Our friends over at Chronicle Books are sharing an excerpt from Joanne Chang’s book, Flour. She’s created a recipe for making your own, homemade Oreos — via CRAFT
The pungent smell of roasting chillies in an apartment building sent four people in the Finnish city of Espoo to the hospital on Monday with respiratory problems.
Rescue workers had to use gas masks to get up to the top floors where the smell was coming from,
rescue services spokesman Mika Maekelae told AFP, saying the smokeless odour was akin to pepper spray.
The first rescue worker who entered the building had a bad coughing fit and trouble breathing, he added.
Inside the apartment, rescue workers found an oven full of burnt whole chillies, which the occupant had forgotten — via richardfarner.newsvine.com
I mean this literally: this tart is loaded with butter and eggs, so if your cholesterol is already high, beware! As an occasion indulgence it is well worth it. The crust is quick and easy to make, and it is crumbly but still holds its shape. The filling has a strong, smooth, and invigorating citrus flavor, with great texture. Active preparation time is only about 1 hour, and it can be made ahead of time with no last minute preparations, which makes it ideal for dinner parties — via Instructables
This is a really great time of year to buy oranges, navals go on sale for really awesome prices around this time of year. You can do more with them than just peel and eat them. Here’s an old recipe I found in Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
By Marion Harland. This book was originally published in 1871, so it’s in the public domain now. In fact, here’s the recipe, viewable on Google Books — via Instructables
As Geoff mentioned here on BLDGBLOG a few weeks ago, we spent our last full day in Australia touring the Li-Sun Exotic Mushroom Farm with its founder and owner, Dr Noel Arrold. Three weeks earlier, at a Sydney farmers’ market, we had been buying handfuls of his delicious Shimeji and Chestnut mushrooms to make a risotto, when the vendor told us that they’d all been grown in a disused railway tunnel southwest of the city, in Mittagong — via BLDGBLOG
Amy has some seriously awesome friends. They created this knitting basket birthday cake for her, and hand placed every strand of yarn and created a true woven basket for the base. It would be hard to eat this beautiful creation — via CRAFT
A German vintner acting on a hunch uncovered a hidden trove of wine untouched since 1945 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An outbreak of salmonella linked to a bakery in Sydney’s west is being investigated by the State Government’s public health unit — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest wine-making facility ever found, using biochemical techniques to identify a dry red vintage made about 6,000 years ago in what is now southern Armenia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS One, suggests that a move towards insect farming could result in a more sustainable – and affordable – form of meat production — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Tiffany of Art Food and Motherhood shows you how to make swedish pancakes with whole wheat pastry and barley flours. According to Tiffany They are richer, thinner, but moister than a traditional pancake
. Try them out for brunch this weekend! — via CRAFT
Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay was doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint as he tried to uncover the dark world of illegal shark fin trading for a new TV show — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In this latest Cool Hunting Video, we visit Brooklyn to tour the Mast Brothers’ bean-to-bar chocolate factory—one of just a handful in the US. The chocolatiers, Rick and Michael Mast, walk us through their uniquely intensive process, DIY machines, and a little of their food philosophy — via Cool Hunting
Australians may have consumed a lot of food over the Christmas weekend but it is unlikely many thought about eating hemp — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Melodie and her friend, Brenton, designed this gorgeous piece of edible architecture using Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater as a model. It took over 12 hours to design and 40 hours to build and decorate and used 12 square feet of gingerbread dough to make the walls, floors and roof. This iconic home has never looked sweeter — via Neatorama
A group of academics is proposing a system of underground tunnels which could deliver food and other goods in all weathers with massive energy savings.
The Foodtubes group wants to put goods in metal capsules 2m long, which are shifted through underground polyethylene tubes at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour, directed by linear induction motors and routed by intelligent software to their destinations — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The harvesting of cocoa beans is in decline, the Nature Conservation Research Council warns, meaning the afternoon chocolate fix could become a costly indulgence — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Debbie Wright invented this culinary delight. The batter and frosting are both made of oreos, and there’s an oreo resting at the bottom of the cake. Finally, it’s topped with a mini oreo — via Neatorama
What were to happen if your recipe card was just one illustrated diagram? Katie Shelly is trying it out with Picture Cook, a project to inspire experimentation, improvisation, and play in the kitchen
. Her whimsical drawings give a new perspective on cooking — via CRAFT
May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It’s a possibility, some archaeologists say. Signs that people went to great lengths to obtain grains despite the hard work needed to make them edible, plus the knowledge that feasts were important community-building gatherings, support the idea that cereal grains were being turned into beer, said archaeologist Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Beer is sacred stuff in most traditional societies,
said Hayden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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