- Have you entered my bread contest yet? If not there’s still time!
- The Unknown Studio podcast interviews Nate Box from the soon-to-be-opened Elm Cafe.
- Get a free PDF copy of the Martha Stewart Summer Grilling Cookbook!
- Get a free vegetable gardening guide also! (But not from Martha.)
- Barry Callebaut says it may have come up with a chocolate bar that could fight wrinkles and slow the aging process.
- Some pizza in Naples may have been baked with wood from coffins. Hopefully that’s not the secret to the taste….
- OpenTable’s 2010 Diners’ Choice Awards for Best Late Night Find Restaurants (US only though)
- Cilantro Haters, It’s Not Your Fault – article from the New York Times on why cilantro tastes funny to some people
- Back in April, Gwyneth Paltrow’s GOOP newsletter had this article in it talking all about Chinese medicine-inspired recipes. The only problem was that, most of them didn’t use any actual Chinese ingredients!
- Old news, but did you know that this happened? Health Canada OKs addition of caffeine to non-cola soft drinks
And lastly, if you live in the Edmonton area you should check out the local Chowhound board. I took over moderating the Edmonton Restaurant Review of the Month (RROTM) a couple of months ago, and we need more people participating! Here’s some info for you:
The Edmonton Restaurant Review of the Month (RROTM) is an event where chowhounds nominate local restaurantsto review for the month (similar to a book club). The moderator of RROTM will use a randomizer to choose the restaurant for the upcoming month. Chowhounds try to eat there at least once during that month, and post their opinion in a RROTM specific thread. There are two monthly threads for RROTM – the discussion thread to choose the restaurant and the thread for the reviews.
June discussion: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/710328?tag=main_body;topic-710328
June review thread: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/711446
May review thread: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/705743
The Brûlée Blog 
Good for you – all these initiatives. I know nothing about Chowhound except that I use it when I travel. Please refer your reviewers to MY contest to! 🙂 wink wink! Mine is actually over… yesterday. I have to yet announce the winner. Great stuff. How do you keep up with it all? I will be going through this list in depth, tonight.
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Valerie
How did you comment so quickly! LOL
I tend to e-mail interesting stuff to myself to post later. Nothing as detailed as Sharon’s posts though!
Thanks so much for the shoutout! Hope you enjoyed the episode.
I’d love to do more food-based stuff… maybe even a short monthly segment. Would something like that interest you and some of your fellow food bloggers?
I think you would probably get a lot of interest from local food bloggers! Shoot me an e-mail if you’d like to discuss further.
Thanks for the article, I really liked it a lot. For sure you could get alot of interest from food bloggers that are close to you. It sounds like an awesome idea.