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So who thinks a good ole fashioned Hot Sauce Festival sounds like a good idea? I Do! I Do! I’m scouring Tampa for some volunteers. I’ve got the game plan, but I’ll need some assistance. No, you won’t need to quit your job in order to volunteer, but I do need some committed (preferably not [...] Mal Carne gets another crappy breakfast and tells us how to make gravy for your own home-made biscuits and gravy. *** The Urban Eater is writing kitchen lessons for single men, complete with cheesecake (the flesh kind) images. Don’t forget fellas, Black & Decker makes kitchen appliances. Oh, and don’t forget to load up on Playboy energy [...] I have two burger reviews in the pipeline, but work is absorbing nearly every moment of my day, and will continue to do so until April 11. April 12 I’m starting my Month of Cocktails! (To clarify. That doesn’t mean I won’t post until April, only that reviews have to take a back seat to other [...] I needed cheese. Something a little bit fancy. I decided this would be a good time to hit the Old World Cheese Shop and check it out. I had noticed it on my trips to Cilantro’s and told myself that the next time I needed cheese I’d try it out. Guess what the Old World Cheese [...] Blogger keeps eating my images. Stupid blogger. Brian Ries at Creative Loafing is holding a Hamburger Haiku contest. Eventually a winner will be selected and be rewarded a “big, fat prize. (Probably a burger.)” Start your haiku engines! My contributions were - cheeseburger childhoodbig mac and quarter pounderadult weight watcher mom and pop dinershamburger Americalonging for the past Hmmm, perhaps drinking would help. I don’t want to make this an all-burger, all the time blog, but some things are just too serendipitous not to post. Available here. From the description - “This cute little lunch box has three compartments. One for a sandwhich, one for a snack and one for a desert. … The perfect little lunch box to [...] JB loves images of unfortunate food and has quite a collection of distressing cookbooks. I think I might have to buy her this book. Browse through it at Google books. …I just stumbled across this bacon blog – Bacon Unwrapped. It’s full of bacony goodness. Chocolate-covered bacon Mal Carne’s offering free cooking lessons! Tell him the dish you’ve always had trouble cooking, and he’ll offer up some cooking tips. *** The Urban Eater explains what it means to be a food stylist. *** Adventures in Food eats lambs and roses in Clearwater. *** Finally! Bacon for dessert! St. Pete Times’ Ben Montgomery has the scoop on celebrity chef Robert Irvine who is supposed to be opening high-concept restaurants Ooze and Schmooze. “It is now three months past the planned opening. Look through those windows, past the giant posters of chef Robert Irvine, and you’ll see a dirt floor, exposed pipes, lonely ladders.” Thanks to [...] If Lee Roy Selmon played football like his restaurant made burgers, he never would have made it to the pros and probably would have been laughed out of Arena League Football. I was looking forward to this burger. I had every reason to think Selmon’s was going to offer up a well-executed example of the [...] Thanks to anonymous for sending along this YouTube video of someone attempting to eat a cheeseburger in a can. After I posted the post below I saw that Laura Reiley’s guest blogger linked to the same Esquire article. A few moments ago, searching for something completely unrelated I stumbled across this Flickr pool of serious sandwiches. Those are some serious sandwiches. Esquire has picked their version of the best sandwiches in America. And the best Cuban…? You guessed it! Paseo in Seattle. (Dear Esquire – I think you mean “couldn’t care less” rather than “could care less.” If they could care less than that means they might care quite a bit. I passionately love my garden gnome. Could I [...] As Michelle noted in an earlier post, Chef Mal Carne has started his own blog, Bad Meat. Mal provides more than just a recipe. His lengthy posts actually explain how and why the recipe works. *** Speaking of Michelle, she’s opened some swanky new digs at The Urban Eater. There’s lots of excellent stuff over there that [...] I thought about giving each burger a ranking of some sort, on a scale of 1-10 perhaps, or 3 stars out of five, but I’ve finally decided I’m just going to put them on a list from best to worst. Note that with each new burger added the list will change, but here it is [...] When I pulled into the parking lot of GrillSmith I thought I wouldn’t be able to write about my visit. I’m looking for a local burger, not a chain burger, and GrillSmith oozes the chain look. A quick trip around the ‘net when I got home reveals that the chain look is not accidental. [...] Cross Posted at The Urban Eater It’s February again and it has been for 11 days. That means you have 3 days to find the perfect V Day gift. If you are like me, this can be tricky. I’ve been with my Hubby for 8 ½ blissful years. We have just about everything we want [...] Of course, not including Eating Tampa or The Urban Eater, my new favorite blog is…….. Bad Meat Finally, a real Chef speaks his mind. One of the things I’ve learned keeping this blog is that you guys know a lot more about food than I do. Initially this page was just so a few friends and I could recommend new restaurants to each other, but it’s become a conversation piece when I meet new people and I’ve realized I [...] Brian Ries has posted some disturbing animal cruelty videos, which reminded me of these Meatrix cartoons that came out a few years ago. To sum up – eating meat, I don’t have such a problem with, the meat industry, on the other hand, is profoundly screwed up. I know this isn’t about food, but it’s about blogging. Is that close enough? I’m not very good at photographing the food I eat. I mean that I both often forget to snap shots of food, and that I am not a very able photographer. My exploration of camera functions ended after I learned how to turn the flash on and off. But, I love it when others take [...] Waiterrant is one of my favorite food-related blogs. The anonymous waiter has an eye for detail, and a gift for understatement. His blog was successful enough that he got a book contract, but that book has been awhile coming. Let’s hope it gets here soon. In the meantime the waiter has been nominated for Best [...] Perhaps after a night of drinking a MacDinton’s burger is sensational. For lunch? Not so much. Out of the running for best burger in Tampa I would be derelict in my duties if I didn’t take a few moments to mention the dark side of the burger. Did you know that it’s illegal for Florida schools to serve meat in their school cafeterias? House Bill 7087 (chapter 2006-074), signed into law in the summer of 2006, states that Members of [...] We Tampians love football, or so I am told. I hate to admit it, but even I get into the Super Bowl. Why? Because it’s a reason to eat food, have some drinks, and gather as friends. What better reason can there be? I have a dilemma, though. No one ever invites me to his [...] |
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