dbreunig:murketing:Retro Thing: Coca-Cola History They should re-release that 1899 bottle, cork and all.
3 days ago
November 18, 2009
November 17, 2009
November 15, 2009
So this is happening later:
My friends Dave and Courtney are expecting their first child in the next week or so. Ben and I are having dinner with them tonight at Caioti Pizza Cafe on Tujunga, so Courtney can have the Labor Salad.
When Dave told me this, my response, like yours, was: Oh. Okay. What?
Apparently there’s a salad at Caioti that is known to induce labor. It’s something in the dressing. Women go in, have the salad, and boom: baby*. It’s not even on the menu- you just go in and they know. It’s common knowledge among the women of LA, evidently.
*You do, I think, have to be pregnant for it to work.
Famous bit of LA restaurant lore, and true to boot.
6 days ago
November 13, 2009
“ Oh. If you were from Asia, this would be a really unusual pie.
Martha Stewart, to an Asian woman who baked an apple pie; previously, when Martha asked the woman where she was from, the woman had responded, “New York.” (via chrismohney)
Get it together, Martha.
1 week ago
November 12, 2009
“ Wild hare is strong meat: Cooked like this, it develops the divine stink of the woods in fall, of distant gunpowder, of erotic practices illegal in several Midwestern states.
Jonathan Gold on Bistro LQ, where they serve ant eggs, wild-boar sopes, baby-goat burritos, frog legs in barbecue sauce and a chutney with begonias and wood violets, oatmeal with lobster, and eel with grits. (via spiegelman) (via yumwatch)
Jonathan Gold, always with the sex.
1 week ago
November 11, 2009
Eating East
In honor of the Gold Line Eastside Extension, set to open Sunday, the L.A. Times rounds up the best food along the six-mile route from Little Tokyo to East L.A.
Neato. Surprised to find Purgatory on the list - has it improved in the last year? Anyway, you can bet this will become a foodie trek.
1 week ago
I’m going to take away your internets if you people insist on using them like this.
First LOL of the day.
1 week ago
November 10, 2009
fek:
No fucking way.
Chang pulls out some bullshit that me and friend (who’s got a few hundred more of their burgers in his past) had never heard of: chile peppers. They came two to a sealed plastic bag and were unnaturally yellow and picturesque. And spicy! Damn.
The David Chang/Peter Meehan blog continues to live up to expectations. In-N-Out has peppers? What? Also, this, from the comments:
A tip for the In-N-Out fries. I always order them “lightly well done” and they resemble pommes frites. Well done fries are a little too crispy.
I had no idea they’d cater to your fry-cooking preference. Impressive. In-N-Out’s Skulls-like secret culture of ordering is full of surprises.
None of these things are surprising to a Californian, so, question: is there an East Coast equivalent, a chain that’s full of surprises? Does Five Guys have something up its sleeve?
1 week ago