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Archive for Food News
Friday Follies: The Best Fast Food Game Ever
Finally, vindication evidence that the Chile Underground is a true trend-setter: The Fast Food Follies Computer Game!
Yes, you can now visit your neighborhood hamburger joint, order your meal and shoot your way out, all without leaving the comfort of your computer desk!
The game is free, the violence is gratuitous, and the graphics are pure comic [...] Read more »
Two Foodie Mags That Caught My Eye
I love to read about food. I don’t subscribe to many magazines, but I often pick up issues at bookstores. If I think there’s a lot of neat stuff inside I’ll buy a copy.
That happened to me recently with two magazines: The new Food Network Magazine, and the current copy of Every Day with Rachel [...] Read more »
Fat Fighting Foods for Forty-Somethings
Let’s face it, when you hit forty, forty hits back! Losing weight once you “approach maturity” is known to be tougher to do. So you need some help. (Okay, you young whippersnappers don’t need help. Yet. Just remember for later.)
A recent report in Prevention Magazine points out some foods that can help you hold the [...] Read more »
The Underground Expands Socially
It’s that time of year again. When there’s a distinct chill in the air, and grill smoke fogs up parking lots all over America on Fridays and Saturdays. Time to socialize with the whole gang!
The Chile Underground has decided to “get out more” as well. We’ve joined a number of community sites, including Twitter (microblogging), [...] Read more »
Follies Extra: Man Defeats Monster (Burger)
Image Courtesy PopRox.US
The Death Match took almost five hours, and as in all good death matches, only one contestant survived.
This time, it was the human who triumphed.
Brad Sciullo, from western Pennsylvania, took less than the time limit to consume the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser, a fifteen pound burger with five pounds of condiments on board. [...] Read more »
Got Cancer? Fight Back With Jam and Jelly!
Finally, Some Really Good Food News!
The New Scotsman reported yesterday on some exciting research into cancer and food. Researchers at the Institute of Food Research in Norwich announced that pectin, an essential ingredient in most jams and jellies, is a powerful cancer fighter.
In particular, it produces fragments that attach to galectin-3, a protein that influences [...] Read more »
Brew Blues: Guinness in Brew-haha With Grain Growers
Brewed adult beverages pair nicely with zesty-hot foods. What better than an ale, porter or beer to soothe the tongue and palate before digging in again?
One of my favorites is Guinness porter. It’s also one of the oldest commercial brews available; next year they celebrate their 250th year at the St. James Gate Brewery in [...] Read more »
Saturday Salmagundi for August 16, 2008
If you wanted to collect bobblehead dolls of all the top chefs, you’d need a list first. Forbes has recently released the list of the top-earning celebrity chefs, based on their annual earnings. And the winners are: (kitchen-pan roll, please)
10. Anthony Bourdain (No Reservations, Kitchen Confidential) $1.5 million
9. Bobbly Flay (Throwdown, several restaurants) $1.5 million
8. [...] Read more »
