German airmen have been catching some heat for making Blotwurst sausages using human blood from compatriots. Everything was fine until some fellow soldiers started to complain:
The incident only came to the attention of senior officers after one of their fellow soldiers reported the fact that he had been asked to donate some blood for the [...]

An hour long discussion with Anthony Bourdain, moderated by Google Executive Chef Nate Keller. The story about Billy Joel is great.

I like the walk-thru — a few years back Carolyn and I wanted to perfect the baked potato and this guide would have been super helpful. It also likely generates some decent Google AdSense dollars for the owner.

So you want to know the best way to bake a potato? Golden, crispy brown skins and soft, [...]

2.0 Somethings, desperate for the dozens of dozens of readers who frequent Dethroner every day, passed on this alert:
Though we just got back from our most recent culinary adventure, the 2.0somethings crew is already gearing up for our spring break plans: The First Annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival in Des Moines, Iowa. The festival will [...]

I don’t know if you’ve been following it or not, but apparently that Food Network twat Robert Irvine is a rat-faced liar. All his self-proclaimed achievements, such as being a Knight or working in the White House kitchen, have turned out to be fabrications. Plus he’s screwed some people on several restaurant development projects!
Serious Eats [...]

There’s nothing wrong with eating squirrel (although it’s some of my least favorite game meat). But that doesn’t make the soft focus cooking of Heidi “The Huntress” Wilson, star of an old Outdoor Channel television show, any less disturbing. I know she’s just trying to make eating squirrel seem like a normal American pastime, but [...]

Hands down, Macaroni and Cheese must be one of the world’s greatest comfort foods. A few years back Carolyn and I decided to look for the “Greatest Mac and Cheese recipe of all time.” While I’m not sure this White House Kitchen recipe is the one, it was good enough that we stopped looking! You [...]

Most of the advice John Mariani gives in this “How to Take a Woman to Dinner” piece on Esquire is antiquated crap—don’t go Dutch? Stand when she leaves and returns to the table? That kind of behavior is for after you’re in a relationship, not at the beginning—but I did like this one bit of [...]

At a news conference in Brooklyn, state Atty. Gen. Andrew M. Cuomo said the arrests served as a message that “organized crime still exits. . . . We like to think it’s a vestige of the past. It’s not. It is as unrelenting as weeds that continue to sprout in the cracks of society.
Seems the [...]

According to a report detailed by the Times, double-dipping your chip back into the dip does indeed send your menagerie of mouth monsters back into the French onion slop. Don’t do it.
On average, the students found that three to six double dips transferred about 10,000 bacteria from the eater’s mouth to the remaining dip.
Each cracker [...]

Two interesting pieces came on my radar this weekend. I’m not about to give up meat entirely, but it has become less and less of my diet of late, and after my birthday early next month, I’m probably going to end up cutting it out almost entirely for a couple of months while I work [...]