CNN Scribbling – Pre-Eatocracy food stories from my team

Here’s a collection of all the CNN Living stories my team did before we actually launched as Eatocracy.

6/3 – Where to eat in New York (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
5/27 – Attack of the snack is spreading (Sarah LeTrent)
5/26 – Starbucks plans to stir up coffee market (Sarah LeTrent)
5/25 – Gulf Coast chefs, fishermen fight tide of misinformation (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
5/20 – Regional flavors may be a click away (Kat Kinsman)
5/14 – Foie gras causes uproar (Sara Bonisteel)
5/13 – Tots at upper-echelon restaurants? (Sarah LeTrent)
5/13 – Lettuce lovers go E. coli-free with container gardens (Kat Kinsman)
5/12 – Chef Besh: Eat U.S. seafood — save a way of life (Kat Kinsman)
5/10 – Cooking dinner? There’s an app for that (Steven Stern)
5/10 – Yes, skeptics, Olive Garden does have a Tuscan culinary institute (Sarah LeTrent)
5/07 – Chefs rally to help Nashville after flood (Kat Kinsman)
5/07 – Restaurants assure customers lettuce is safe amid recall (Sarah LeTrent)
5/06 – Roger Ebert finds his voice and appetite online (Kat Kinsman)
5/04 – Chef Colicchio: Don’t fear fine dining (Kat Kinsman)
5/04 – ‘Treme’ recap: Barq’s root beer and a coffee-fueled Crescent City (Sara Bonisteel)
4/30 – Kentucky Derby chef bets on fresh fare (Kat Kinsman)
4/30 – Michael Alig cooks up a post-prison career (Kat Kinsman)
4/30 – Restaurants’ table turnover tricks boost business (Sarah LeTrent)
4/29 – Burger King takes a gamble on lunch (John DeVore)
4/28 – Activists call foul on KFC bucket campaign (Kat Kinsman)
4/28 – Toys banned in some California fast food restaurants (Sara Bonisteel)
4/27 – World’s 50 best restaurants list released (Kat Kinsman & Sarah LeTrent)
4/27 – Does stunt fare muddy restaurant brand? (Sarah LeTrent)
4/26 – It’s meatless Monday for some (Sarah LeTrent)
4/24 – At celebrity-named restaurants, fame is what’s cooking (Sara Bonisteel)
4/23 – Kim Severson’s pick of wisdom learned in the kitchen (Kat Kinsman)
4/22 – Bottled water faces backlash (Steven Stern)
4/22 – Eat, drink for less with online dining deals (Sarah LeTrent)
4/22 – What Jamie Oliver says you should have in your kitchen (Kat Kinsman)
4/22 – Top Chef Masters recap – episode 3 (John DeVore)
4/21 – Naughty nurses, ninjas bring your food (Sara Bonisteel)
4/20 – For troops, a happy meal is relative (John DeVore)
4/19 – Treme recap – Crystal Hot Sauce gets its due (Sara Bonisteel)
4/19 – Private Chefs of Beverly Hills host medieval murder mystery (Sarah LeTrent)
4/19 – Fast food treat is shrinking (Sara Bonisteel)
4/17 – Big burger boys burgle breakfast (John DeVore)
4/15 – Top Chef Masters recap – episode 2 (John DeVore)
4/14 – Ice cream cookie cups win Pillsbury Bake-Off (Kat Kinsman)
4/14 – Chili heads seek friendly fire from powerful pepper (Sara Bonisteel)
4/13 – Treme recap – New Orleans food (Sara Bonisteel)
4/12 – Inmates grow roots as jailhouse farmers (Sarah LeTrent)
4/10 – Private Chefs of Beverly Hills premiere recap (Sarah LeTrent)
4/8 – Top Chef Masters recap – episode 1 (John DeVore)
4/7 – Is fast food fat fare going too far? (Kat Kinsman)
4/7 – $13 coffee worth the brew-ha-ha? (John DeVore)
4/3 – Chef steps up to plate to fuel favorite team (Sarah LeTrent)
4/2 – Trade movie popcorn for yogurt? (Kat Kinsman)
4/2 – Pickles at the picture show (Steven Stern)
3/29 – “Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution” – Recap (Kat Kinsman)
3/26 – School lunch gets an upgrade (Hanna Raskin)
3/26 – Brand-placement marketing targets huge airline traveler audience (Sarah LeTrent)
3/26 – ‘P’ in P. Diddy gets a new meaning (Sarah LeTrent)
3/25 – Latest high-fructose corn syrup study generates buzz, debate (Hanna Raskin)
3/23 – National chains turning to free food on Tuesday (Sarah LeTrent)
3/23 – Cupcake passion more than a trend (Sara Bonisteel)
3/22 – The Oscars of the Food World (Kat Kinsman)
3/22 – A ‘dude’ explains why salad is ‘man food’ (John DeVore)
3/22 – Vegetarian activists try in-your-face tactics (Steven Stern)
3/19 – Did Jamie Oliver really shape up town? (Hanna Raskin)
3/18 – Shrek coming soon to a produce aisle near you (Sara Bonisteel)
3/17 – TV chefs whose shows burned to a crisp (Kat Kinsman)

Slashfood Archives: ‘Top Chef – The Quickfire Cookbook’

‘Top Chef – The Quickfire Cookbook’
by Emily Miller with foreword by Padma Lakshmi
Chronicle Books — 2009

It’s Padma’s world. The rest of us just cook in it — just mostly without a gigantic LED countdown clock, a dozen cleaver-wielding competitors jockeying for prep space and a mandate to make haute nibbles from the contents of a 7-Eleven’s snack aisle. But if that’s what cremes your brulee and you haven’t the tats, ‘tude and temerity to audition for competitive reality TV, you can live vicariously through this book.

Or you can just go online and save the $29.95.
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Slashfood Archives: ‘My New Orleans’ – Cookbook Spotlight

‘My New Orleans – The Cookbook: 200 of My Favorite Recipes from My Hometown’
By John Besh
Photographs by Ditte Isager
Andrews McMeel — 2009

Chef John Besh’s magnum opus on the food of his hometown could easily be mistaken for a coffee table-style photography book edited by someone with one heck of a food fetish. That’d be only partially correct.

Besh celebrates and contextualizes New Orleans cuisine within a reverent, passionate travelogue and memoir based around the ingredients and food rituals of a full year in the Big Easy. In this 374-page volume, the chef, restaurateur (including August, Lüke, Besh Steak, Domenica, La Provence and the upcoming the American Sector at the National WWII Museum), “Next Iron Chef” contender, former Marine and father of four weaves an intimate, illustrated narrative of a life lived deliciously in one of the world’s most important food cities.
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Slashfood Archives: ‘Putting Up: A Seasonal Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition’

‘Putting Up: A Seasonal Guide to Canning in the Southern Tradition’
by Stephen Palmer Dowdney
Gibbs Smith — 2008

You know how your friend’s cousin’s boyfriend’s grandma, like, totally killed a neighbor by innocently giving her a batch of her home-canned beans that oops, turned out to have a touch of the botulism? That’s never going to happen to you. Not on Steve Dowdney’s watch.

This can-vangelist has culled years of his own know-how, as well as the collective wisdom of generations of Southern cooks, into a rigorous, nigh-on religious canning primer. The recipes are solid — almost a shade clinical — but the opening chapter, packed with equipment tips, altitude and pH charts, preparation terms and step-by-step best practices, could be a stand-alone manual, not to mention the only one you’d ever need to buy.
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