‘It starts to feel a bit like TETRIS’
Australian James Gulliver Hancock is drawing every building in NYC. But it’s a bit more than that. Blog here.
In the video (at bottom) he explains his approach.
Found via Flavorwire
Above, Jessie J videos: Price Tag and Do It Like a Dude.
Below, Jessie J live performances, from the latest SNL.
Album drops in the US April 12, 2011.
‘Poking through antiques stores while traveling through the Texas Panhandle, Bill Waters stumbled across a tattered old ledger book filled with formulas.’
The Dr Pepper company says this ain’t it. Others think otherwise.
The formula in the ‘Castles’ ledger purchased by Bill Waters contains (among legible ingredients) ‘gentian root, sweet flag root, mandrake root, wahoo bark, cinnamon bark, cardamom, coriander, cloves, diluted alcohol, syrup, glycerin’ and is labeled, ‘D Peppers Pepsin Bitters.’
Like another pharmacy invention, Coca-Cola, Dr Pepper’s secret flavoring formula is the subject of much conjecture.
Time frame and location are all right. More info here and here.
The ‘D Peppers Pepsin Bitters’ page from ‘Castles Formulas’
The birthplace of Dr Pepper: Morrison’s Old Corner Drugstore, Waco, TX
1960 advertisement (top) found via Jon Williamson
Right now I have no idea what time it is.
So I don’t know if it’s the right time to drink my Dr Pepper.
Photo found via Marc Gutierrez
‘Mark Preston discovered early California recipes while cataloging rare books for the UCLA library’
I picked up Mark Preston’s California Mission Cookery at one of the missions lining El Camino Real, somewhere between Santa Clara and San Luis Obispo. Or Santa Barbara. One of them.
The cookbook is all about Californio Cuisine, a long lost Spanish-influenced cooking style using local ingredients. The food of the original missions.
I’ve made the Beef Jerky soup a few times. [Read more →]
Hattie Carter’s Great Cooking Ideas is this phone book sized thing that came from a garage sale.
Published in 1978 – on really cheap newsprint (just like real phone books) – this thing is quite a gem. Nothing I’ve ever made from its pages has ever let me down.
Cuisines covered are surprisingly global (for the time) – curries and sukiyaki mixed in with a homespun collection of casseroles and bakes. Not a design masterpiece tho; cute clip art-like illustrations punctuate large Helvetica type – with heds set in Souvenir, odd floral borders abound.
The Italian Beef Stew is a fantastic mix of flavors. Here’s the recipe. [Read more →]
‘This track is the representation of GLUTTONY as being an obsession for the classics of soul music.’
Music video for Micha Soul’s Soul Food. Video produced by Frame24.
The Commodores’ Slippery When Wet.
Below, title/instrumental track off their first album; featured in Boogie Nights.
The Commodores: Machine Gun
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