We all know that Sublime Doughnuts is the bestest doughnut shop in the ATL! Now, thanks to the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim team … the whole world knows it! WITNESS:
Oh yeah … Bakeshop has left Concentrics Restaurants! Don’t believe me? Well, I said it on twitter, so it must be true!
The Food Network has enlisted celebrity chef Tyler Florence to help bring food truck culture to reality TV. On Sunday August 15th, the Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race premiers at 10PM EST. Sadly, no members of Atlanta’s burgeoning community will be on the show. However, a number of notable street slinging foodies are featured. The complete list … after the jump!
Thank you Pizza Hut for making all of our lives a little better. Now if you could only make better pizza! Make sure you watch until the end so that you can learn how to do the dance! No word on whether or not this technique will spread to America and our beloved delivery drivers.
[Thanks to El Guapo for the email]
Steven Carse, known to you and me as The King of Pops, just went from the sidelines to the headlines. CNN just ran a little ditty on this fabricant de popsicle. While I haven’t loved every one of the multitude of popsicle concoctions I’ve sampled, I have appreciated all of them. My latest craves … the Georgia Peach and the Arnold Palmer. I just recently snagged me some Arnold Palmer a few days ago and I must say it’s the fohizzy!!! So sorry @caroline0814 and @katieK004, our arm wrestling match will have to wait until another day. You can follow Steven’s twitter feed for daily goodness, and check out this post for some background.
It’s nice to know I have friends in this world. One such concerned citizen (aka DatealiciousATL) was kind enough to send me this little warning. Ever wonder what happens when a blogger goes too far? Well, Thanks to director Joe Maggio, with help from celebrity chef Mario Batali, we now have an answer.
Bitter Feast is a small budget film that debuted just last week. It’s about JT Franks, an uppity food blogger with a pension for a sharp quill. No word on if and when it will hit the ATL. Although you might wish to think otherwise, JT Franks is not an anagram for Foodie Buddha.
During some of my intermittent and haphazard internet perusing, I stumbled upon really neat videos by Frank Ma and Eddie Hernandez, two well-known Atlanta chefs. Ma, who’s followed like a hawk by Atlanta’s Chinese gastronomes, recently sat down to talk about his arrival in the dirty South and the burgeoning food center that runs the length of Buford Highway. Though Ma has “officially” retired as a restaurateur since his short at Frank Ma South, his word still carries a great deal of weight. Check out this audio slide show:
Meanwhile, Taqueria Del Sol’s executive chef Eddie Hernandez also showed up … his video after the jump!
As I work through the daily grind, waiting to get back on the hobby horse, I though I’d treat y’all to some rocktastic awesomeness. Thank Goodby Silverstein for this milktastic sampling and big shout out to Rob (who does cool pictures!) for the tip! It’s a viral marketing campaign that takes the Got Milk! slogan to awesome new heights.
All this Atlanta burger chatter got me thinking: “Maybe it’s time for a diet.” Then, I got a late night request from The Legend (twitter) which brought me to my senses. Yes, maybe just one more day of gluttony (haven’t we all said that?).
You see, The Legend was taking a few people for a little afternoon birthday party at the world famous Ann’s Snack Bar. It’s one of the few well known burger joints across our land that claims to be world famous … and really IS. Despite rumors of its demise, brought on by the dominating Miss Ann herself, the Snack Bar is alive and well in East Atlanta.
José Andrés is one of those chefs I actually go gaga for. In fact, I’m so batshit crazy that I have a tentative plane flight scheduled for the not too distant future for one reason: To fly to Washington DC for a meal at minibar, one of JA’s kick ass restaurants. Yup people – the food dork in me is going to get on a plane, fly to another city (cuz that’s what you do on planes), get off said vessel … make a beeline for the Penn Quarter … get my grub on … then return to the plane for the long flight home. Yeah, I’m run-on sentence chalk full of bastardized punctuation excited. Okay, enough about me and my pseudo obsession with JA …
Last night, a video segment about Jose Andres aired on CBS’ TV Show 60-Minutes. The man, who lives just outside of DC, started his career working under the famed Ferran Adria at El Bulli. Since then, the sky hasn’t even been the limit for Andres. Awesomeness awaits … just click below:
You’re welcome!
Total luck as this was cropped from the background of one of my shots! Truly awesome! Who are you mysterious lover of the popsicle? Yes, this mysterious man of popsicle orgies might as well have been a plant, because if this doesn’t show a true love of The King of Pops, I don’t know what does!
