Tag: food

How To Make Cold Brew Coffee

~ Mark

austinkleon:

It’s June in Texas, which means my wife just made me my first mason jar full of cold brew coffee.

Cold-brewed coffee is actually dirt simple to make at home….But you can also bang it out with a Mason jar and a sieve. You just add water to coffee, stir, cover it and leave it out on the counter overnight. A quick two-step filtering the next day (strain the grounds through a sieve, and use a coffee filter to pick up silt), a dilution of the brew one-to-one with water, and you’re done. Except for the time it sits on the kitchen counter, the whole process takes about five minutes.

Bonus: recipe for New Orleans Cold Drip coffee.

This is also the season for cold-brew iced tea. Same method, folks. Just sayin’.

How To Make Cold Brew Coffee

Salt & Fat: Burgers

~ Mark

Here’s a trick that will make you the star of the grill — put a dimple in the middle of your patty. Just press your thumb about a quarter of the way into the top of your burgers and reshape as necessary. This will keep your burgers from ending up like little UFOs as they cook.

Salt & Fat: Burgers

Anthony Bourdain, unreserved – chicagotribune.com

~ Mark

An excellent interview in many respects. I like this bit:

How do you avoid cliche when you’ve already done so many shows?

We try to undermine whatever it was that worked last week. We deliberately set up difficult things to do. Using new lenses, constantly experimenting with new equipment to give it a more cinematic look — letterboxes, widescreen, gyros, cheap do-it-yourself kind of innovation. The editing styles. We think about movies that we loved that have been shot in this area that we might try to rip off. In the case in Rome, we’re going to do the whole thing in black and white, and in letterbox. Can we do really gorgeous food porn in black and white? It’s never been done.

Anthony Bourdain, unreserved – chicagotribune.com

Dinner is the theater as food paparazzi converge – latimes.com

~ Mark

News to me: “Nikon, Olympus and Sony sell cameras that offer ‘cuisine’ or ‘food’ settings, which adjust to enhance colors and textures on close-ups.”

And there’s this: “Lefebvre happily cooked a private dinner for 18 food bloggers. His wife set up a portable light box in a corner of the dining room. Even before the bread plates hit the table, the crowd went nuts. As each new dish arrived, the bloggers rushed over to the light box to get the shot, then returned to their seats.”

Dinner is the theater as food paparazzi converge – latimes.com

The Hungry Metropolis – Saveur.com

~ Mark

I’m to make my first trip to Los Angeles in just a couple weeks. I will bring my elastic pants.

Manhattan may boast the highest concentration of high-end restaurants in the world, and Singapore hawker centers may pack more joy into each square inch, but Los Angeles is the best place in the world to eat at the moment, a frieze of fine dining overlaying a huge patchwork of immigrant communities big enough and self-sustaining enough to produce exactly the food that they want to eat.

The Hungry Metropolis – Saveur.com