“Lee sources his perfectly clear, superdense, supercold two-inch-by-two-inch cubes from a Queens ice-carving studio, where they’re whittled down from 300-pound blocks. They cost Lee a dollar a cube, and if your drink comes on the rocks, they’ll cost you the same.” [New York magazine]
Sidecar serves food till 4 a.m. every night [OTBKB]Good to know when all other food options are closed in the Slope.
Dutch baby recipe [L.A. Weekly]This looks good. Want to make it.
Tomato & Basil: A love story and recipe [OK, Chickadee]Someone sent us a link today to another of this artist's comics, but this one caught [...]
The Quality-Control Quandary [American Journalism Review]"However, [Baltimore Sun copy desk director John E.] McIntyre points out a 'grim advantage' for the Sun and other papers. For print, at least, there is less copy to edit. The paper, he says, has lost about a third of its staff in the past few years and almost that [...]
Restaurateur and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio has introduced several new gimmicks at Craft in recent months. First, in November 2008, it was Tom Tuesday Dinners, in which, as one wag pointed out, (and I’m paraphrasing) “It’s gotten to the point that it’s news when a chef actually cooks at his own restaurant now.” [...]
Pet Shop Boys rebuff name-change request [The Press Association]OMG. STFU, PETA.
Canon RAW hack [Lifehacker]Uses a firmware update to allow RAW processing on many Canon point and shoots.
Bierkraft makes sandwiches [Here is Park Slope]Good to know for those days I work from home. I can't imagine these would be anything other than awesome, considering the caliber [...]
I was robbed. My New Yorker Caption Contest photo was far superior to any of these. As C. says, “You should do a write-in vote. Yours was way better and incorporated a bunch of New Yorkers’ (the people, not the magazine) favorite things: Jewish people who eat Chinese food on holidays.” My caption [...]
Bacon-wrapped pickles [Now Serving]Lots of bacon experiments here. The most compelling is the bacon-wrapped pickle venture. Bacon-wrapped chicken livers a close second. Not so interested in bacon-wrapped candy bars, though.
AHT now reduced to ‘a column’AHT mindshare is gone: "Actually, Adam Kuban, who writes at A Hamburger Today, a column at Serious Eats, said the BK [...]
I must seem like a beginning photography student, taking all these pictures of corrugated sheet metal.
What can I say? I like the colors.
I usually don’t include pictures of friends or family in my "365 Photos" series because to do so means I have to make them public. But that proscription means that I have to leave out some great photos that often sum up the day.
This one, of my longtime friends Charlie and Jeff, was too good [...]