Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Sep 25, 2008 2:30PM

• 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]