Food

How to: Chocolate Milk

How to make chocolate milk from LauraFries.com on Vimeo. ATLANTA, Georgia, February 22, 2008 This utterly pointless video of my friend Carrington making chocolate milk at Gato Bizco Cafe [Yelp profile] in Atlanta was shot when I was testing out my new camera. It still makes me [...]

February 22nd, 2008

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Carved Orange, Rusan’s

ATLANTA, Georgia, February 11, 2008 I stopped off at Rusan’s in Adventure Plaza (ok, Edgewood Retail Center) for some quick sushi before a wifi session. Sitting alone at the bar is always fun if you like watching the chefs go at it, and that treat was made even better when one of the gentleman carved an [...]

February 11th, 2008

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Candied Salmon with Citrus Lentils and Guac

ATLANTA, Georgia, February 7, 2008 An amalgamation of existing recipes, this dish came together in a snap. Fast, spicy and sweet - completely unlike the horrible Lipstick Jungle (which seems to exist entirely to convince me that I ought to be wearing a wide belt around the middle of my torso). This dish is plated [...]

February 7th, 2008

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Havarti Baked Eggs with Roasted Autumn Vegetables

ATLANTA, Georgia, November 26, 2007 Bless you, delicious and easy to make quiche without a crust. Bless you and your cheesy fluffy egginess, and your hearty reheat-me-laterness that makes you an ideal brunch companion. Read on for preparation details. MMmmmmm, fancy make-ahead casserole that keeps super good and is all impressive and stuff Whisk together 5 eggs, the whites [...]

November 26th, 2007

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Roasted Corn Hashbrowns

ATLANTA, Georgia, October 19, 2007 It took me three tries, but I’ve perfected the from-scratch-in-ten-minutes-while-my-roommate-showers hash browns. Russet potatoes are peeled and shredded directly into a pan of hot oil and butter; the bottom layer crisping while the additional layers of potato remain moist. Garlic and corn are scattered around the perimeter of the pan in intervals, [...]

October 19th, 2007

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Fast Food Porn, Clipped

Clipped using Clipmarks, here’s an excerpt from someone else’s blog about the difference between Fast Food Porn and the real deal. Clipmarks is a program I’ve been using with the intention of blogging it up on web.AAN.org, my web publishing news for alt papers blog. clipped from www.thewvsr.comFast Food: Ads vs. Reality Each item was purchased, taken [...]

May 15th, 2007

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Perfect Baguettes, My Kitchen

WASHINGTON, DC, May 7, 2007 It is official. I - ever the perfectionist - can say that I have mastered the baguette. It only took me - oh - four years. Here tis, sliced for lunch with fontina, swiss, pancetta, granny smith apples (yes, I am obsessed with them), and strawberries. Check that luscious crust! Visual How-to

May 7th, 2007

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Food

Recipe: Paneer (Fresh Indian Cheese)

WASHINGTON, DC, April 3, 2007 God, sometimes you guys act like if I’m not doing something totally random like making my own cheese that I’m drinking myself into retardation with Australian red wine and eating yippie junk food fake chick’n nuggets that I add ketchup to mid chew. And that’s cuz you’re judgmental. But I made my own [...]

April 3rd, 2007

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Food

Fast Food, Freakier Toys

WASHINGTON, DC, March 27,2006 McDonald’s Gendered Happy Meal Toys 13th St. NW & New York • Washington, DC Recent posts I’ve written on web.aan.org Onion TV News Launching April ’07 Tech to Watch: Twitter Small communities engage people How to generate traffic using social networks Eyetrack data: What users really see Fab Channel: Free, quality and LEGAL music concerts for your site Is it a [...]

March 27th, 2007

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Food

Slow Food, Slower Sex

Excerpts from International Late Night Email Boy: There’s a conversation in this sometime, maybe … but it’s an interesting thing to be male and decline an open offer for sex. It has sort of a twofold negative implication in that it’s slightly “un-male” (what kind of guy declines sex?) and also, it hurts feelings. Maybe [...]

March 26th, 2007

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