Category: Food

Scorpions, worms and ants on the menu at club

Scorpions, worms and ants on the menu at club on Yahoo! News

North American Cricket served with pear cactus jelly are displayed on a plate at the Explorers’ Club ‘Off the Eaton Path’ event in New York, in this June 28, 2006 file photo. Founded in 1904, the exclusive international club has some 3,000 members around the world including Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest, astronaut John Glenn and paleontologist Richard Leakey. On the menu at a reception for some lesser mortals this month were worms, crickets, scorpions, ants and pigeon pate. (Scott Schumaker/Reuters)

16.5×15-foot Toast

Namnlös Normal sidaThe Toaster is a large picture, 5 meter wide and 4.5 meter high, totally made from slices of bread toasted in different lengths of time to reach the nuances between black and white, ochre and rust. It took several days of work and several friends and their toasters to prepare the 2.500 pieces of toast necessary to build the gigantic mosaic, which reproduce a photograph of a toaster.

MOJITO FRENZY HITS U.S.

MOJITO FRENZY HITS U.S.

”The mojito is probably the third most popular cocktail right now and it’s muscling in on No. 2,” said Dale DeGroff, author of The Craft of the Cocktail and considered one of the country’s leading mixologists. “Everything Latin is hot.’

But as the mojito reaches out to places like Missouri, some industry experts believe the trend setters have moved on. In Miami and other markets with a large Latin influence, the next hot thing may be the caipirinha, a traditional Brazilian drink.

RFID tags Spy on Bartenders

RFID Journal – Vegas Hotel-Casino Uses Tags to Keep Tabs on Liquor

Do you know how much money is lost in annual sales of liquors in the US? Capton, a provider of liquor-monitoring technology, estimates that $7 billion is lost from bartenders. The system, which consists of RFID-enabled liquor spouts, an RFID reader and proprietary software, costs between $10,000 and $20,000, but can save $90,000 per year for an average bar.

$100 Burger

State: A big-bucks burger

The burger contains three kinds of it, from three continents — from corn-fed American Prime cattle from Colorado, free-range cattle from the Argentine pampas and Japanese Wagyu cattle that were raised on soybeans and beer, then bathed in sake and hand-massaged.

For Tuesday’s official first tasting, the beef was flown into Fort Lauderdale, then driven to the restaurant in a climate-controlled, armored stretch Hummer limo.

The burger is fried in about 8 ounces of grape seed oil —“It’s healthier,” said Joe Galison, chef de cuisine — and then nestled onto a toasted Brioche bun and topped with heirloom tomatoes, exotic mushrooms and organic micro greens. (other coverage)

Cracking the Cream Cheese Code

Wired 14.06: Schmear Campaign
Kraft, which has been perfecting its Philadelphia-brand cheese for more than 75 years, closely guards its manufacturing secrets, keeping them in a vault in Chicago. What it knows, it isn’t sharing. The company controls nearly 70 percent of the $800 million market.

At the moment, Schreiber Foods is in the best position to challenge Kraft’s dominance. Schreiber is the world’s largest privately held cheese company, generating more than $3 billion in annual revenue. It jumped into the cream cheese business only four years ago but moved aggressively, buying manufacturers that supply private-label super-market brands. Schreiber is now the number two producer, controlling an estimated 25 percent of the market. Continue reading “Cracking the Cream Cheese Code”

Celsius Rising?

TCS Daily – Celsius Rising?
The new soda comes in three flavours – cola, lemon and lime and ginger ale. It was launched in 2005 when it won the Beverage Industry’s Best New Product award for an energy drink also scientifically proven to actively burn our calories. In other words, drinking Celsius burns more calories than the drink itself contains.

Celsius contains a thermogenic blend. The process of thermogenesis (thermo: heat, genesis, creation) has, of course, been understood for some time. Thermogenetic agents stimulate the natural resting metabolic rate (RMR) that raises body temperature – which causes the body to burn additional calories.

Retailing for around $1.99 per 12-ounce bottle, Celsius, depending on the flavour, contains between five and ten calories. Janice Haley, vice president of Elite FX, Inc., which developed Celsius, says, “It naturally raises your metabolism by 12 percent over a three- to four-hour period. The net effect of this is that the 5 – 10 calories is more than ‘eaten up’ as the body burns between 67 to 72 calories.” Continue reading “Celsius Rising?”

Record-breaking burger

Record-breaking burger – Slashfood
Though there has been some debate in the past about who makes the world’s biggest burger, the Guinness Book of World’s Records officiated at the weigh-in of a 29.5-pound burger at the Foxwoods Resort Casino’s Fuddruckers restaurant. They granted the 18.5-in. wide by 8-in. tall burger the title of “world’s largest commercially available burger.” It costs $250 and must be ordered 48 hours in advance.