1. Shopping for Fish (Bitten at New York Times) - Send a text message to Blue Ocean’s Fishphone with a fish and you'll get a message back about whether you should eat it.
2. French Fry Coated Hot Dog - They should have used the skinny fries
3. Gold Pills - Pop one of these and your schitt is golden
4. Martha Stewart Living's Prop Room - And to think that all I have is a set of white dinner plates and some wooden chopsticks.
5. The Dirty Tricks of Food Photographers - Hairspray, cotton balls, and...deodorant?
6. Food Court Musical - People in a mall food court break out into a musical.
7. Phone Salesman Amazes Crowd - I am now obsessed with a pudgy cell phone salesman
8. South Korea Swaps First Astronaut - A woman, because the man didn't know how to follow instructions
9. DIY Spice Rack - The $150 Dean & Deluca Spice Rack for...$30
10. Chef's Blogs, Even Sharper than Their Knives (Los Angeles Times) - Marriott Hotels has a food blog?!?!
11. Starbucks barista donates kidney to one of her regulars - Maybe Starbucks isn't the Evil Empire after all
12. Restaurants Feel the Bite of Stay at Home Moms - How about unemployed stay-at-home bloggers?
tags :: delicious dozen : food : and drink : news : blogs : blogging : reviews : los angeles
lillianb says
Oh, wow! That mobile phone salesman singing brought a handful of tears to my eyes. Thank you for sharing it!
KirkK says
Hi - Sarah...that food court musical!!! I'm still waiting for the tater tot coated hot dog...
KirkK says
Hi - Sarah...that food court musical!!! I'm still waiting for the tater tot coated hot dog...
H. C. says
Interesting article on food photography, though I watched a special from the Food Network once where all video food commercials has to actually be 100% edible. (Blowtorches are OK, not so much the motor oil & cottonballs; one producer lamented having to break open hundreds of frozen dinners to get all the perfect peas, meat & starch).
Anonymous says
if you guys liked the mobile phone salesman guy (who was amazing), check out youtube and enter his name. along the right side you'll see related clips to the runner-up - a 6 year old named connie. watch her initial try-out.
sarah says
kirkk: wow. tater tot coated hot dog. you realize now that I will dream about it tonight. WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME LIKE THIS?
h.c.: hey, who said motor oil isn't edible? haven't you ever actually eaten at mcdonald's?
anonymous: i watched ALL those videos, and to be quite honest, while connie is undeniably adorable, i didn't think she was particularly special in any of her performances. but man, that paul potts...
akatsukira says
Re: 5. The Dirty Tricks of Food Photographers.
Deodorant and cotton balls aren't so bad... I once saw a video of a food photographer using a microwaved tampon.