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Food in Mouth

Thermal refreshening of a bread product

By far, the weirdest thing ever about a blog is being able to see what my previous pictures used to be like. Most of what I write is just so atrocious that a tiny bit of upchuck warms the back of my throat whenever I have to read my own 'writing'. Pictures are more 'in your face' and requires very little time to analyze. This English muffin picture was uploaded May of 2008. Jeebus. Three years ago! Why am I talking about toasted English muffins? Because today the topic is toast and Nathan Myhrvold. If you don't know who Nathan Myhrvold is, then you probably was asleep when he was promoting his 6 volume, 2400 page tomb called Modernist Cuisine. The guy used to be CTO at Microsoft. Smart dude. Now he works at Intellectual Ventures, which produced the book. See I thought this Myhrvold...

Dear Chefs

After two months of being a parent, I can say that it doesn't get any easier! The food blogging pretty much has stopped but it's nice to take...

Butter Lane Review: Cupcakes are better than pies

Watching the professional basketball industry is sometimes like watching the food industry. A few weeks ago NYTimes wrote about how it's time for the pie! Move over cupcake, y'all is done! I can't tell you how often you hear that in sports. Are Kobe's knees too old? Are the Celtics too decrepit to be serious contenders again this year? Is Kevin Durant the best player in the NBA? The answers to those questions in order are: not yet, almost too decrepit, and KD is top 5 for sure. But prognostication means that you gotta be the first to talk about something, and that's how you start a trend. If indeed pies do overtake cupcakes, at some point someone would be like, "NYTimes was right all along!" And if you're the first guy to say Kevin Durant is awesome and can lead his team to a...

Dinic's Oven Roasted Beef & Pork Review: Dinic's sandwiches in Philly

After a bunch of blog posts, you start to realize that people really love lists and comparisons and best of [insert city/neighborhood]. It's difficult to really just say, "Oh well this was tasty." People seemingly only turn heads when you make really outlandish statements. Like a sandwich is only a sandwich when it appears on a top ten list or something. I tasted three sandwiches two weekends ago in Philly. All three were from DiNic's. So let's just break it down for you real simple. If you're in Philly, you pretty much have to stop at Reading Terminal Market for some food. Really, you could have lunch there during every day of your stay, and eat something different for like two weeks. I was there with Steph and we both thought it was like Chelsea Market on crack. Chelsea Market gets this rep for being a...

Almost fighting a cabbie and being scared

One thing I've never done in my life is engage in a physical fight. But just as Steph and I were about to get on an airport shuttle, I was close to getting into it with a Parisian cabbie who jacked 3.40 Euros from me (yo, I'm cheap, 3.40 euros is like over $5 bucks). And let me tell you, I was scared. This is how it went down, the cab fare to the Opera was 16.60 Euros and I just thought, "Hey, I can just give him a 20 and get change...