The Epicurious blog yesterday asked its readers to help predict the top food trends of 2010. And because I’m nothing if not a tastemaker, I humbly submit the following four suggestions:
1. Old shit updated
This one’s easy. Every year, the fancy boys and girls of the glossy food establishment take some boring old thing your grandmama [...]
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November 5, 2009
Our top food trends of 2010
September 22, 2009
We had it all wrong about the mashed potatoes
In times of distress or upheaval, we turn to the so-called “comfort foods” — the familiar staples that sustain us when everything else is up in the air. Except that we don’t. YAY RESEARCH!!
You’d think in times of uncertainty, people would gravitate toward familiar favorites. But a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research [...]
August 3, 2009
Scotland doesn’t really exist, Part II
Pax Arcana
Contemporary historians have already documented that kilts, tartans, cabers, funny talking, blue face paint, rage, and public drunkenness are not native to Scotland as once believed.
Now a food historian named Catherine Brown says that Haggis — the oatmeal, liver and blood-filled sheep’s intestine the Scots love so dearly — is actually a British invention [...]
July 29, 2009
Quien es el bandito?
Pax Arcana
According to the Newton Tab, it appears there is a bandit of some sort run amok on the leafy streets of that suburb. At first the bandit merely covered someone’s car with flour, but recently he or she covered another car with flour, eggs, and salsa.
The presence of an exotic foreign ingredient like salsa [...]
June 19, 2009
Chopped carrots give you cancer
Pax Arcana
As you are aware by now, I am considered one of the foremost scientific minds on the planet. My grasp of disciplines from zoology to pharmacology to pharmacozoology has bedazzled my collegues in the Grand Council of the Great and Serious Men of Science for decades.
That said, I admit I was surprised to learn [...]
June 8, 2009
Monday Random 10: Crunchberry Edition
Pax Arcana
OK, so some shit came up at work on Friday and I didn’t even have time for the Random 10. Here is my attempt to rectify.
False advertising may seem like a trivial offense, but in reality it is a very serious crime against the public. Unscrupulous companies can hide the true costs, risks, or [...]
June 2, 2009
Fried blood sounds, um, delicious?
Pax Arcana
Last weekend I set off to make a tray of gougeres, only to discover that I did not have enough butter to make an appropriately balanced pate a choux! I was so angry I rifled my ascot into my Hungarian manservant’s chambers and ordered him straight to the creamery!
I suppose it could have been [...]
June 1, 2009
Grape Nuts will make you more of a man
Pax Arcana
As one of the last 16 people on earth who genuinely enjoy Grape Nuts, I have long restrained myself from digging too deep into the cereal’s history and nutritional composition for fear of losing my child-like innocence and shit.
Today, however, that all changed. Via the Wall Street Journal, we learn that Grape Nuts isn’t [...]
May 5, 2009
This coffee is too roachey
Pax Arcana
There are many reasons to grind your own coffee beans. For one, freshly ground coffee is smoother and less bitter than preground coffee. For another, the sound of a coffee grinder at 7:30 a.m. is the perfect way to say to your 24-year-old neighbors “Good morning, douchebags, and thanks for the three hours of [...]
May 5, 2009
Your pâté may be dog food
Pax Arcana
My ability to appreciate fine foods is legendary. In fact, the burgeoning field of forensic gastronomics was invented in order to study how I am able to use my palate to discern whether the nutmeg in this custard was harvested in Penang or Indonesia.
As such, I would have been worthless to economists John Bohannon, [...]
