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Hot Links: A pie chart of what we eat, food podcasts, Meaty Monday Madness
MMM goes national: Olympic gold-medal swimmer and Austin food blogger Garrett Weber-Gale has a post on BonAppetit.com about Meaty Monday Madness, a monthly potluck for restaurant industry folks at the house of Mulberry chef Zack Northcutt (center). (The M.O.’s Matthew Odam wrote a story last fall about this underground dinner club, but the sexy pictures by Katrina Perry on Garrett’s post really do the party justice.)
Farewell, Brad: After getting kicked off the show with just a few episodes left, it looks like Austin cook Brad Sorenson won’t be the “Next Food Network Star” after all. Slashfood has a post-show Q&A with him, in which he talks about cooking at Asti Trattoria.
Maybe he’s a robot: The funniest Q&A of the week goes to Joshua David Stein at Eater who, after suffering through the PR speak of one of the most recognizable faces on Food Network, calls out Tyler Florence for only speaking “marketingese”.
Michael Batterberry: Founder of Food Arts and Food and Wine magazines, died last week.
Have a listen: Chocolate and Zucchini shares six of her favorite food podcasts.
Does this look anything like the USDA food pyramid? Americans, on average, eat 2,000 pounds of food a year. What exactly do we eat? Let Visual Economics show you.
Geek wear: San Diego’s massive Comic Con is over, but the Kitchn’s post on geeky and sci-fi kitchen finds is still as cool to nerd foodies around the world.
Selling the family farm: A New Hampshire farm that has been in the same family since 1632 is now on the market for $3.35 million.
Cheese-O! Rachael Ray, in Cheetos.
Non-restaurant social coupons: Slashfood points us to Blackboard Eats, which is essentially the Groupon for artisan food products and gifts like coffee and a lobster of the month club.
Ice balls: Ideas in Food shows us how to make spheres of ice without fancy equipment.
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Food report: Stephen Colbert is as hip to the food news (foot-long cheeseburgers, Lucky Charms, etc.) as Eater. Well, almost.
Life after ‘Gourmet’: Looking for a new food magazine to read? Tasting Table tells us about four new ‘zines, and Swallow makes its grand debut with the help of Eater.
I’m a piglet: Via Austin Food Journal, gluttony pants.
Hunger no more: If you liked that Esquire profile of Roger Ebert in March, you’ll enjoy this piece on Utne about the psychological effects of losing your appetite written by a man who has also can’t eat food.
Frozen market: NPR tells us what local paleta company Good Pops already knew: Ice pops are so cool right now.
Call me Abby: Also from NPR, a fun piece about the made-up “coffee names” that people, often those with uncommon given names, use at places like Starbucks.
Do you want local fries with that? Grist chimes in on McDonald’s latest “localwashing” campaign in Washington state.
More farmers markets: The USDA reports that there are 16 percent more farmers markets in the U.S. than there were last year. That’s almost 900 new markets in 12 months.
Puttingweirdthingsincoffee.com: And you thought putting salt in coffee was strange.
Tony’s tunes: Anthony Bourdain’s guest DJ set on KCRW.
Photos from Katrina Perry, Christian Bowers, Slashfood, Grist and Ideas in Food.
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