http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/mouthing-off Food and Wine Editors' Blog en-us Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:44:17 -0500 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:49:49 -0500 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2010/2/4/Whoopies-for-Valentines-Day For anyone looking for a sweet worth mail-ordering for Valentine’s Day, or any day, B.Hall Baker’s new mini whoopie pies are now available online. Washington, DC-based Beryl Hall, a former Hill staffer, keeps the calories low by keeping t... Baking Holidays Desserts Thu, 04 Feb 2010 12:49:49 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2010/2/4/Whoopies-for-Valentines-Day Emily Kaiser http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/12/22/A-Little-Caviar-Splurge A few months ago, wine editor Ray Isle and I enjoyed some amazing caviar at Atelier Robuchon, made all the more intriguing because Joël Robuchon called it his official caviar and said it came from China. We were hoping someday we'd be able t... Entertaining Holidays Chefs Ingredients Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:09:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/12/22/A-Little-Caviar-Splurge Emily Kaiser http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/12/18/Great-FoodBook-Gifts Our gift guide this year is organized around six of our favorite cookbooks of 2009, from Ad Hoc at Home to Down Home with the Neelys. Here are four more standouts for your holiday-shopping consideration.1) A Boy After the Sea To benefit a charity nam... Cookbooks Holidays Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:34:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/12/18/Great-FoodBook-Gifts Emily Kaiser http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/23/Thanksgiving-Tasting-Tour  Inspired by a trip to Italy during which she walked and ate herself silly, Moira Campbell (a friend of mine, full disclosure) quit her job in restaurant PR this past summer to form Rum & Blackbird, a company that gives tasting tours in New ... Holidays Chefs Restaurants Events Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:00:24 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/23/Thanksgiving-Tasting-Tour Kelly Snowden http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations What can someone like me, a girl living in Queens, NY, possibly learn from a bunch of Park Avenue socialites with names like Muffie Potter Aston? A lot, I learned, after I read Park Avenue Potluck Celebrations, a new book by New York Times columnist ... Entertaining Cookbooks Holidays Events Style Recipes News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:04:56 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/11/9/Park-Avenue-Potluck-Celebrations Alessandra Bulow http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/30/Halloween-Dress-Like-a-Chef Scrounging for a last-minute Halloween costume? Get inspiration from some of our favorite chefs’ ensembles in F&W's "Dress Like a Chef" slideshow, like Mario Batali's now-iconic look: red wig pulled in a low ponytail, bagg... Events Holidays Chefs Style News Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:54:45 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/10/30/Halloween-Dress-Like-a-Chef Alessandra Bulow http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/10/The-Peeps-Are-Coming Forget ham: The real reason to be excited for Sunday is that the Washington Post will announce the winners of their third annual Peeps diorama contest. Last year, they got more than 800 submissions. That means more than 800 people took time out of th... Holidays Recipes News Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:13:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/10/The-Peeps-Are-Coming Emily Kaiser http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/10/An-AllNatural-Egg-Dyeing-Experiment My mom lives by the mantra that all-natural is always better. So last weekend when I went to visit, I found her in the kitchen ranting about Paas, the popular Easter-egg dye. After many years of Paas-stained fingers and perfectly colored Paas eggs, m... Holidays Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:33:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/10/An-AllNatural-Egg-Dyeing-Experiment Jen Murphy http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/8/A-Vegan-Passover If retweeting is re-posting a twitter feed, what's the word for re-blogging a Facebook status update? Retatting? This is a retat. Last night I got so excited I mentioned this on my Facebook page. A vegan friend is coming for Passover, and while c... Entertaining Holidays Recipes Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:36:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/8/A-Vegan-Passover Emily Kaiser http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/7/The-Best-Pizza-of-Spring Easter is this Sunday. This means that my mother has started baking her annual batch of pizza rustica using a recipe from her aunt, a stubborn woman who, because of a lamp, did not speak to her sister (my grandmother) for six years. Per this aunt&#39... Baking Cooking Holidays Recipes Ingredients Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:23:14 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/4/7/The-Best-Pizza-of-Spring Emily McKenna http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/2/12/LastMinute-Valentines-Gifts-for-Every-Budget I have a disproportionate amount of guy friends, which means I usually start getting distraught calls around this time of year (i.e., two days before Valentine’s Day) asking for gift suggestions. Case in point: Over the weekend, I asked my newl... Desserts Cooking Wine Holidays Recipes News Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:56:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2009/2/12/LastMinute-Valentines-Gifts-for-Every-Budget Jen Murphy http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Hostess-Gifts-on-the-Fly My friends must have been inspired by F&W’s list of 20 spectacular holiday parties in the December issue because this month has turned into one nonstop party – cocktail parties, cookie swap parties, Mad Men–themed parties, Monda... Entertaining Holidays Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:16:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Hostess-Gifts-on-the-Fly Jen Murphy http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Fish-and-Fun-with-the-FW-Family Since it's just two days until Christmas, we all decided it would be nice to start the festivities a little early. When F&W wine guru Ray Isle asked how we in the Test Kitchen were, I replied, "We'd be better if we were drinking ... Holidays Test Kitchen Tue, 23 Dec 2008 12:34:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/23/Fish-and-Fun-with-the-FW-Family Grace Parisi http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/22/Top-Holiday-Cocktails Recently, writer Jonathan Miles pondered that traditional holiday drink: mulled wine. It's fragrant, it's soothing and it’s the official beverage of Charles Dickens's “A Christmas Carol.” The only problem? No one actuall... Holidays Cocktails Recipes Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:25:00 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/22/Top-Holiday-Cocktails Ratha Tep http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/19/Where-To-Eat-Out-During-The-Holidays When oil prices went through the roof this summer and airlines started charging all sorts of never-before-seen fees, a lot of my friends were hunkering down, forgoing any air travel, and for the first time, using that odd blend of words: staycation. ... Holidays Travel Restaurants Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:18:25 -0500 http://172.31.0.190/blogs/mouthing-off/2008/12/19/Where-To-Eat-Out-During-The-Holidays Ratha Tep