Evan Sung for The New York Times that’s what Jonathan, Shirley, and I are in this picture, taken when we took Shirley to Co. to celebrate her last day at FN. Clearly, “Co.” stands for “cola” — what are you trying to insinuate, anyway? UPDATE 4/8/09: Now that the actual article’s posted, there’s even moreRead more »

Eat Me Daily has a great piece up today on the IACP cookbook awards, and what they mean in the context of both the food world and publishing. Inside baseball to some extent, sure, but fascinating inside baseball. Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

When visiting a friend this weekend, somehow we came upon the topic (because that happens) of Food Party, the fabulous web video series I posted about a few months ago. I learned from my friend, who is knowledgable in the ways of Food Party, that a whole SLEW of new Food Party episodes are currentlyRead more »

Meet Floss. She’s a cow, originally from South Yorkshire, who ran away 9 months ago after having been sold. She managed to spend that entire time on the run, traveling about 60 miles all told, hanging out in a paintball field and stealing hay here and there, before being brought to an animal sanctuary inRead more »

Personally, all of my meals are anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalist guerillas-with-questionable-history themed — aren’t yours? [via] Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

Yesterday a few of my colleagues and I got to experience the latest and greatest thing to happen to the Yankees… Food Network has entered the building. With the help of some very hard working employees here, we now officially have our own concession stand in the premium seating area. Yesterday was a very softRead more »

Today, we in the FN Library would like to offer our heartiest congratulations to one Phillip M. Parker of the UK. If, dear reader, the name means nothing to you, then perhaps his most recent book ‘The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-Milligram Containers of Fromage Frais’ will. Perhaps not. Well, Mr. Parker may have onceRead more »

but that’s not to say I don’t appreciate having my own personal lunch special (and special bhel puri), opening soon (and delivering!) within 15 blocks of our office: Thanks to pal-of-this-blog Midtown Lunch for the intel (and the photo). Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

Am having some serious blog insecurity over this — Corby Kummer, with a dream-team lineup of contributors, has launched a spectacular food blog that’ll he plans to update twice daily. Thus far, it’s been stunning, and I suspect it’ll only get better with time. Go read it. Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer

Via eatmedaily, this chart, compiled by MSU professor Phil Howard illustrates perfectly just how difficult it is to really know where your food is coming from. Rupa Bhattacharya, Culinary Writer