He still puts on a white linen suit every morning, rides in a chauffeured white Cadillac, visits Kentucky Fried Chicken’s white column headquarters and plugs his “finger lickin’ good” chicken around the country. But Harland D Sanders, everyone’s favourite Kentucky colonel, is disturbed about what has happened to his chicken
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Apr 20, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
When fried chicken went awry
Jan 11, 2012 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
Police on an Olympic Doughnut break, Footscray
Sausage sizzle or popup charcuterie?
Photo Credit: Wooster Collective I worked in a food truck for a few months in 1996. The truck parked at automotive parts swap meets and out the front of the cow pavilion at the Royal Easter Show. I cooked hundreds of frozen hamburgers, industrial soy-beef patties defrosting on the grill
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Apr 28, 2009 | Post by: Phil Lees No Comments
French Fry Coated Hotdog vs Molecular Gastronomy
Newley spots a french fry coated hotdog, I cook a french fry coated hotdog, then friends create the sort of french fry coated hotdog that would make Herve This or Ferran Adria cry tears of simultaneous joy and fear. Austin Bush and talented chef collaborator Hock have cooked a sous-vide
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Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 87 Comments
French Fry Coated Hot Dog On a Stick: The Recipe
I shouldn’t be left unattended in the kitchen. One thing that struck me about finding the French fry coated hot dog on a stick in South Korea was that they were doing it wrong, the sort of cultural misunderstanding that happens when one culture cooks the food of an unrelated
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Apr 14, 2008 | Post by: Phil Lees 55 Comments
French Fry Coated Bacon on a Stick
When Brillat-Savarin said that “the discovery of a new dish confers more happiness on humanity than the discovery of a new star” he perhaps hadn’t spent much of his time near the deep fryer. This dish confers on humanity nothing but moral decline. I present to you french fry coated
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