Don't forget that sipper.
With events happening all around the city this weekend, it’s more than just geographical proximity that will be a factor in picking which festival to visit. It’s all about the food, now isn’t it? There will be food trucks in Kensington, Center City favs on Walnut, Italian specialties on 9th Street and BBQ in South Philadelphia. Details ahead.
How our clocks look after sixteen hours of fasting.
Finally, science is figuring out how we're going to shrink our guts and end the nation's obesity epidemic: We simply have to stop eating for sixteen hours at a time, every day, for the rest of our lives. The approach really seems to be working for mice, anyway. A new study by the Salk Institute finds that mice restricted to eating a high-calorie diet only during an active eight-hour period, then refused food during the rest of the day, are nearly as trim as a sample of mice kept on a low-calorie, low-fat diet. (A third group of mice could eat whatever they wanted, whenever they wanted, and they quickly became a bunch of fatasses.) "We have to come up with something that is a simple alternative to calorie counting," the study's lead biologist tells the L.A. Times. And while starving ourselves is easier than counting calories, it's also idiotic.
Cézanne's The Card Players; they look hungry.
In case you hadn’t heard, the Barnes is built, stocked with more French impressionists than you can shake a stick at, and it’s ready to open. Once you’ve made your way to the Parkway for an afternoon of musing, take the opportunity to check out the area’s dining scene.
The chef, in happier times.Photo: Daily Telegraph
This is slimy: In Cornwall, England, a jilted landlord tried to flood a restaurant with grease to get revenge on his chef tenant. The chef in question is Michelin winner Kevin Viner, a tabloid fixture in Britain for his "celebrity lifestyle" and charismatic ways. Apparently the once-jolly Viner had long feared his loose-canon landlord, Eric Randle: "I was crying all the time. I was in a state. I had put my whole future into the restaurant. I am a reputable chef and my life has been destroyed."
While the volume consumed often has more to do with a next-day hangover, sometimes it really is the wine’s fault. Sulfites that are added in for preservation purposes can sometimes have adverse affects, like headaches, or allergic reactions. The solution? Drink less wine. Find a sulfite-free wine. Like the ones stocked on a.kitchen’s wine list. They have some new ones for the spring. And some dish suggestions. You know, to put down a base.
Safeway is in the process of cleaning up two aisles of shit-storm after a butcher was fired, rather than admired, for saving a pregnant woman from being kicked in the stomach — a backwards move that customers across the country are vociferously outraged by. Then, at Safeway’s annual shareholder meeting, senior vice-president and general counsel Robert Gordon made a stupid and offensive joke that equated Hillary Clinton and Nancy Pelosi to "hogs," and now he's on the express line to demotion. [Slate]
BYO (gluten-free) Bread
South Philly Tap Room’s Scott Schroeder is pretty busy this week, what with the Wheat Beer Festival on Saturday. But just because this weekend’s event isn’t the best place for a celiac sufferer, doesn’t mean Schroeder forgot about his gluten-free peeps.
So vintage.Photo: dunkindonuts/Instagram via Gizmodo
Do you enjoy gazing at photos of mass-produced pastries illuminated with hazy vintage lighting? If so, Dunkin' Donuts' Instagram photo stream is for you! Gizmodo ranks them as a must-follow, alongside luminaries including Newt Gingrich, Mike Tyson, and MC Hammer.
In response to yesterday's story in which we imagined the rock-star equivalents for a couple dozen famous chefs, one of Grub Street San Francisco's followers, dubbed the Dapper Diner, replied with a zinger about our Alice Waters/Joni Mitchell comparison. "Alice Waters would be Milli Vanilli ... is she really a chef?" Now, this discussion of whether Waters was ever truly a chef so much as a restaurateur has dogged her a lot over the years, and most people are pretty well over it. But this prompted newly minted Twitter addict Jeremiah Tower (who just announced plans to publicly cook in San Francisco for the first time in over a decade) to chime in regarding his old friend Alice.
“Pizza is alright”
The food is alright... there honestly is no "atmosphere" since it consists of just an oven, two small tables and a television.
“Everything a restaurant should be!”
Others talk the talk, Derek has always walked the walk.
“My other spot”
When it comes to the generals...(chicken that is) they'll make you sign up for recruitment
