Food Watch

Food Watch: An interesting exchange between the NYT critic and a Bay Area restaurateur

LocoL creators Daniel Patterson and Roy Choi [click to enlarge]by KenI don't know quite what to make of this story, but I know there's something interesting about it, something worth thinking about a little, and so I'm just going to dish the story out in its three steps and leave it to you to make of it what you will.It's certainly possible that Tasting Table and TT correspondent Alison Spiegel have it right.

Food Watch: 18 grilled-cheese sandwiches made all at once? That sounds like sorcery!

by KenLet's say you saw a tease like the one above. No, let's say you saw the tease above. Are you going to tell me you wouldn't click through? Come on, 18 grilled-cheese sandwiches made all at once! That's not worth a click? Heck, you don't even have to like grilled-cheese sandwiches to want to see this trick performed. 18 at once?

Food Watch: 23 minutes with legitimately legendary food writer Mimi Sheraton

by KenThe other day I was making an effort to tame my monstrously swollen e-mail inbox, and came across this podcast from WNYC's "The Sporkful" (which boasts that "it's for eaters, not for foodies"), in which "Sporkful" keeper Dan Pashman interviewed the legendary food critic and writer Mimi Sheraton live onstage at the Food Book Fair in Brooklyn in May.

Food (and Technology) Watch: "Costco pizza-saucing is the most mesmerizing thing you'll see all day" (Thrillist's Lucy Meilus)

Take the Costco Pizza-Saucing Machine Test:Bet you can't watch just onceby KenI've classed this originally as a "Food Watch" dispatch but felt it necessary to add the "(and Technology)," since it can unquestionably be argued that the function performed by this gizmo is of greater mechanical than gastronomic interest.The clip has been around since January, I see, but it would never have occurred to me to go looking for it if it hadn't just appeared (or reappeared?) on Thrillist under the title I've im

Business Watch: The K-cup people "K-capitulate" (not my pun!), reopening their closed 2.0 system to strange un-pre-cupped coffee

The Breakfast Blend is a light roast, and so has practically no flavor (is breakfast time a "no flavor" zone?), but Green Mountain sells a quite drinkable medium-roast Vermont Country Blend -- and a dark-roast French Roast for people who've been trained by Starbucks to prefer their coffee beans roasted till they screech for mercy.by KenSince my only contact with Keurig-style coffee-making is in the office, where we have a very nice machine, but one that's apparently first-ge