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The English Can Cook: Underground Restaurant Events. Editor of Restaurant Magazine Admits World’s 50 Best List Is Basically Useless. It's slipped out of the top spot this year, down to #2, but should we really trust this list?

Editor of Restaurant Magazine Admits World’s 50 Best List Is Basically Useless

Photo: Casper Christoffersen/AFP/Getty Images The latest update to the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, as compiled by the U.K.'s Restaurant magazine, just dropped last week, and once again there's the usual rumblings about the list's integrity. The ranking is decided by an "Academy" of 936 food industry types — including chefs, critics, journalists, restaurateurs, and self-appointed "gourmands" — who cast votes for their seven favorite dining experiences of the last eighteen months.

It's subjective to be sure, and doesn't even boast the rigor of the Michelin Guides, whose inspectors return systematically to reassess a restaurant's quality over time. Below, the five criticisms that Drew fails to defend. The voters use no specific set of criteria. Top 10 food apps - Page 11 - Food pictures on Yahoo!7 Lifestyle. Food and drink on planes: High tea, anyone? Recipe Comix: <i>Tonkotsu</i> Ramen. Enlarge "Draw us a recipe.

Recipe Comix: <i>Tonkotsu</i> Ramen

" That's the brief we sent to a slew of our favorite comic artists; each week, we're thrilled to present what they sent back. The resulting works of art are fantastic, beautiful, hilarious, thoughtful, informative, and often all of the above — and they prove that a recipe doesn't just have to be words on paper. This week's Recipe Comic comes from Aaron Lloyd Barr, an artist living in New York. Barr shares an illustrated recipe (or as he calls it, a "Ram-en-fographic") for making and garnishing the ultimate, authentic tonkotsu ramen, pig trotters and all. See previous weeks' Recipe Comix in the archive » Aaron Lloyd Barr is an artist and illustrator living in New York. Inicio. Drink a Tom & Jerry during the holidays - chicagotribune.com.

December 18, 2011|By Margaret Sheridan, Special to Tribune Newspapers Tom & Jerry is a seasonal affair that teases the mouth, and warms the hand.

Drink a Tom & Jerry during the holidays - chicagotribune.com

It has nothing to do with cartoon characters. This yuletide tradition of dark booze, hot water, clouds of sweetened egg batter and nutmeg has a short season (typically Thanksgiving to New Year's Day) and a shorter shelf life (hours). Popularized here during the Eisenhower era, the tradition got trampled at the bar when convenience and clear-colored spirits lured new generations. T&Js are fussy. The classic T&J calls for two shots of booze (one shot each: brandy and dark rum or bourbon) per cup, two dollops of batter and a top-off of boiling water. 11 Bad Things We Learned May Actually Be Good For You In 2011. 'Ñam Ñam', cocina y aventura con Darío Barrio. Jueves, 08 de Diciembre de 2011 22:22 diariodegastronomia.com El cocinero Darío Barrio (restaurante Bassa Dassa, Madrid), será el protagonista, junto a la presentadora Ares Teixidó (‘No le digas a mamá’, Cuatro), de un nuevo programa televisivo, Ñam Ñam, con el recorrerán el mundo para descubrir y aprender a cocinar algunos de los platos y productos más exóticos del planeta.

'Ñam Ñam', cocina y aventura con Darío Barrio

El capítulo piloto ha sido rodado en Brasil, donde en diversos y llamativos escenarios la pareja protagoniza escenas como ir de compras en un mercado de alimentación de la ciudad de Manaos, salir de caza con una tribu indígena de la selva amazónica o pescar y posteriormente aprender a cocinar, de la mano de una habitante local, el pez de tres metros que acababan de capturar en las aguas de un río: un pirarucú, uno de los peces de escama de agua dulce más grandes del mundo y uno de los más apreciados en la gastronomía amazónica. Cocina Creativa en Casa. 20 awesome expat blogs. Tempe. Nuts and bolts (AKA Party Mix) is a seasonal snack in my family, something that pops up around this time every year.

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Although the recipe makes a generous amount, it disappears as fast as it is put out. The combination of toasted cereals, pretzels, and nuts with butter and worcestershire sauce produces an incredibly addictive, not too salty snack (although I've always found the packaged versions to be overly salty and nowhere nearly as tasty). As much as I love the original version (or at least the version that my mother makes), I decided to try giving it a little Javanese flavor. Instead of butter, I substituted fresh pressed whole kernel virgin coconut oil. To be honest, I was worried that the coconut oil would overpower the mix. Javanese Nuts and Bolts 2 stalks of lemongrass, inner lower third only, very finely chopped (easiest to do in a food processor) 14 kaffir lime leaves 1 cup fresh pressed virgin coconut oil 1/4 cup kecap manis 1 TBS fish sauce 2 tsp panang curry paste. Still life: Bent objects & OWNI.eu, News, Augmented - StumbleUpon.

UPDATE: The Return of Bent Objects Wires transform these objects from inanimate to hilarious works of art.

Still life: Bent objects & OWNI.eu, News, Augmented - StumbleUpon

Little polish girl McDonalds as Sculpture Materials Yeah, this is where those come from Dancing Queens English breakfast Sylvia Muffin put her head in the oven. The introvert Bananas in bed – let’s slip into bed together. Food did you knows.