Apparently I’ve been asleep in a closet somewhere because everyone’s been talking about the edible menu and I’m only just finding out! Chef Homaru Cantu, chef/nerd-in-disguise at Moto restaurant in Chicago is doing more than thinking out of the box; he’s creating the box, as in his “cook at your table” fish plate. Cantu created an ink jet printer that uses organic, edible inks. Now I’ve tried rice paper long ago and wasn’t thrilled. I’m not sure I’d like a piece of melt-in-your-mouth paper that tasted like Kobe beef, but those paying $195 a plate for the 18-course taster menu must think it’s just “crazy man!”
What I’d love to see is Cantu’s “cheese snow,” made by spraying mozzarella dairy stock into liquid nitrogen, garnished with parsley oil. Never satisfied Cantu goes on to create deep fried cotton candy and, ick, hot dog ice cream. Sounds yucky, but hey, if a top chef says it’s good, I’d trust him, at least once.
Kraft gets slammed with a chocolate recall just in time for the 2007 holiday season. Kraft’s Premium White Chocolate the 6 oz sized box, apparently they’ve found salmonella. Yes, it lurks everywhere.
Keeping track of all these recalls isn’t easy, so get their email or RSS reports. It’s getting so we’ve got to wonder if anything is safe to eat any more.
Well, today’s the day. I’ve finally had it with Blogger.com. Now I’ m having to move, by hand, all the posts from my old blog, since there’s no way to do it automatically if you’re not hosted on Blogspot. Fine.
Why am I moving? Suddenly you can’t even make a simple post without seeing the “Your publish is taking longer than expected. To continue waiting for it to finish” and you click and click and … nothing happens. I don’t know what went wrong but it seems Google’s dropping the ball on Blogger.com.
Hopefully I’ll get it moved, find a great new template and all will be well with the world soon enough, but meanwhile, if you find a broken link, or just want to gripe, drop me a comment. 🙂
The New York Times printed a story in July, 2007, “In Small Packages, Fewer Calories More Profits” that you can portion out the full-sized bag yourself and save money, but who does that? We’re a nation of food and beverage guzzlers. With self discipline at an all time low, 100 calorie mini-packs are perfect. More importantly they’ll slowly train consumers to eat a more reasonable amount at snack time. I applaud the manufacturers for getting this one right.
An Edible Menu?
