Choturkey Chocolate Turkey for Thanksgiving

Gayle's Choturkey is truly a chocolate lover's dream. It's got 5 pounds of milk, dark and white chocolate inside. This bird cracks open to unveil milk chocolate wishbones, truffle drumsticks and two pounds of Gayle's stuffing: caramel popcorn, chocolate covered popcorn, roasted cashews and pastel chocolate cherries. And if that's not enough for you, there's also the solid chocolate acorns and maple leaves that decorate the outside. Looks like we'll be dieting for days after this Thanksgiving. 11.17.2009

Chambar Ale: Civilized Debauchery

We love a beer designed to pair with great foods, hence, we're enamored with the fancy Chambar Ale from Vancouver—a beverage so fine its label is screen printed in 22 carat gold onto amber glass. Check it out on Lovely Package.

11.11.2009

Food News Journal for Serious Foodies

Serious foodies take note. Food News Journal is a delectable new site and weekly newsletter devoted to finding the best events, articles, essays, and blog posts on food. FNJ is beautifully designed, easy to navigate, and delivers the daily dish on our other favorite topic: food. 11.10.2009

Fall Green Smoothie Recipe

Beauty guru Kimberly Snyder, founder of Envision Beauty has shared her secret to glowing, healthy skin—and it's green. We'll be drinking our green smoothie at lunch today and blending batches all season long. You can check out more beautifying recipes on Kimberly's website.

FALL GREEN SMOOTHIE RECIPE

• 3-4 full leaves of dinosaur kale OR 5 smaller leaves of curly kale
• 3 stalks of celery
• 2 Bosc pears
• 1 banana
• 1 1/2 cups of cold filtered water 
• (Not part of Kimberly's recipe but we add lots of pineapple chunks for flavor)

Strip the kale leaves (whichever type you are using) off of the stem, discard stems, and blend all the rest of the ingredients until smooth. The smoothie tastes best cold, so be sure to use cold water. If your blender is not very strong, and takes longer to blend (thereby warming the smoothie), make the mixture the night before and keep it in the fridge overnight. The potion keeps for a maximum of up to 3 days in the fridge. Makes 4 servings.

10.16.2009

I Know How To Cook: Now In English

We believe in cooking bibles: Italy’s The Silver Spoon, Spain’s 1080 Recipes, California’s The Art of Simple Food. There is a reason why foodies worship at these international altars. Until recently, France’s most popular cookbook (since 1932 mind you) has only been available in French. Our hypothesis suggests that this was due to the political maneuvering of a secret lobby comprised of French women intent on guarding the secret to eating bread and cheese ad-hoc and staying svelt. Thankfully it seems they’ve finally been defeated: Get ready to raid the cultural pantry. The 1400-recipes-strong I Know How To Cook is now available in English—which means you’ll be cooking up authentic tarte tatin like it’s no big.It seems that our quest for the ultimate boeuf borguignon recipe may soon reach its successful conclusion.

10.14.2009