Some may say they eat to live but most will agree that you should live to eat. And we should be able to enjoy and experience this passion for eating. Not in a ?I-want-to-be-obese way? but just enjoying a good meal, period. In this fast-paced world, it is nice to stop for a while and just bask in the flavor of the ingredients.
Food magazines and food TV shows are becoming a staple nowadays. Long gone was the time when only Martha Stewart has a successful cooking show. Today, cool dudes are creating their own cooking shows and they talk about food and their love for it in a totally new way. As they say, chefs are the new rock stars.
There are few sites for food lovers to give restaurant reviews in their own area. You do not have to a professional food critic to join, you just have to be a passionate foodie to enjoy reading and writing about food. This will help other food lovers out there to share their experiences and hopefully others will also find their ?good eats?. You can build a profile for yourself and meet other food fanatic. You can review a restaurant on your part of town or make a list of your favorite restaurant and share it with other ?food critics?. Make them enjoy your experienced as well. You are the storyteller ? talk about food ? write about the atmosphere, taste, cost, service and other things that catches your eye.
Everyone has their own opinion and they are entitled to it. When giving restaurant reviews, be honest. Give an in-depth picture of the meal, describe the decor and rate their service. Restaurant a review is a big part of marketing. It can make or break a restaurant ? influential food critics are respected for their taste and impeccable standard when it comes to food. Food critics are paid for their opinions ? their fee would depend on their reputation for being honest and up to standards review. We are not professional critics here, but our opinions count as well. We are a network of foodie who loves to eat and who loves to talk about food. Our goal is to spread the word about where to dine and where to find tender meat and the freshest herb.
People are plagued by fast food mentality and have forgotten how meals should be eaten ? in a table with a glass of wine and good conversation. Zipping through drive-through and eating in between conversion through your mobile phone is not the concept of a good meal. Stop and smell the food, sit down and enjoy your meal with nothing but just the flavor of a good food. The mission is clear ? bring back the value of savoring food and life; to be able to try new things and reach out for new experiences. Take your time to enjoy the moments of your life ? relish the moment of serenity that can be found in savoring good food amidst the chaos around us.
(Yeah, I know. First there was Bill Brasky. Don't interrupt me; I'm building up to something here.)
Then, there was Chuck Norris, Mr. T, and Jack Bauer.
And now, another modern cult hero goes under the microscope. Ladies and gentlemen, for the first -- and very likely last -- time anywhere, I'm proud to present:
Thirty Facts About... Alton Brown
#1. Alton Brown grinds his own peppercorns. With his teeth.
#2. Alton Brown's chili cheese fries are healthier than raw carrots. Even after he adds the bacon and lard.
#3. Alton Brown brushes his teeth with wasabi and gargles with pickle brine. But still his breath smells like lemon merengue.
#4. Alton Brown can boil a three-minute egg in thirty-seven seconds.
#5. When Alton Brown was born, he collected the hospital slop they'd left for his mother and made it into an zesty, appetizing goulash. The dish fed the entire maternity ward for a week.
#6. In the first, as-yet-unaired episode of Iron Chef America, Alton Brown single-handedly defeated an all-star team of Bobby Flay, Cat Cora, and Hiroyuki Sakai. The secret ingredient was 'whimsy'.
#7. Alton Brown doesn't reduce sauces. He demoralizes sauces.
#8. Alton Brown prepares his fugu blindfolded, with one chopstick and a plastic spork. Alton Brown ain't afraid of no chump neurotoxin.
#9. Alton Brown's blender has four speeds: 'stir', 'mix', 'frappe', and 'plasmify'.
#10. Alton Brown can split a pineapple in half using only his pinkies. For coconuts, though, he has to use his thumbs.
#11. Alton Brown knows where capers come from. And he grows his own, on a Chia pet in the pantry.
#12. On Rachel Ray's show, she shows people where to eat for less than forty dollars a day. When Alton Brown eats, people pay him.
#13. Alton Brown slices ham so thin, it can only be seen using an electron microscope.
#14. Some knives can slice through a tin can and still cut a tomato. Alton Brown's knives can slice through a Pontiac, and still cut a tin can.
#15. Grown men have been known to weep for joy in the mere presence of Alton Brown's vinagrette. His hollandaise sauce can kill a man from sheer ecstacy at forty paces.
#16. Alton Brown can eat just one Lay's potato chip. If he ever bothered to eat food he didn't make himself, that is.
#17. Alton Brown once got carried away slicing carrots, and julienned his cutting board. Undaunted, he sauteed the splinters in olive oil and spices -- and they were delicious.
#18. Every Burger King Alton Brown has walked into has immediately closed forever -- try as they might, they simply can't 'do it his way'.
#19. Alton Brown can pair a wine with any food -- including hot dogs, ice cream, raw eggs, Alpo, sawdust, and soylent green. It's people!
#20. Alton Brown's cakes don't rise. They ascend.
#21. Some meats are so tender, they seem to melt in your mouth. Alton Brown's meats are so tender, he's had entire turkeys vanish into thin air.
#22. Alton Brown's no saint. But if his chicken Kiev cures one more kid's leprosy, the church will reconsider the evidence.
#23. Alton Brown doesn't whip potatoes. Alton Brown's potatoes whip themselves, if they know what's good for them.
#24. Alton Brown's other car is the Wienermobile.
#25. Alton Brown's show is called 'Good Eats', because 'Multiple Shuddering Mouthgasms' didn't play with the network's target demographic.
#26. Alton Brown's freezer operates at minus-twenty-seven degrees. Kelvin.
#27. Alton Brown once prepared shrimp gumbo for a cooking competition, using only salt, water, canned Spam, and a packet of Arby's 'Horsey Sauce'. He took second place. He would have won, but one of the judges was allergic to shellfish.
#28. Alton Brown can fit three hundred and forty-two cookies on a standard-sized baking sheet. Without any touching.
#29. When Alton Brown slices onions, the onions cry.
#30. Alton Brown was once asked to participate in a blind orange juice taste test. He was the only person able to successfully identify the brand, style, vintage, temperature, pH level, distance to the orchard, age of the grove trees, and the names of the workers picking the fruit. Including the one who needs to start washing after bathroom breaks.
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