42 Restaurants Developer: Michael Gaylord Cost: $0.99 Runs on: iPhone Website: www.42restaurants.com It’s tempting to pass over a cookbook app that touts just 42 restaurants when there are others containing thousands of recipes from hundreds of sources. I’m here to tell you that it would be a mistake. With 42 Restaurants, you get some of the world’s greatest recipes from…
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Food Waste Out of Control
A recent United Nations-commissioned study reports it’s not Avian Flu or West Nile or any other headline-making malady of the day we should be worrying about– it’s waste. As reported by the BBC, “consumers in rich countries waste almost as much food, 222 million tonnes, as the entire net food production of sub-Saharan Africa.” Kind of makes you lose your appetite, doesn’t…
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Mac ‘n Cheese Rising
By Laurie Wiegler When we set out to find a few restaurants making a fancy macaroni dish, we knew that the trend had already exploded — with chefs from Seattle to New York and beyond calling truffled macaroni and cheese, three-cheese macaroni and even lobster or chicken mac ‘n cheese the new normal. Todd English’s Plaza Food Hall in Manhattan…
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Food App Review of the Week: Spice Rack
Spice Rack Developer: Novel Approach Limited Cost: $1.99 Runs on: iPhone Website: http://novelapp.net If you’ve been reading the news lately, you’ve probably seen something about “content farms,” a term describing websites that do nothing but aggregate content or pay pennies to produce garbage content that capitalizes on popular search terms. If there is such a term for mobile apps, Spice…
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James Beard 2011 Winners
Last night the winners of this year’s James Beard Foundation Chef and Restaurant Awards were announced at Lincoln Center in NYC. Twitter was on fire with attendees who tried not to gloat that they were there…and we were not. Toque commends all of the recipients, with special notice to Zahav in Philadelphia; Noriega Restaurant and Hotel in Bakersfield, CA; Lenny…
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Boozy Milkshakes
In other parts of the country–the world, even–a classic burger meal (burger, fries and a shake) is seen as something simple, so often associated with fast food and unhealthfulness. But Angelenos know better. In this city, the place that actually invented drive-thrus, burgers are an art form elevated with custom blends of meat and toppings like artisanal cheeses and heritage…
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