Archive for the 'Food blogs' Category

Who is ‘Cocinar para los Amigos’?

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

While researching patatas a la riojana for a recent post on a wine dinner in Connecticut, I came across a series of cooking videos made in Spanish by a blogger in San Sebastián named José Mari. His blog is called Cocinar para los amigos, or ‘Cook for your friends,’ and I am having a really hard time trying NOT to watch all of them, TONIGHT.

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Culinary Institute of America Launches Rioja Educational Documentary

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

The time has finally arrived: the Culinary Institute of American at Greystone has just announced the release of “Discovering Rioja,” an educational documentary on the region now available in both webcast form and as a free DVD from the Prochef.com website.



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Mari Thai

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Every so often I come across a blog that’s such a joy to read, so lovely to gaze upon, that I find myself lost in the minutiae of things I had no idea I gave a damn about–the cyber-version of a really good, really random New Yorker magazine.

Last night I checked out a blog called Fedification, written by former Martha Stewart Living producer Mari Uyehara, who’s traveling around Thailand for the next several months and has recently started sending tasty dispatches out into the ether, posts on mangosteens and kao soi (egg noodle curry soup) and the difficulty in getting a proper cocktail in Bangkok, accompanied by vibrant and, yes, sexy photographs of liquid refreshments, freshly ravaged fruit, and hot chili-speckled pools of curry-colored deliciousness.

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