Your late-Friday-afternoon food news roundup, featuring the most insane cake/pie hybrid ever, reasons your waiter hates you and more:
-- The Cherpumple, the dessert version of the Turducken: a three-layer cake with a pie stuffed in each layer. Charles Phoenix -- 20 secrets your waiter won't tell you + 30 more secrets = 50 reasons your waiter hates you. Reader's Digest -- Tiger Sushi ready to open in former Luckyfish space; Santa Monica Bar & Grill to become Upper West. Eater LA -- Eating with Kristen Schaal: oyster shooters, monkey brains and the tyranny of onions. Fork in the Road -- Unilever recalls all Slim-Fast ready-to-drink products in cans because of possible contamination. FDA -- Nine foods attacked by the grocery shrink ray. Live Cheap -- Aqua Teen Hunger Force wants you to Have Yourself a Meaty Little Christmas. -- Ritz now dips its crackers in fudge -- during the holidays. -- Describe what Lender's Bagels mean to you to win $1,000 and a year's supply of bagels. -- The world's most extravagant meals. Forbes
How is it possible that Farrell's is opening a location in Orange County before opening another location in Los Angeles? I have no idea, but it's true. This and more in today's food news.
-- Mignon, from the owners of Bacaro LA Wine Bar, is set to open this winter next to Cole's/Varnish. Eater LA -- Santa Monica resists nouveau food trucks. California Taco Trucks --Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour makes its Orange County return on Wednesday, opening a new location in Mission Viejo. Fast Food Maven -- The New Yorker profiles Jonathan Gold (and mentions local food blogger Teenage Glutster!). -- With the demise of Gourmet magazine, Jane and Michael Stern will now be e-mailing their Roadfood newsletter once a week. Eating LA -- Mattatouille has some lovely pictures from his recent foodventures in Japan, Indonesia and Korea. -- New York firm recalls ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination. Safe Tables -- Challenge Butter recently launched its "Taste of the West" contest. Prizes include a seven-day / six-night trip to Montana and an $850 kitchen package from Spice Islands and OXO. -- Check out this infomercial, supposedly the first one ever, made in 1949. It's from Vita-Mix and features founder William G. “Papa” Barnard and a blender. Make your own absurd video and you could win Vita-Mix's Pitch Me! contest. -- Marly Billings of Newport Beach, Shelly Mayo of Brentwood and David Walter of Los Angeles won Wahoo's Fish Tacos' recent naming contest with the three following dishes: Power Chopper Salad, Wafu Bowl and Baja-ladas Platter.
-- Elina Shatkin
Photo: 28-year-old Justin Dervaes (right) secures a smoothie being blended as his sister Jordanne pedals in the backyard of the family's urban homestead in Pasadena. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times.
A cupcake so cute it's scary, a Roman milk bar and a new sushi restaurant on La Cienega lead our food news roundup.
-- Teetotalers may be more depressed than drinkers. Time
-- Absinthe in a chocolate shake? Welcome to Latte Piu, a milk bar in Rome that’s patterned after "Clockwork Orange's" Korova. Los Angeles Times
-- Agura sushi on La Cienega soft-opens. Blackburn + Sweetzer
-- Figs, cupcakes, Guy Fieri and seven more things David Chang and Anthony Bourdain hate. Grub Street LA
-- San Diego Meat Co. recalls 925 pounds of beef products due to E. coli threat. Los Angeles Times
-- Red Mango has a new seasonal flavor: pumpkin spice.
-- Most adorable Halloween cupcake ever? We Love You So
-- Elina Shatkin
Photo: It looks innocuous, but the Diavaolo, a chocolate milkshake with 80-proof absinthe, packs a big punch. It's served at Latte Piu, a milk bar in Rome. Credit: Baxter Holmes / For The Times
From roasted goats to red velvet cookies to recalled waffles to trayless cafeterias:
--Bangladeshi goat on the cusp of Koreatown at Taurat Tandoori. Mattatouille --The 99 Cent Chef answers five questions for Time's Cheapskate Blog. --Car smashes through front of Wokcano in downtown L.A.; two injured. Los Angeles Times --Red velvet cookies at the Studio City Farmers Market. Sku's Recent Eats --The ultimate mobile candy shop -- in Afghanistan. New York Times --Chocolate and avocado cake with avocado buttercream. Not Quite Nigella --Doing pullups at a Waffle House will get you arrested. NWF Daily News --The cafeteria of the future is trayless. Los Angeles Times --Are your friends making you fat? The power of social contagion. New York Times --Kellogg recalls Eggo waffles over Listeria fears. Oregon Live --Fannie May recalls 43,000 candy bars. Forbes --Ice cream and burgers can control your brain. Reuters
--Elina Shatkin
Photo: A street vendor sells a roasted goat on the first day of Ramadan at the traditional Iftar market at Chalkbazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit: Abir Abdullah / EPA.
-- Eating with Kristen Schaal: oyster shooters, monkey brains and the tyranny of onions. Fork in the Road
