Dunkin Donuts was always the 400 pound gorilla of the doughnut world, no matter what it looked like in the Krispy Kreme boom years (DD had well over ten times as many locations: 5,000 vs. 400). But triple the number of Dunkin’ Donuts shops by 2020? If they say so.
READ ONThe wife has been asking for chocolate croissants for months now, and I’ve continually put her off. Well, I can do so no longer. But it’s not easy to find a good online recipe for chocolate croissants to link to. My favorite croissant dough recipe is from the contemporary classic Baking with Julia. I did […]
READ ONThe most accomplished chef in America, chef/owner of the French Laundry, Bouchon, and Per Se is opening a burger joint? Good for him!
READ ONBut not to worry, I’ll make the list next year (obviously, it’s highly selective). Some of the sites he included are really terrific, yet I couldn’t help but notice that not one of the blogs posts with the regularity of yours truly. (Ehem.)
READ ONIt seems the media has a hard time talking about any subject in non-hysterical terms, and bananas are no different. Every so often you see a story pop up in the food press about the imminent “extinction” of the banana. What’s the real story here? Well my friends, I’m about to tell you. What food […]
READ ONMy usual long morning post went by the wayside this morning, as I spent the dawn hours at a taping of a new Food Network show, Culinary Claim to Fame. It’s something of an odd concept, whereby offbeat professionals and/or gifted amateurs are given what amounts to their own single-episode cooking show. In today’s case […]
READ ONSeems the chocolate industry has some rather interesting things in mind for us this next year or so.
READ ONIf I see one more recipe that suggests subsituting a tuna can for a pastry or muffin ring, why I’ll… Maybe ten or fifteen years ago you could have done it: cut the bottom out of a can to make a cheap and easy mold. But not anymore. No, packaging designers have seen to that. […]
READ ONLittle Josephine pastry is happily chewing away on a fresh English muffin even as we speak, er…you know what I mean. The recipe came out well, though not nearly as well as it might have done save for three things. One, the fact that I didn’t have an ice cream scoop of the right size. […]
READ ONHow it enriches our lives. (Thanks to Sally at Tip of the Iceberg. Nice Impala!)
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