This handy infographic is for my charming wife, who sees nothing wrong with using the boning knife as a screwdriver or chopping vegetables with a paring knife.
The annual Paris Cookbook Fair tradeshow was held earlier this month, and Fast Company says that cookbook sales were up 10% in the U.S. and Europe in 2010.
I don’t know why, but I would have expected Attilla The Hun to be a big red wine kind of guy. This post from a group blog called Poemas del rio Wang offers a glimpse of what you might find on the wine shelves in your average supermarket in Azerbaijan. I wonder if they carry wine-in-a-pouch there, too.
Here’s a few kitchen products and reviews for your information and consideration:
- Serious Eats looked at a number of cookie sheets to see which ones they liked best and concluded that your basic no-frills aluminum half-sheet pan from Nordic Ware is still the best all-around choice.
- This 3-in-1 peeler got some attention when it came out a few months ago, mostly for its coolio design, but I have to say it seems to me like one of those things that looks a lot better than it performs, and the 2-star review on Amazon doesn’t dissuade me of that.
- Remember the Anal-Retentive Chef from Saturday Night Live? He would have LOVED this cutting board, which has gridded rulers and angles on it so you can keep every single bit of your mirepoix diced EXACTLY the same size. But does it come with its own cutting board cozy for storage?
My blog-buddies at GenXtinct caught wind of an Internet rumor that Quaker Foods was going to stop making Cap’n Crunch cereal, but they say that Quaker also heard about it and has launched a bit of a PR campaign to restore the brand’s awareness, including the inescapable Facebook page. I don’t know about you, but I would absolutely shell out four bucks for a bad-ass box of premium Cap’n Crunch like the picture above.
