some quick bites

a degustacion of what has been written about food in the past week:

1. cookstr.com: a site chock full of recipes from the more famous chefs.

2. chow.com: another fab site. i subscribed to their daily recipes, haven't been able to try any. but i just like knowing that they're there.

3. Carl Warner's Foodscapes is a testament to how some people play with their food. (the image on top is an example.)


4. A little snooty, but I've always liked how some restaurants harp on good ingredients. The Dragon Well Manor in Huangzhou believes in many trips to the market everyday for the freshest of produce.

and a new chef crush (who do i have so far? anthony bourdain and rocco dispirito)

Heston Blumenthal

I caught him last night on the Lifestyle Channel, and he was searching for the perfect burger. So really, a guy who worries about the perfect bite-size (two fingers), makes his own buns, patties and cheese slices (different kinds of cheese, a sherry infused with herbs and sodium citrite to bind them all), and harps on using the seeds and pulp of the tomato because that's where most of the umami taste is—well, is love.

He owns a restaurant called The Fat Duck.

And a quick recommendation: Foccacia in A-venue along makati ave.