Posts tagged as Eating
When Not To Text
Time wonders: Is it okay to text while eating?
But maybe they should be asking a different question.
Men hv gotten dumber since smartphone introduction. One resto owner says he now has mats under toilets 4 men who miss the bowl while txtingless than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry® 
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The Best Fried Chicken In The World, Galaxy, Universe
I have a recommendation as to where you should go for lunch: Charleston, South Carolina. Now, unless you're in Hanahan or Folly Beach or Mt. Pleasant, it could take you a long time to get there. So you might want to leave soon. But you really should go, because Charleston has some of the very best food you will ever eat anywhere. There is a place there called Jestine's Kitchen, which has become quite famous, and so often has a line of people waiting outside, and so also has lots of people who like to talk about food on the internet dismissing it as a "tourist trap" and inferior to other restaurants of its kind in the area, but you should go there if you like fried chicken, because I went there last Thursday, and it has the best fried chicken I have ever eaten in my life. READ MORE
England Mourns American Food Hero
I suppose we can let the Daily Mail headline speak for itself: "Dead at just 29, the 575lbs man who was the public face of high-calorie U.S. burger chain Heart Attack Grill." They do go on though: "The larger-than-life character is famous for promoting the gut-busting restaurant in Arizona with its unhealthy menu of huge hamburgers, milkshakes and fries cooked in lard." Flash-fried lard milkshakes! I'm in! And all this big talk from the country that invented deep-frying candy bars. For shame.
How to Eat at Chipotle
When you walk into Chipotle, don’t look ashamed or frightened. You’re eating some righteous food, so own up to it. Stride purposely to the first stop at the Chipotle station and in a commanding voice say: “I’ll have a burrito with black beans and steak.” READ MORE
Meet Your Vegetables: Grapes and Things That Taste Like Themselves
When I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine wrote a play for her senior thesis, a play about, I think, Samuel Coleridge and his sister and another poet. (I'm not looking it up because let's see what I remember from those frighteningly many years ago.) Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were also characters. (This friend is now a successful playwright, so well done there.) There was a lot about writing, and a little about an asthma attack, and also, at one point, Gertrude said to Alice, or Alice said to Gertrude, "Salt makes things taste more like themselves." READ MORE
How to Choose Wine, for Vegetarians and Those Who Love Them
It was my first "fine dining" experience-somewhere between 10 and 20 courses with a bottle of wine for each. We were celebrating, thanks to the gracious manager of a boutique wine shop where I once worked. The meal was at one of my favorite restaurants in the world. I'd picked a hell of a time to be a vegetarian. I was that vegetarian, and I sat across from a cured meat expert who ate prosciutto by laying it flat on his face like a hot shave towel so the lardo could melt into his bottom lip. He didn't just eat meat, he infused it like a tab of acid through his skin. READ MORE
Help Me, For I Have Pine Mouth!
From time to time, The Awl offers space to ordinary citizens to discuss their bizarre medical issues. This is one such time! READ MORE
The Breville Die-Cast 2-Slice Smart Toasterâ„¢
The Breville Die-Cast 2-Slice Smart Toaster™ is a profoundly heavy toaster. It never skids when one is retrieving a piece of toast or inserting a piece of bread that is to become toast. And the toast! What it does to white bread, when the "toastiness" slider is set to somewhere between 3 and 4 on its 5-point infinite scale, is create a toast product that should be painted in oils to be rendered for posterity. The bread; it glows, the vertical striping is subtle but gives one that cozy, toasty feeling. What it does to Pepperidge Farm's "Jewish RYE Bread Seeded" (as it is called on the package) is exquisite; the little Jewish seeds want to pop open in the heat but do not. READ MORE
Meet Your Vegetables: The Farmers Market in Winter
By this time of year, the Inwood farmers market is a slim affair. Never particularly expansive even in the summer, the shoppers and sellers have dwindled. There is a trickle of, I don't know, either hardcore locavores or devotees of the greenmarket social scene, the urban hippie parents catching up on neighborhood gossip and scheduling playdates. There is local wine and local seafood and apple turnovers the size of your face. I don't know if those are made with local flour, and I've always worried it would be an asshole move to ask. READ MORE
