Close up of @atticamelbourne's Smashed Avo on Toast. Photo by the incredible @colinpagephoto A photo posted by Ben Shewry (@benshewry) on Oct 18, 2016 at 5:23pm PDT There’s something in this article about how “dirty” food is for the rich and stupid that needs expanding on: how it builds cultural capital to eat trashy food… Continue reading Five Links on Friday – 21 October 2016
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Five links on Friday – 16 September 2016
Is nothing sacred? A table at Noma played Pokemon Go for their entire meal. https://t.co/fsvcAipgsD pic.twitter.com/cf0qfBYgA8 — Food & Wine (@foodandwine) July 20, 2016 I’ve never really been tempted back into the food industry after doing the low-level hard work at its edges. Nick Paumgarten’s review of Damon Baehrel’s home restaurant tempts me. He’s cooking… Continue reading Five links on Friday – 16 September 2016
Cooking Show Name Generator
Over the last month, some desperate TV exec has been googling for “Cooking Show Name Generator” and landing on my site, only to be disappointed by my most popular post, The Billy Bragg Safeword Generator. Just in case you’re not in need of a safe word, generate yourself a new cooking reality show by pressing… Continue reading Cooking Show Name Generator
The definitive oral history of the lobster roll
[link_content]The definitive oral history of the lobster roll.[/link_content]
This photo of suggestive bananas has sat in my “Drafts” for 6 years
I took this photo in Japan in 2010 and ever since it has been sitting in my drafts awaiting a lewd caption. Let this be an object lesson in my abject failure to craft a worthy pun.
Why do restaurants fail?
For a few years I’ve been mulling over whether to start a restaurant deadpool because there are obvious signs that places will fail before they have torn the butcher’s paper down from their windows to reveal their fresh circus-themed French diner fitout. The most obvious is if a string of restaurants have already failed in… Continue reading Why do restaurants fail?
The best time to start blogging is now.
The Flickr Curve. Something I discovered pretty early on in managing social media is that the lifecycle of most social media channels follow the Flickr curve. There is the same shape to search volume on Google over time: 3 years of growth followed by slow decline. Even successful ones, like Facebook They do so for… Continue reading The best time to start blogging is now.
Five links on Friday – 8 August 2016
this "tartine" is just . . . hummus and tomato on a piece of toast: https://t.co/GS85FVdfjA — Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) August 3, 2016 “Every coffee place looks the same,” Schwarzmann says. The new cafe resembles all the other coffee shops Foursquare suggests, whether in Odessa, Beijing, Los Angeles, or Seoul: the same raw wood… Continue reading Five links on Friday – 8 August 2016