July 15th is National Tapioca Pudding Day. I have nothing to say on the subject. No, seriously. I have never had tapioca pudding. I have no intention of trying tapioca pudding. I don’t even like the word ‘tapioca.’ Call it a peccadillo. What I’d much rather discuss is what I’ve been reading – in this [...]

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Epicurious caught my eye with one of the oldest headline tricks in the book today. The old “top items list” stratagem. This time it was Top 20 Essential Wine Books. I don’t even care particularly about wine and I felt compelled to look. Sure, it might be my love of all things bibliocentric but it’s [...]

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The Cooking Calculator. Convert pounds to grams, gallons to liters, and Fahrenheit to centigrade. My favorite conversion – “wineglass to cup.” If you liked Foodie Fight, you’ll want to check out Celebrity Chef! The Board Game. And finally, the Great Chef’s of Turkey are uniting to “brand” Turkish food. What on earth does that mean? [...]

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The Food Snob’s Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Gastronomical Knowledge (Price: $10.36) A holiday must. I’m planning to get several as gifts. You know how it is. All your foodie friends spend the next few months trying to outdo each other by throwing parties, dinners and brunches They say it’s to ring in the holiday season but [...]

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 For the game players amongst us! Grab your cutlery and serving platters. This demands culinary cunning. The cards contain several categories each – like Trivial Pursuit cards – inlcluding ‘Dining Out’, ‘Foodisphere’, ‘Company’s Coming’, ‘What’s Cooking’, ‘Lab and Field’ and ‘Food Production.’

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