New Foods Blog

This week’s issue of the New Yorker has a great piece about Brett Ottolenghi, proprietor of Artisanal Foods in Las Vegas and something of a huckster-to-the-stars of high-end dining. In Dana Goodyear’s profile, we follow the twentysomething Ottolenghi — who’s been selling truffles and fine foods on the web since he was a kid — [...]
never miss a day, thanks for the blog

A Full Plate Café’s 4th Annual Rib Cook Off will be back this year on September 11th, and each year, the competition, which is quickly becoming a NoLibs staple, seems to get a little more stiff. This year, according to Full Plate’s Shannon Dougherty, there’s some changes in store. Among them:
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if people only knew

We know that we should be scared of this — like CLOWN-SCARED — but we just can’t be. Red Stripe Man, we want to, we must, party with you. Sooner rather than later.

maybe this will change things

Spotted on the boardwalk in good ol’ North Wildwood. We like the approach.

this is bogus, who would think

File this one under Ways To Ease into Fall: Le Meridien’s $30 three-martini lunch. From now until the end of September, the hotel’s Amuse restaurant will be serving onion soup, steak frites and three martinis of your choice every lunch hour (11:30-2 p.m.). And since you’re getting three, there are plenty of choices: The Dirty [...]
so interesting

Philly fellow Daniel McLaughlin (pictured) is taking on 12 mainstream diets this year, one for each month. The diets range from played out (Atkins, The Zone) to practical (Minimum Wage) to WTF? (Blood Type Diet). He chronicles his travails on his pet project’s site, The Thirteenth Diet. McLaughlin’s goal is to come up with a [...]
thanks for delivering this story to me

If you’ve got some time to spare, a passion for cooking and a “personality that pops,” why not swing on by the Next Food Network Star casting call next Tuesday, Aug. 30, from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.? It’s at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel at 12th and Market. All you need to bring is two [...]
does anyone know the real story

If you can’t go home for Rosh Hashanah (or if you can but would prefer not to…), Delicatessen is here for you. They’ll be serving a $25 four-course Rosh Hashanah feast on Sept. 8 (reservations required). A mini menu preview shows that Delicatessen will be doing their customary novel takes on traditional dishes like Matzoh [...]
great news thought i would never see this.

Oyster House’s lobster roll is just begging to be devoured. That’s all the meat from a 1.5 lb. lobster (straight from Maine), tossed in the restaurant’s signature dressing, sandwiched between a buttered, toasted split top roll and topped with scallions. The Inky’s Rick Nichols has already fallen in love with it, so really, what are [...]
it should be interested what change will this make

Says our tipster: “The PPA has confiscated West Philly’s Buttercream Cupcake Truck in some sort of dispute over where she is allowed to do business. Seems heavyhanded in the same vein as the Pennsylvania State Police raiding hipster bars for improperly registered doppel bocks and lambics.” Obviously, there’s some confusion about whether it’s L&I or [...]
wonder what this really means