New York cheesecake
Bill Madison presents the World’s Best Recipe for Authentic New York Cheesecake.
On Duke Ellington’s birthday
From a 1944 New Yorker profile: Ellington on food.
Sriracha ≠ mayonnaise
“Hot sauce must be hot.”
Les Blank (1935–2013)
“He shot what he wanted, captured it beautifully, and those subjects are now gone.”
Wallace Stevens on persimmons
“I have far more things to eat and far more things to drink than are good for me. I indulge in abstemious spells merely to keep my balance.”
“Calamari”
Elaine and I listened last night to This American Life’s inquiry into the possible existence of imitation calamari.
An afterthought
If I were Boing Boing, the title of the previous post might’ve read like so: Hardee’s commercial likens young women, virgins to breakfast meat.
Hardee’s pigmeat commercial
The song is not about bacon.
Pepperidge Farm Cookies
Leon Neyfakh tried every variety of Pepperidge Farm Cookie.
Harry and Bud’s European Cuisine
if you live within driving distance of the Queen City of the Wabash, aka Terre Haute, Indiana, make a reservation and go.
Charlotte russe
Charlotte russe is a delightful food of the dowdy world, or at least the New York City version of the dowdy world.
One more Automat
A 1943 photograph.
Automat beverage section
Automat coffee dispensers, same as they ever were.
New York, 1964: Automat
From Harold Hart’s Guide to New York City.
“Lunch Hour NYC”
At the New York Public Library, opening tomorrow, “Lunch Hour NYC.”
The toast sandwich
Bread, butter, toast, salt, pepper, really.
Movie recommendation: Jiro Dreams of Sushi
“The willingness to look more and more deeply so as to discover ways to improve or reinvent one’s work offers a model for every form of endeavor.”
Three great strip-mall restaurants
One of Tyler Cowen’s six rules for dining out: “Get out of the city and into the strip mall.”
Vegan phở
Recipes from the New York Times.
Rice and beans à la Hannity
Sean Hannity echoes The Grapes of Wrath.
Recipes I stopped reading
“1. Fold each licorice piece in half and push ends through centers of 12 marshmallows. Set aside.”
Meat-flavored potato chips
The horror.
From The World of Henry Orient
A passage from Nora Johnson’s 1958 novel.
Recently updated
Anthony Bourdain’s hilarious commentary on Food Network stars.
Breakfast with the Food Network
If life were like the Food Network.
Dream jobs
Short-order cook, soda jerk, stationer, traffic cop.
Condiment challenge
“Assortment of condiments to accompany lamb curry,” a 1964 photograph.
What tastes like summer?
A question from the Quo Vadis blog.
“[T]he Sinatra of food”
Jonathan Schwartz on the avocado.
Salt war
An article at Scientific American suggests that excess salt is not particularly dangerous to human health.