Got the recession blues? A prix fixe $24 lunch or $35 dinner (including molten chocolate cake) at one of Jean-Georges Vongerichten‘s restaurants should be soothing balm for your financial wounds. [via Grub Street]
This is not a joke: Nicholas Kristoff calls for Prez-elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of Food (as opposed to Secretary of Agriculture). It is a wide-ranging, informative, and fascinating op-ed in the NY Times. [via Bitten]
Eat It: Brooklyn reviews Buttermilk Channel, where I failed to go to brunch last weekend. With exception of slightly over-oily pasta, it looks like pretty delicious seasonal dinner fare. Must go!
Bread-making intimidates me. The yeast, the sitting, the rising, the punching, the kneading—one temperamental chemical reaction goes wrong, and your loaf is dust. I was never keen on science, which might explain my wariness of adventures of the doughy kind. I was therefore duly impressed by Food Mayhem‘s post on Ciabatta-making. She even made the starter, which doubles the scary-sciencey quotient.
Whenever I make a recipe that says that a sauce needs to be reduced down to 2 cups (or whatever), I admit that I always guesstimate, with varying results. What the heck are you supposed to do, I always thought, dump all the boiling hot sauce (soup/glaze/whatever) into a measuring cup each time I think I am close to the requisite amount? No, all I need to do was fish a chopstick and rubberband out of my junk drawer. More one this MacGyver-ish technique over at The Kitchn.
Now, stop reading this blog and start Christmas shopping, already!
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