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Provocative New Food Porn Article Published

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Matt Yohalem, chef and owner of Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen in Santa Fe, likes food porn.  In fact he revels in it in his new article on the Fiery Foods & Barbecue SuperSite, “In Defense of Food Porn.” He writes:”Make no mistake, the masters of the culinary world resent both of the terms “molecular gastronomy” and “food porn” because …

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Scovie Deadline Hits in Two Weeks

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“Winning back-to-back Scovie awards two years in a row was fantastic and helped open the doors to increased sales, but winning the 2012 Grand Prize Award for Tasting took us to a whole new level! We have quadrupled our distribution, taken our product international, and have been featured in industry periodicals and blogs increasing our product awareness. Having the Scovie sticker on our bottles and in our advertising gives us that ‘little edge’, setting us apart from our competitors.”–Mike Bross, Pancali Foods

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Chile Pepper Honey: From the Adventures of Greedy dePu

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Thanks to a horde of bees and a little greed from yours truly, I’m pretty sure my neighbors now hate me. That’s what happens when you take your own sweet time calling a beekeeper to relocate honeybees from your garage. By which I mean, I let the hive grow untouched for three months once I noticed the busy little guys flying in and out of the top left corner of my garage door. I’d have let my minions stew longer but the neighbors threatened to call the authorities if I didn’t get rid of them. Fine. No honey for you, neighbors.

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The Gilroy Garlic Festival: Vampire-Free for 35 Years

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I love the Gilroy Garlic Festival almost as much as I do our own National Fiery Foods & Barbecue Show. For the last thirty five years, California’s garlic hub, Gilroy, has hosted an annual event dedicated to The Stinking Rose (aka garlic). The event was founded way back in 1979 by Dr. Rudy Melone, Val Filice, and Don Christopher. Mostly likely as a way to celebrate garlic and raise money for charities, not so much as a way to deal with Northern California’s notorious vampire infestation.