Once again, epicurious provides links that amuse and delight. This time they point the way to the Fake Gordon Ramsey blog. Go. Read. Laugh.

Slashfood (who really ought to come out with a calendar of Foodie Holidays) tells us that today is National French Toast Day! As it happens, my mother makes a fantastic creme brulee French toast. There are a number of places where such a recipe appears and they are all roughly the same. It’s a great “Weekend Guests” breakfast. Delicious, gorgeous and relatively easy. Just don’t think to much about the calorie count.

If you’re not ready for breakfast – ’cause you’re still up from the night before, it’s possible you have discovered the age of the cocktail parlor. According to the LA Times (so really, it may have no resemblance to the cocktail culture anywhere else), there is a cocktail renaissance going on and it’s all about behavior and policies.
Really? I thought the cocktail renaissance was all down to the reintroduction of absinthe. Oh, you didn’t know? My dears – it’s all anyone is talking about. At least on NPR.

And a quick round of culinary site seeing:

• New York Magazine’s food blog, Grub Street: a great favorite of mine and a good read. They’ve also been snickering at the fake Gordon blog.
• Mouthing Off, one of the blogs from Food and Wine magazine.
• I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned The Food Section before but even if I have, it’s worth mentioning again.
• The Food Museum Blog – which I actually found not through The Food Museum website but through The Food Section (which has led me all sorts of delicious places). Don’t get me wrong. I like The Food Museum – I just seem to have come to it slightly backwards