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Get Ready for a Pasta Girl Fall

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Say hello to pastacore. | Lille Allen/Eater Tomato girl summer paved the way for a pasta girl fall Good or bad, the “girl dinner” trend seemed to retool the way we talk. If you like something a lot, you’re a “_____ girl.” This summer alone has given rise to the tomato girl and the olive girl , in addition to the aforementioned girl dinner. But with summer officially over, it’s time for a shift. It can be alienating to exist without knowing what kind of “girl” you are — who wants to be left adrift in the internet ecosystem without an meme identity to cling to? Fortunately with our TikTokified cornucopia of olives, tomatoes, and dinners, a people’s champion for fall is emerging: pasta girl. The recipe for a pasta girl fall has been building for some time now. Sure, there’s never been a time where pasta has been out of vogue, but if you take a quick perusal of social media, you’ll notice that the dish is particularly ‘in.’ Not only is it the go-to girl dinner of choice according to...

It’s Never Just a Milkshake

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Camerique/Getty Images For decades the milkshake has been Hollywood’s greatest edible metaphor In the new absurdist rom-com Bottoms , two teens get to know each other over perfectly pink strawberry milkshakes at a diner. One is a cheerleader with a quarterback boyfriend who doesn’t seem to care much for her, the other a shy social outcast who longs for her new friend. They gently exchange glances and smiles, realizing there may be some chemistry there. It’s a scene cemented into the American imagination: wholesome young love blooming in a small town — with a side of sugary whipped dairy. Only in this case, the couple are two girls, Isabel and Josie, played by Havana Rose Liu and Ayo Edebiri. Squint and the diner scene looks straight out of Norman Rockwell’s America — before, of course, you remember that this is exactly the kind of relationship that the cultivated image of idyllic suburban life so often represented by diners and burgers and milkshakes was meant to destroy. Milksha...

The 38 Essential Mexico City Restaurants

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Barbacoa Gonzalitos Matcha-stuffed pan de muerto for Día de los Muertos, gnocchi with mussels from a seasonal seafood pioneer, Reubens at a hotspot in Condesa’s growing Jewish deli scene, and more of CDMX’s best meals right now The first thing any visitor to the Mexican capital will take in — probably while staring out the window in awe as their airplane descends over the intense, urbanity-on-steroids sprawl — is the sheer size of this town, 573 square miles in total. It’s densely populated and patchworked with distinct neighborhoods, each with its own culinary identity. It would take several lifetimes to get to know all of the street stands, holes in the wall, neighborhood favorites, and high-end destinations in this city. Yet this list — 38 restaurants, dishes, and culinary experiences that define Mexico City’s gastronomic identity — should offer a comprehensive starting point for any visitor. It includes the obvious and the overexposed; it also includes hidden gems. It covers l...

Sichuan Peppercorns Are Hot Enough for McDonald’s

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Two new flavored corn syrups | McDonald’s The ingredient has gone from the telltale tingle of Sichuan cuisine to fully mainstream Earlier this month in T magazine Ligaya Mishan wrote about the history of vanilla. Specifically, Mishan’s article explored how a rich, earthy, “almost unruly” flavor harvested from the finicky vanilla orchid became associated with blandness. It seems ridiculous when you think about it, vanilla becoming a stand-in for something so pervasive you barely even notice it. But this is how food trends go: the “discovery,” the demand, and ultimately the diffusion and normalization of what was once exotic. We’ve seen it not just with vanilla, but with “ pumpkin spice ,” ube , sriracha , and truffle . And now it’s happening with sichuan peppercorn. McDonald’s announced this week that it will be releasing two new sauces : Mambo Sauce, a tomato-and-vinegar mixture based on the popular Washington, D.C. condiment , and a Sweet & Spicy Jam Sauce, which it describ...

Meet the Michigan Chef Who Competed in the World Paella Cup

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Rosa Maria Zamarrón https://detroit.eater.com/2023/9/27/23871373/ann-arbor-chef-competes-world-paella-cup from Eater - All https://ift.tt/qWh9EJF via IFTTT

To Understand Taiwan’s Quietly Defiant Drinking Culture, You Drink at Chán Shífāng

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https://punchdrink.com/articles/taiwan-drink-culture-gluttonous-eatery-taipei/ from Eater - All https://ift.tt/TQ2GFOj via IFTTT

Vegetables Get the Tinned Fish Treatment

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With saltines, radishes, and butter, “mushroom snow crab” takes the place of tinned fish. | Bettina Makalintal Seed to Surf offers “mushroom snow crab” and “celery root whitefish,” but can mushrooms satisfy a craving for crustaceans? In the age of TikTok marketing most everything is undergoing a rebrand, in both the food world and things adjacent to it. Agua fresca makes the rounds as “spa water.” Baby blue nail polish is a “ blueberry milk ” manicure; warm brown tones on the eyes and cheeks are “ latte makeup .” An affection for Mediterranean imagery and the color red is now the “ tomato girl aesthetic ,” while a preference for neutrals denotes a “ vanilla girl .” And so on. It’s within this ecosystem that canned fish has continued its evolution into the trendy “tinned fish,” a stroke of marketing genius that put all types of hermetically sealed seafood on the menus of high-end restaurants and markets around the country. Now, vegetables are getting the same treatment: The “plant...

5 Cocktails to Say Goodbye to Summer

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Check out these 5 classic cocktails to say goodbye to summer. Soak in the last days of sun and fun. Purified Mai Tai Town & Country Resort (San Diego, CA) Ingredients: 1 ½ oz Jamaican Rum ¾ oz Lime Juice ½ oz Orange Liqueur (Dry Curacao, Grand Marnier, Cointreau, etc.) ½ oz Orgeat ¼ oz Demerara (This an optional addition for those who enjoy a cocktail on the sweeter side) Milk wash with 1 oz milk Preparation: Take all the ingredients mixed together and slowly pour over 1 oz of whole milk while gently stirring. Do not pour the milk into the cocktail solution as it is important the cocktail is slowly added to the milk. Let the new cocktail solution sit and separate to isolate the casein proteins from the whole milk. Place a coffee filter or several layers of fine mesh cheese cloth into a funnel or chinois, and pour your new cocktail solution into the filter you have set up. Let the milk added cocktail solution filter completely through the funnel/chinois into a cle...

23 Easy Crock Pot Chicken Recipes

These Easy Crock Pot Chicken Recipes are ready to come to the rescue on busy weeknights. Give your oven the night off, because I’m sharing some of my best healthy chicken recipes that you can make in your slow cooker. Healthy Crock Pot Chicken Recipes I’m always looking for new crock pot and slow cooker from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/zg5rEqo via IFTTT

Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies

These soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies, made with pumpkin puree, pumpkin spice, and cream cheese, have a cake-like texture and lots of pumpkin flavor! Soft Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies My daughter Madison loves pumpkin spice, so she devoured these Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies when I was testing them. I adapted them slightly from these pumpkin from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/p5VfPDr via IFTTT

The 4 Best Olive Oil Sprayers of 2023

The best olive oil sprayers make coating your cookware quick and convenient. Olive oil is such a versatile and flavorful ingredient to use in your cooking — it’s a staple in so many of my favorite recipes! However, if you’re pouring it out of the bottle, it’s easy to use more than you intended, adding from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/Cbf3KmE via IFTTT

How I Got My Job: Being a Professional Recipe Developer and Food Photographer

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Photoillustration by Lille Allen/Eater; photo by Ariana Genilla Louiie Victa went from line cook to multi-hyphenate food creator — and entrepreneur As a child, Louiie Victa wanted to be a veterinarian. She loved animals and thought caring for them would be a nice career — until she saw a video of a cow giving birth and promptly changed her mind. From then on, food was the only path she considered, so it was rather ironic that the only culinary job she could get, as a young immigrant to the United States, was at the San Francisco Zoo. Though Victa had earned a hospitality management degree in her native Philippines, she struggled to get hired without recognizable names on her resume, so she began her cooking career by flipping burgers and whipping up pasta dishes at the zoo. “It was not quite the fine dining experience I aspired towards, but I was young and it was fun,” she remembers. “The zoo is actually where I learned a lot about American culture. Plus, it was such a perk to be...

Free 7 Day Healthy Meal Plan (Sept 25-Oct 1)

A free 7-day, flexible weight loss meal plan including breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas and a shopping list. All recipes include macros and Weight Watchers points. Free 7 Day Healthy Meal Plan (Sept 25-Oct 1) Thank you for all the love you have shown me this week! From all the sweet comments about Good Morning America, to meeting so many of you in New from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/qW0Xyd7 via IFTTT

Venteux Uses Raw Bar to Create Luxe Seafood Shooters and More!

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Chicago’s glamorous brasserie, cafe and oyster bar, Venteux , located in Pendry Hotel has kicked their drink game up a notch! Included in their recent menu refresh is what they are calling the worlds filthiest Martini complete with 12 plump olives, as well as imaginative seafood shooters with selections from their raw bar. Dirty Dozen Ingredients: 3 3/4 oz Belvedere Rye 1 oz dirty vermouth 3/4 oz olive brine 3 green olives 3 blue cheese olives 3 Nicoise olives 3 Castelvetrano olives Preparation: Pour vodka, olive brine and vermouth into a shaker, add ice and shake hard. Keep shaking until shaker tin is very cold. Split mixture between chilled coupe glass and sidecar glass. Garnish coup with skewered olives, and place sidecar in ramekin of ice to keep cold.   Shooters: Classic Shooter Ingredients: 1 oz horseradish-infused vodka 2 oz Bloody Mary mix Preparation: Shake Bloody Mary mix and vodka with ice and strain into Nic and Nora glass rimmed with Tajin. Ga...

Supermarket Food Waste Is a Big Problem. Is Dynamic Pricing the Solution?

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Justin Sullivan/Getty Images According to a new study, grocery stores could keep more food out of landfills, increase profits, and pad customers’ pockets by adopting a practice widely used by airlines, hotels, and other industries This story was originally published on Civil Eats . Picture yourself grocery shopping. In the bread aisle, you see two loaves identically wrapped; both are perfectly edible, but one is a day older and costs half the price. In the produce section, you see two baskets of avocados. The ones in the front are ripe, will need to be eaten today, and cost 75 cents less than those in the back, which will last for a few days. Which do you choose? This is a business practice called dynamic pricing, and it may be coming soon to a supermarket near you. Dynamic pricing is not new; for decades, the airline, fashion, and hospitality industries have all found that dynamic pricing — the incremental adjustments to prices to reflect inventory, demand, and supply — has ...

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Warm your kitchen with the aroma of pumpkin spice by baking this healthy pumpkin bread, ideal for cool, cozy fall days. Pumpkin Bread This healthy pumpkin bread recipe is to make, made with homemade or canned pumpkin, topped with pepitas. So good!. Oh how I just love October, and all things cozy, warm and pumpkin! from Skinnytaste https://ift.tt/YeMVNsH via IFTTT

The 23 Essential Restaurants in Cincinnati

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Gina Weathersby A punk rock yacht club that gleefully steals from chain restaurants, a fusion restaurant remaking Cincinnati chili with pork and lo mein, a James Beard finalist serving creative Creole dishes, and more of Cincinnati’s best meals Cincinnati might be best known, culinarily at least, for its chili: a Bolognese-like sauce created by Greek immigrants and seasoned with cinnamon, allspice, and clove. It’s served on hot dogs and spaghetti and doled out in ubiquitous chili parlors that dot the city. But that well-spiced dish — beloved as it may be — barely scratches the surface of what the city has to offer diners. Since the 2010s, the city has experienced a restaurant renaissance, starting in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood, which served as a hotbed of innovation. Many pioneers from restaurants in the area have now become Cincinnati’s old guard, and new upstarts are emerging across the city’s 52 neighborhoods. Today, College Hill is home to some of the city’s best ramen an...

5 Mozart Liqueur Cocktails to Welcome Fall

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With s’mores season coming to an end and pumpkin season almost upon us, why not indulge in some cocktails that include the best of both worlds? These sweet creations crafted with Mozart Chocolate Liqueur and Mozart Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Liqueur will help you conclude the summer season and commence those fall vibes. Boozy S’mores Milkshakes Courtesy of Gluten Free and More Magazine Ingredients: 4 oz. Mozart Chocolate Cream Liqueur Chocolate Syrup Crushed Graham Cracker Crumbs 3 cups Chocolate Ice Cream Mini Marshmallows Graham Crackers Preparation: Pour a little chocolate syrup onto a small plate. Put crushed graham cracker crumbs onto another small plate. Dip a large glass into the syrup and then into the cracker crumbs. Repeat with one more glass. Put glasses in the freezer. In a blender, combine the chocolate ice cream with the Mozart Chocolate Cream liqueur and blend until smooth. Divide mixture between the prepared glasses, top with mini marshmallows, and brown wit...