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Amuse Bouche: Flava Flav’s Chicken Restaurant

Famous rapper/reality show star Flava Flav will be opening up a new fried chicken restaurant in Iowa that he plans to debut across the nation as a chain restaurant. Flava Flav’s fried chicken secret? He seasons the chicken along with the breading. Holla.

Source: January 24, 2011 Eater.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 25th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: New Tokyo Trend- Cat Cafes

Over the past five years, a new trend has emerged in Japan: cat cafes, or neko (Japanese for cat) cafes. These are literally coffee shops that have a bunch of cats hanging out in them, and people pay up to $12 an hour to sit and drink coffee near the felines. They aren’t allowed to touch or pet them, which is even more strange, because that means they can only stare at the cats from around their coffee.

Source: February 1, 2011 CNN.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 25th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Pepperoni Not Artisan Enough?

Even though pepperoni is one of the most popular pizza toppings in the United States, many are surprised to learn that it is an Italian-American invention, not an Italian one. Pepperoni does not even exist in Italian culture, which is why many U.S. artisan pizza shops feature various salamis on pizza, but never pepperoni. Mario Batali’s Greenwich pizza shop, Otto, is one of the only in the country that makes artisan pepperoni for their pizzas.

Source- February 1, 2011 NY Times article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.~LTG!

February 25th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: World’s Oldest Wine Making Operation Discovered!

Archaeologists have discovered a 6,000 year old wine making operation in a cave 60 miles from Mount Ararat in Armenia. This proves that another set of people were making wine before ancient pharaohs in Egypt. They uncovered a wine press, vat, grape seeds, and plant pigments that prove red wine was made there.

Source: January 11, 2011 Gawker Article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.~LTG!

February 16th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Screw Cancer, Scientists Focus on Making a better Jalapeno Popper

Introducing “NuMex Jalmundo”, a newly engineered variety of pepper designed specifically to make the popular appetizer, jalapeno poppers. The New Mexico State University chili pepper breeding program created the pepper by crossing a jalapeno with a bell pepper, creating a large, medium-hot pepper perfect for stuffing.

Source: January 19, 2011 Slate Article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 16th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Food Network Ratings Decline

A New York Post article revealed that The Food Network’s ratings are down 10.3% from 2009 among the 25-54 year old crowd. The network produced more reality programming in 2010 in hopes of gaining attention from a younger male audience, but competitors like TLC, Travel Channel and even Food Network-owned Cooking Channel have cut into The Food Network audience over the past year.

Source: January 20, 2011 Eater Article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 16th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: What’s For Dinner? Let a Machine Tell You!

Thanks to the smart folks at Kraft and Intel, there are now Kraft store kiosks that can scan your face, determine your age and demographic, and make meal suggestions based on that information. Of course, all suggestions will contain Kraft products, but also a bonus–machines will give a free sample of Oreos or Triscuits to customers.

Source: January 14, 2011 Fast Company.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 9th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Street food rides get pimped

As the trend of gourmet street cart food has been taking off, so has the business of custom-outfitting their vehicles. Like San Francisco’s Le Truc, a bustaurant that is literally an old school bus fitted with a complete and functioning open kitchen and seating for customers.

Source: January 14, 2011 NY Times.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 9th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Yet another stupid food lawsuit

Ohio rep. Dennis Kucinich is suing a congressional cafeteria over an olive pit he encountered while eating a sandwich wrap. The pit in question apparently caused multiple dental surgeries and “loss of enjoyment”, and the rep is suing for $150,000.

Source: January 27, 2011 Slate article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 9th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: Junk Food Marketing Aimed at Kids

When the UN meets in September, they plan on discussing junk food marketing aimed at children, and some countries may add voluntary on ads similar to tobacco ad limitations.

Source: January 21, 2011 Eater.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 4th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: New food trend- homemade pet food

As more and more people start to care about what they eat, and whether it was raised humanely and on organic food, more people start to care about what they feed their pets. After all, if processed food is bad for humans, it has to be bad for pets too, right? Two butcher shops- Marlow & Daughters in Brooklyn and Avedano’s Holly Park Market in San Francisco have been selling pet food made from grass-fed locally raised meat, and sells for around $4 a pound. Pet owners are also trying their own hand at making dog and cat food from scratch, as a recent New York Times.com article revealed.

Source: January 18, 2011 NY Times.com article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 4th, 2011
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Amuse bouche: McDonald’s Japan Using Fattier Menu than USA

McDonald’s in Japan is using a different strategy than their U.S. counterpart, which is now focusing on offering healthy meal options. It is offering increasingly fatty burgers named after U.S. locations, and promoting it by only offering it for a limited time. So why would the Japanese, who traditionally have eaten a rice and fish diet and been slender, want to buy an Idaho burger topped with bacon, cheese and a fried hash brown? Because burgers represent a piece of American culture, so it is more exciting to the Japanese than rice and fish.

Source: January 12, 2011 Wall Street Journal Online article

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Amuse Bouche: Noun. Etymology: French: literally, entertains the mouth. A small, complimentary appetizer served at the beginning of a meal to awaken the taste buds. Leena Eats definition: a quick shot of gastronomic knowledge for the brain.

~LTG!

February 4th, 2011
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