Posts Tagged ‘Serious Eats’

Take Serious Eats’ Beer Quiz

OK, Y&H Nation: Given the double blast of beer sophistication on this blog, I fully expect you to ace this suds quiz over on Serious Eats. (Registration required.) I took the quiz myself and...well, find out my score after the jump.

Andrew Zimmern Cries Uncle in Thailand

You'll have to indulge me here. I want to share this video less because of its gross-out factor and more because of this hilarious piece from Serious Eats writer Jillian Madison who offers a blow-by-blow account of poor Andrew Zimmern's encounter with, ahem, rustic Thai cooking on Bizarre Foods. Every stunt-food host has his limitations. [...]

Fast Food Nation: On Five Guys’ Victory and KFC’s Double Down

Here's your winner of Serious Eats' chain burger tourney. On Tuesday, KFC rolled out its Double Down chicken sandwich — I really ought to put quotes around the word "sandwich" for this bun-less creation  — and the food media immediately tore into it. Today, cardiologists everywhere are celebrating. More on that in a moment — the [...]

Serious Eats’ Slice Blog Bites into RedRocks and Pete’s Apizza

Slice's anonymous Pizzablogger is obviously a knowledgeable sort about pies. Whoever he/she/giant-amorphous-blob-of-dough is, Pizzablogger is certainly in love with his/her/its words. He/she/it spills a ton of them on a pair of visits to RedRocks Firebrick Pizzeria and Pete's New Haven Style Apizza in Columbia Heights. Y&H typically has misgivings about experts from better pizza cultures [...]

The Day in Food-Related April Fool’s Jokes

Falafel shots and hot dog air coming soon to a mobile vendor near you! For Y&H, there's usually a pattern to my April Fool's Day, and it goes like this:  I login to the computer, call up Google to conduct a search, and sit there slack-jawed for a minute while reading about the Google Gulp [...]

GQ’s Alan Richman Takes Eric Ripert to Costco

In the debut (and perhaps only) episode of Avec Alan,  GQ's food and wine critic Alan Richman takes celebrity chef Eric Ripert to Costco and then prepares a multi-course meal based on the ingredients they buy. What does Ripert think about Costco? Check out his quote on Serious Eats. Then check out the video. The [...]

Hot Kitchen Prepares a Roast Leg of Lamb

Y&H suspects most folks will watch this loooong video not because the recipe is worth a damn but because the cook is wearing some sexy black outfit and rubbing her leg of lamb with a spice mixture. Why do I imagine Beavis saying, "Heh-heh, she's rubbing her leg of lamb with a spice mixture!" Far [...]

Learn How to Make Your Very Own Skin Flute

Leave it to colleague Erin Zimmer over at Serious Eats to find this gem of a video. The dude in this vid can help you make your very own hot dog skin flute or, as it's known in some circles, the "gristle whistle." My favorite line: The leftover drill meat, the instrument man claims, can [...]

Times’ New Dining Critic Gets His First Reviews

Just a day after the New York Times announced that Sam Sifton would be its next restaurant reviewer, the blogosphere and the dead-tree media have been tirelessly carving up the critic like a roast pig. Here's a taste of what's been written about Sifton so far: Eater.con has put together a dossier on Sifton. It [...]

How to Send Your Food Back Without Pissing Off the Chef

Returning food to the kitchen is a delicate business, particularly in these economic times. No restaurant wants to swallow the costs of a 32-oz. porterhouse just because you think it's five degrees beyond medium-rare. (And likewise, you don't want to waste your meager wages on some flavorless piece of meat that no amount of salt [...]