Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cooking. Show all posts

Friday, December 08, 2006

Rejoice, my follow kitchen nerds!

Logging into Blogger today to post about something completely unrelated, I saw a notice from Google that they've hooked up with Harold McGee for a cooking blog.

Wait, you ask, who's Harold McGee? Only the author of the most badass cooking science book ever, that's who! His opus, "On Food and Cooking," is the definitive text on kitchen science. It's not a light read (for that, I'd recommend this one), but it's a milestone in ushering in an era of food science that debunks centuries of kitchen myths.

(You'll also see it pop up often in episodes of Good Eats when Alton Brown is consulting his library.)

Anyway, check out McGee's blog, Curious Cook to get your food learnin'.

Monday, November 20, 2006

Ka-boom.

So I've always heard those cautionary tales about not burning down your home with a turkey fryer, but I can't say anything drove the lesson home quite like our friend Alton Brown.

If you haven't seen the fried-turkey "Good Eats" episode (or heck, even if you have), fast forward to the 2:30 mark in this video clip to see what could go so dramatically wrong in your driveway: