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Appearance : If it wasn’t for the head, you’d swear you were looking at unfiltered apple cider. Opaque with a hint of deep yellow gold.

From a very weird article in the Wall Street Journal: Like the cupcake before it, the macaron, a French confection that resembles a pastel-colored sandwich cookie, is ready for its close-up.

Yes, yes, yes, “saison” is the French word for season. But this is not the answer I am looking for. Instead of 10th grade French classes, let’s look at the other topic of desire when some of us were sixteen years old – beer

Offered with no comment : …federal agents descended on Kraft’s offices near Chicago and confronted Mr. Watson.

If I have to point to one thing that I love about delving into the history of food, it’s uncovering influences upon diets that we have forgotten or have never had explained to us. I have a mind made for trivia.

Through Metafilter , I recently discovered news of a beer that states it has an Alcohol-by-Volume(ABV) of 41% . 41%?

A few weeks back, I asked the basic question of ” just what the hell makes up candy? ” There was some mulling about in the comment section, and a few of you suggested (and one said very definitively) that: Sugar, no flour = candy sugar + flour = pastry Coincidentally, this is close to the definition of candy that the state of Washington (my home state) is giving to candy as well, as they go down the road of taxation of any and all candy bars

Today is essentially a “reference post” kinda day, as I need to start gathering notes and ideas into one centralized location (for reasons soon to be made apparent). If your looking for food pontification, it’s best if you come back at a latter day

I am neck deep in research material, reviewing several different books and articles surrounding the history of candy and sugar.

There’s plenty of evidence out there that supports my thesis that I am a very naive person. Take the recent dispute between Amazon and MacMillan . Being a first time book author, I never gave Macmillan much thought