Food network may have cornered the market on cooking battles, but they have not won the war. At least, it doesn’t seem the case when it comes to manga/anime versions anyway. Shokugeki no Soma, aka Food Wars, a manga turned anime series, originally released in 2015, proves that food battling can be as intense as…
Ep.10 – Food Porn
Pedro and Janifer dig in as they talk about food porn: the hypersexualization of food and the origin of the term. And they also dig into a cronut, a creme puff, and some macaroons, and later, a very delicious paella. We use Carls Jr. ads as an example of porn in advertising of food. …and the overboard…
SmallBites: Onigiri by Tampopo
I love onigiri so much, you can say I’m an onigiri superfan. Japanese style sticky rice balls, wrapped in seaweed, stuffed with your choice of filling has always seemed like a perfect lunch snack. It also doesn’t help watching anime as a child and seeing all these characters eating rice balls. So when I spied…
SmallBites: Queens International Night Market, Part Deux
Queens International Night Market has launched their kickstarter campaign. To donate, head here. Several weeks ago I reported on the launching of the Queens International Night Market in Corona, Queens. In their initial launch, there were quite a few problems including large lines, electrical issues, port-o-potty availability, among others. Since their soft launch on April…
SmallBites: Paella Shack by Barraca
We continue our tasting session at UrbanSpace: NYC‘s Garment District location to try out one of their vendors “Paella Shack by Barraca”. This is an annex location for the brick and mortar restaurant Barraca a tapas, paella, sangria restaurant, located in Greenwich Ave. in Greenwich Village, NYC. Their Paella Shack at UrbanSpace has a smaller menu than…
Queens International Night Market Bites Off More Than It Can Chew
Residents from all five boroughs made their way to the parking lot of the New York Hall of Science last night to partake in the first Queens International Night Market. Privately sponsored, last night’s kick-off event is scheduled to be the first of many, slated to run every Saturday night from April 25th to October from 6PM –…
To Serve Pokemon – It’s a Cookbook
A few days ago, my TMI compatriot, Pedro and I recorded our first podcast revolving around pokemon. Part of the conversation involved pokemon cannon and then the question came up: What do you eat in the pokemon world? In the anime and in the Nintendo games, pokemon generally ate berries and food mixtures that would either give them powers…
Food Porn – So Good, You Might Take it to Bed
I grew up as the daughter of an award winning chef. As a child I served as my father’s human guinea pig, experimenting in culinary hybrids that he would use at home to develop new recipes at the restaurants where he worked. In other words, I know good food. I do find it fascinating though…