A Few Of Our Favorite Links

Though we wander the internet all day reading about new trends, restaurants, “chefscapades,” and other news, we realize you may not have quite as much time on your hands, so we’ve decided to compile a list of our favorite stories each week, posted on every food-centric site from Eater, Grub Street, Village Voice Serious Eats, to the New York Times. After all, the food world is just as exciting and turbulent (if not more) than the real world.

This week, we especially loved Elle Magazine’s piece on “Food Bloggers Who Turn Their Passion Into A Career”, featuring Eater NY’s editor, Amanda Kludt.  If you’ve ever wondered how to make it happen, you can read how 101cookbooks, Tartelette & Goodies First made it happen, too.  Just as good was Alan Sytsma’s recap of Top Chef Masters on Grub Street NY, although we may be a little biased since we had the pleasure of dining and judging this week’s episode with him.  Hats off to Grub Street for also assembling a killer “Pasta Porn List“, which we could easily waste all day looking at.   We loved Ten Things To  Do With Peeps from Serious Eats, which included making Peepshi (short for peep sushi), pizza, rice krispie peep treats and our favorite, peep s’mores. We’re grateful to Amateur Gourmet for his very user-friendly adaptation of Mark Ladner’s of Del Posto fame’s Spaghetti Cacio e Pepe recipe.  

There was San Pellegrino’s Annual List of Top 50 Restaurants In the World, the Feast’s useful feature on Best Places for a Food-Focused Wedding Rehearsal Dinner in New York and Ryan Sutton’s entertaining review of Grant Achatz’s (Alinea) newest venture, entitled “Chicago Derivates Trader’s $2500 Menu at Next”.

Stay tuned for next week as we review Sam Talbot’s new Soho spot, Imperial No. 9 and go behind kitchen doors with chef-owner of Porsena, Sara Jenkins, who happens to make our favorite rendition of porchetta in the country. Fact.