February 2012
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For those of you into bacon + macarons + the East... →
The Macaron Parlour is coming to town. More specifically, to St. Mark’s Place.
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“Peanut butter is the crack cocaine of the culinary world.”
– Frank Bruni in Serious Eats (via thatluciegirl)
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Paula Deen Says She’s Slimmin’ Down →
After telling Today last week that some people were “mean” when she announced her diabetes medication deal, Paula Deen today tells People that she’s not combating her diabetes diagnosis with drugs alone. She’s also dieting and exercising! “I’ve dropped two pant sizes and I feel great!” she tells the magazine. The story says her fitness routine...
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Just started the Hunger Games
…and I’m already obsessed.
(I totally realize I’m late to the party on this one. Oh well. Here’s to catching up.)
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I had a dream the other night...
…that Steve Scafidi was teaching me (and a bunch of other familiar faces) to dance the two-step. Of course, nothing about this dream really made sense considering Steve is a West Virginian cabinet maker slash poet. He taught a couple of my creative writing classes in school, and was (easily) one of my favorites. If you have any interest, I...
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Lame fact of the day
The New Haven train station’s wireless classifies the tumblr site as pornography.
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Receiptrocity
Have you guys checked out Receiptrocity on Eater.com? It’s a blog that claims to bring the “strangest and most entertaining receipts America’s restaurants have to offer.”
And wouldn’t you know it, they take submissions. So next time your receipt makes you do a double take (like the one above), send it over to national@eater.com
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Work internet is down today...
…which means none of us have anything to do. Or rather, none of us can get anything done. So, we’re having a leisurely lunch out. When does that ever happen?
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For you craft beer drinkers...
If you haven’t already, check out Beerjobber. It’s a pretty cool idea. You can order from their selection of craft beers online, and then they’ll pick it up from the brewery and deliver it straight to your door.
Also besides being a cool idea, they have some pretty good marketing lingo behind it.
From their site: Before prohibition, a...
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skillshare, part 2
On Tuesday night, I made my way to the offices of taap it for my second Skillshare class. This time, the subject was programming.
Now, if you know me (or even if you don’t) you know that programming is not right up my alley. But, after playing around with Codecademy, and liking it, I decided why not try to learn it? I’ve been in one of those moods lately.
The class was taught by a...
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Taco Bell Will Unleash Their Doritos Tacos on... →
Everyone who follows such things probably already knew that Taco Bell’s latest gimmick (besides trying to get everyone to call breakfast “first meal”) was a taco that came in an oversize Doritos shell. It’s either an abomination or a stroke of genius, depending on how you look at it, but whatever your opinion, you should know that it will be available to stoners around the...
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"Good-bye, Viagra; hello, kombucha"
Grub Street reported yesterday that the old Pfizer plant on Flushing Ave will soon become a culinary production facility. Kombucha Brooklyn, Brooklyn Soda Works and Steve’s Ice Cream have already taken up shop.
Read the full story here.
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Perilla (I'll be dreaming about those pickles...)
Admittedly, I’m a little late wrapping up my restaurant week adventures, but I was disappointed in my last stop at Perilla, and I didn’t want to be.
Perilla is Harold Dieterle’s first restaurant in the west village. As a long time Top Chef fan, I’ve been wanting to go to Perilla since Harold opened it up in 2007…even though I’ve heard better things about his...
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Jargon Madness →
The next time you feel the need to reach out, touch base, shift a paradigm, leverage a best practice or join a tiger team, by all means do it. Just don’t say you’re doing it. Because—and please believe us—all that meaningless business jargon makes you sound like a complete moron. To help rid the earth of this poisonous gobbledygook, we crafted a bracket, similar to the NCAA college...
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who knew I could be such a tech nerd?
I am officially obsessed with Codecademy. It’s actually surprisingly fun, and I can’t help but keep going. I WILL learn programming.
(Um, who am I? What happened to the girl with her nose buried in a book?)
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