Recipe Generators: random acts of cooking
You’re not Old Mother Hubbard. There’s always something to work with. You’ve got cans of beans and bags of pasta, salsa, olive oil, frozen peas, and bread crumbs, a...
View ArticleThe Joy of (Online) Cooking
Where do you look for culinary inspiration? Online recipe collections are giving traditional cookbooks a run for the money. More and more of us are bypassing the cookbooks in our own collections and...
View ArticleAre You a Food Geek?
image courtesy of Consumer Eroski In the world of geeky niches, Food Geeks are a little more socially-acceptable than Gamers and Gadget Nerds but not as cool as Music or Movie Geeks. At least according...
View ArticleDinner With Oscar: the Academy Awards after-party
.pPhoto courtesy of Al Seib via LA Times . Long gowns, longer speeches, and Wolfgang Puck. It’s Oscar time! The red carpet has been rolled out in front of the Kodak Theater, but for a few more days it...
View ArticleThe Rumors of their Death have been Greatly Exaggerated
image courtesy of EAT ME DAILY Cookbooks have not just survived the online onslaught, they have thrived. The recession gave cookbook sales a boost by taking us out of restaurants and putting us back in...
View ArticleCook Your Cupboard Wants to Know: What’s Languishing in Your Pantry?
Cook Your Cupboard wants to know what’s in your pantry. NPR has launched a food project inspired by a dilemma that every one of us has faced: What do I do with [...]
View ArticleChef Watson: The Supercomputer that Cooks
A head of lettuce, a can of beans, a single potato, and a few stray onions—it looks like mighty slim pickings to you, but factor in a half a dozen pantry staples and Chef Watson can come up with...
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