Top Chef: Go Home Howie Eick September 6, 2007 Television, Top Chef Well, I'll admit it, Howie stuck around a lot longer than I initially expected. In the first 2 or 3 weeks, Howie was screw-up-mcgee, fumbling, making errors and producing generally bad dishes. Then somehow...
Praise for So Good? Eick September 5, 2007 Cool "There's a great new food blog that deserves a read called So Good...he's one of the freshest, funniest and most entertaining voices to enter the food blogosphere." - Bacon Salt...
Mars Inc. Makes Me Want to Jab My Eye Out Eick September 5, 2007 Candy, Marketing, Rant 12 Comments Why? Because of their "Milky Way 2 to Go" bar. What is that you ask? Why it's the same as a king size Milky Way, except it's split into two parts! Hey Milky Way, this just in: IT'S A FREAKIN CANDY...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 9/5 Eick September 5, 2007 News 1 Comment Mario Batali's shows have been axed by The Food Network, and his run on Iron Chef is over. Update: Serious Eats is reporting that Batali will be shooting two episodes of Iron Chef next week, and the NY Post...
Mitt Romney Loves Tube Steak Eick September 5, 2007 Steak Via Wonkette. Never have I seen so much excitement over a 4-second clip of a candidate saying "Tube Steak." Oh, Larry Craig, we in the comedy world have so much to thank you...
Throwing Fast Food Eick September 4, 2007 Bizarre, Fast Food 2 Comments That's the name of a project by photographer Steve Aishman. It's a series of 9 photos of various types of fast food being thrown in the air, and then photographed. Steve claims he is: "Interested...
Turducken Eick September 4, 2007 BBQ Like many of you, barbecues were on my weekend agenda. I was particularly excited to go to my buddies on Sunday, because he had told me he was making Turducken. It was a fun barbecue. The hosts also smoked...
So Good Blog/News Round-Up 9/3/07 Eick September 3, 2007 News 2 Comments The Hungover Gourmet writes about his deep-fried food experiences at the Maryland State Fair. A Good Beer Blog reviews Flying Dog brewery's Dogtoberfest. Trifter posts about 7 outrageous luxury...
Merrill Howard Kalin Eick September 2, 2007 Cooking, Television, YouTube 1 Comment If you haven't heard of Merrill Howard Kalin, then you obviously don't spend time on YouTube searching for videos of public access cooking shows that are based in Illinois. Which begs the question, why aren't...