Food

Daily Bread, Food, Recipe

Daily Bread for 11.26.21: A Japanese Recipe for Pancakes

by JOHN ADAMS • 11/26/2021 • Comments

Good morning. Friday in Whitewater will be cloudy with a high of 32. Sunrise is 7:01 AM and sunset 4:23 PM for 9h 22m 07s of daytime. The moon is a waning gibbous with 59.4% of its visible disk illuminated. On this day in 1838, the Wisconsin Legislature assembles in Madison for the first time: On…

Faraway Places, Food

Why the Vada Pav Is Mumbai’s Best Sandwich

by JOHN ADAMS • 06/14/2020 • Comments

Documentary, Food

To The Surface

by JOHN ADAMS • 05/24/2020 • Comments

Like most things, Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the RI seafood industry. We wanted to explore this topic to raise awareness to the struggles and try to find some common sense solutions to the challenges (while being mindful of safety and social distancing). Our DP Tyler Murgo grew up seeing his family harvest seafood from wild…

Film, Food

Cirque du Pizza: The Art of Pizza Acrobatics

by JOHN ADAMS • 04/15/2017 • Comments

Cirque du Pizza: The Art of Pizza Acrobatics from Great Big Story on Vimeo. When it comes to pizza dough tossing, there’s the classic pitch you’re probably picturing, and then there’s what Tony Gemignani does. The 12-time world pizza champion describes his particular art form as “what a Harlem Globetrotter does with a basketball”—only with…

Drink, Food, Regulations

The Kombucha Freedom Warrior

by JOHN ADAMS • 12/09/2016 • Comments

As fermented products become more common as health fads, questions about regulation are being raised. For one, kombucha is the product of fermenting tea with a culture of live yeast and bacteria. As a result, the beverage has a variable alcohol content—and some of its producers are being targeted by the federal regulators. In this…

Food

Food: ‘Beginners Guide to Cooking Eggs Every Way’

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/27/2016 • Comments

From Brothers Green Eats —

Food

Is That Really Wasabi?

by JOHN ADAMS • 10/15/2016 • Comments

The Wasabi You Eat Probably Isn’t Wasabi from Great Big Story on Vimeo.

Food

Food: Parmesan Ice Cream

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/15/2016 • Comments

Food

How Fortune Cookies are Made

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/03/2016 • Comments

Food

Food: Making Chinese Takeout Dishes

by JOHN ADAMS • 09/01/2016 • Comments

Here’s a how-to video on making some takeout favorites —

Food

Food: Cheesetopia

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/25/2016 • Comments

Food

Food: Shopping at a Japanese Supermarket

by JOHN ADAMS • 08/11/2016 • Comments

Adina Steiman visited a Mitsuwa in New Jersey, but there’s one in near Chicago (in Arlington Heights), too.

Food, Poll

Friday Poll: National Junk Food Day

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/22/2016 • 5 Comments

Too Many ‘National’ Days? Yesterday, apparently, was (unofficially) National Junk Food Day. I didn’t know there was even an unofficial day like that, but there was, and is. By the time the junk food snack food industry has claimed a day, probably everyone has. Do you think there are too many ‘national’ days?

Food

Friday Poll: Kale-Eating Contest

by JOHN ADAMS • 07/08/2016 • 4 Comments

<a href=”http://polldaddy.com/poll/9465449/”>Kale-Eating Contest</a> Perhaps sensing that conventional food-eating contests (involving hot dogs or other picnic foods) are losing popular support, contest organizers in Buffalo have decided to have a kale-eating contest, billing it as the “world’s healthiest eating championship,” with the slogan, “Kale Yeah!” What do you think?