Megalomania Writ Large

-Alice Shin

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Dine daily on a full serving of fresh news every morning.  Why?  Because it’s cheaper than your morning latte and more informative than your average nutritional label.

'Tis Tuesday!

• Cupcakes.  These little sugar muffins have been caught on Youtube dancing and bringing out the Broadway in you.  

• Some studies suggest that a trip to the bar may aid with erectile dysfunction.  Though, from what I hear, many a hungover coed would beg to differ.

• If you're heading for retirement and hearing strange voices, there is reason to believe that a cup of joe can stave off that dimentia.
  

• Chicken Little lays big egg.  How big?  How about one the size of a grapefruit?  Ouch.

• Chapter 2 has been posted up for the world to see.  Months ago, we heard about the whirlwind proposal between 2 West Coast food bloggers, and, as of yesterday, Oishii Eats relayed that she and Eat Drink N Be Merry have eloped.  In VEGAS.

• Recent reports at a swine factory in Iowa found both workers and 49% of the pigs have been infected with MRSA - a drug-resistant "superbug."  Why is this important?  Because this bug can be transferred from animal to human.  So, for the moment, I'd think twice about that bacon if I were you.

Photo courtesy of Grub Street

-Alice Shin

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