A Sandwich a Day: Muffuletta from Central Grocery in New Orleans | Serious Eats. The muffuletta is my favorite sandwich, by far. And for me the gold standard has always been Central Grocery. I’ve had countless muffulettas from other locations, but to me, the original has always been the best. However, I have a new […]

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Restaurant becomes Disney’s only seafood house – Around Disney – OCRegister.com Tammy and I at at Hook’s Pointe the first night of our Disneyland vacation in 2006, and we thoroughly enjoyed it.  Great atmosphere and food.  But, it was pretty quiet and not a lot of other diners.  Granted, it was during a slow season, […]

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Real Sugar-based “Pepsi Throwback” Poised to Hit US Shelves – The Retroist Figures.  Just as I started drinking Diet sodas…  No matter, I’ll definitely give these a try.  Coke really should do something similar, even if they have to charge a slight premium..

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The Year That Was in Burger Pictures | A Hamburger Today I imagine this is what the food in heaven looks like.  At least I hope so..

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Barack Obama Snacks on Hawaiian Spam Sushi – Barack Obama : People.com spam musubi – now that’s a sushi I would eat.  Yummy! As a side note:  Isn’t it sad that the man can’t even have lunch without his whole order being reported on and scrutinized?  But, I guess it’s equally sad that I enjoyed […]

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Disney’s pro candy cane rollers create confection perfection – Around Disney – OCRegister.com Nice story about the handmade candy canes at Disneyland.  It’s a pretty cool tradition that I didn’t even know existed at Disneyland.  Check out the photo galleries for some great photos, and the video shows how they make the candy canes..

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Delicious Disney: Canadian Cheddar Cheese Soup DELICIOUS!!! It’s pretty neat that Disney is posting cooking videos on their press site..

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The Pop vs. Soda Page I’m from the “Coke” camp.  “Soda” I can understand, but I just don’t get “Pop.”  Well, to each his own..

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Crazy Craigslist Cookie Ad | Serious Eats This ad has been taken off Craigslist, but it’s still pretty funny reading..

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What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day | Serious Eats.

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/mathlete/ Could this be the greatest invention ever?  My vote is “yes”.

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New Orleans CityBusiness — The Business Newspaper of Metropolitan New Orleans Sweet!  This is the Bennigan’s where Tammy and I had our first date.  Maybe we can still have another date there, but we better make it fast.  🙂.

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Bennigan’s, Steak & Ale file for bankruptcy No!!!  I’m not a huge fan of Bennigan’s or Steak & Ale, but when I worked in Orlando, we would go to Bennigan’s for lunch maybe once every month of two, just to catch up with friends.  In fact, my “going away” lunch was held there (thanks, Jane!).  […]

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New Work: Popeyes | New at Pentagram | Pentagram Meh.  It’s OK.  I didn’t see anything wrong with the old logo..

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How to Turn Your Kettle Grill into a Smoker | Simply Recipes.

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On Saturday night, Tammy and I dined at K-Paul’s Louisiana Kitchen, which is Paul Prudhomme’s restaurant.  This was Tammy’s Mother’s Day gift.  Yes, Mother’s Day was a month ago, but we’ve been busy the past few weeks, and this was the first opportunity that we could make reservations. The restuarant is in the French Quarter […]

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Southpinellas: TV chef spiced up his past exploits.

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rat-a-too-ee for you-ee | smitten kitchen.

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Ashley Morris: the blog: Rachel Ray…educating debutantes NSFW.

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From Disaster, a Chef Forges an Empire – New York Times I know, I know…another story about something New Orleans.  Bear with me–this guy is a good one.  His restaurants and food are exceptional, and he’s a good person..

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