Mark Furstenberg, the master baker who apparently can't rise in the morning without a strong shot of espresso, wrote me shortly after I posted this video about the future of kitchen gadgets. He wanted to take me to task for mocking the portable espresso machine. Wrote Furstenberg: I have one and took it with me [...]
Earlier this week, I wrote about the many different foods, from beets to bones, that people will avoid at all costs. Many of you wrote in with your own food phobias. Below is a sampling of some of the e-mails we received at Y&H Central. Jennifer M sympathizes with my wife and her loathing for [...]
Did we destroy the myth of Maryland fried chicken? The thought struck me recently that I ask a lot from you, faithful Y&H Nation. Many of you respond in kind, perhaps hoping your words will one day appear in the newsletter (sign up at right!) or blog. And what do I do? I sit on [...]
Reader Dana Thompson had a few choice words for Young & Hungry following my rant this morning on crisis shopping and my suggestion that people turn to Target instead of their local grocery store. Dana Thompson wrote the following rebuttal rant, which I liked enough to ask to publish on the blog. Dana Thompson agreed [...]
Y&H reader, Sean Hackbarth, obviously doesn't get much sleep, perhaps because he stays up thinking about the profit margins of gourmet cupcake shops. Hackbarth wrote to Y&H at 12:15 this morning to throw cold water on the theory that these cupcakeries are living on small margins, as implied or downright postulated by a recent New [...]
The New York Times' investigation of the commercial beef industry has consumed much of Y&H's attention this week. First, I solicited a couple of burger men to give their opinions on the differences between commercial ground beef and gourmet ground beef. Then, I asked those with a less-vested interest in the subject— readers, in other [...]
