Quick Bites
- Five ways to trick yourself into eating less. [Newsweek]
- The mulefoot pig being served at Blackbird on 10/19 is not the Reader's Dee-Dee. Start placing bets now on if she's in utero. [Food Chain]
- Will Allen, founder of MIlwaukee Based CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) organization Growing Power is the recipient of a MacArthur Genius grant. [Drive-Thru]
- The Bristol in Bucktown is now open. first looks, as always, at LTHforum. [LTHForum]
- "Mariscos El Veneno really shouda named their restaurant 'Los Cojones Grandes.' Instead, they went with 'The Seafood Poison.'” [Chicago Gluttons]
- Stolpman brightens up an epicurious post with her photography. Rock on, Laura! [Epicurious]
- Finally, this is not for the squeamish. We contacted Monica Eng the other day regarding her "conscious carnivore" post; we still find lobsters and crabs the hardest to kill. epicurious has video of Eric Ripert showing the most humane way to kill a lobster. [epicurious]
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