Home brewing is easy, but it can seem intimidating at first. Checkout this great video from Brooklyn Brew Shop. While your there, you may as well go a head an order some brewing supplies from them.
Or, if your in Chicago like we are, check out our...
Have you been looking for some Advanced Milk Proteins or some color changing Temperature-Sensitive Glass? Take a look at this site: Inventables! From food related items to sporting goods this site will let you imagination run and suck-up you time....
So the site is in Spanish, but from what I can gather this series of utensils is inspired by the patterns of nature and includes both serving and dinnerware.
Regardless it looks beautiful.
The trouble with stir fry. We all have experienced it. Water chestnuts flying everwhere, baby corn tumbling across the stove top and then Bam! A shrimp in the eye.
Well put down those safety goggles friend. Wok cooking just got a whole lot easier...
I know it is hard to tell if this warm weather is here to stay, but it has got me chomping at the bit to start gardening. As if the universe is encouraging me, I keep stumbling onto ingenious gardening solutions.
The first thiing to pop up o...
I am not going to beat around the bush here... I love soda. In my opinion there is a soda for every occasion. Don't get me wrong, I am a lover of beer, wine, spirits, iced tea, juice... you name it, but there are certain things, say pi...
Generally speaking I have not fallen prey to the onslaught of cutsie kitchen utensils that are available everywhere from Sur La Table to Target. I don't have anything against say... a tou'can' opener, but I usually like my food to be the bes...
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Ever wish you could boil that third grade macaroni art and have it retain all it's fancy glitter and gold, well now there's a solution!
Esslack Food Spray turns that boring old food into blingtasstic wizzack fizzood!
The spray c...
The Olive Oil Times is just that, an online newspaper devoted to all thing olive oil.
The web based publication is packed with recipes, reviews, science, tips and much more.
Sign up for their newsletter or check back frequently for your late...
Family Farm Expo at UIC Forum. It is a three day event of locally grown and responsibly produced food and artisanal goods!
This three day event runs Thursday through Saturday March 11th to 13th, 2010.
From the FamilyFarm web site:
Sweet, looks like Half Acre will be ditching it's bottles for the more beer and environmentally friendly cans.
The brewery plans on switching to 16oz 4 packs of tallboys. I can't wait to get my hands on these. Camping just got even more enjoyable....
I was just flitting around the internet, reading blogs and such and I stumbled onto this very interesting and useful tidbit by Phil Vettel at The Stew. It seems that a number of Chicago restaurants have decided to extend their restaurant wee...
Let’s face it. As much as I might love to cook, and as much as I claim that chopping vegetables is relaxing, there are those days. Long hours at the office, boss yelled at me, house is a wreck, fridge only has celery and sardines…s...
This Saturday marks the opening of Zullo's, an exciting new addition to the Chicago French Market...
Zullo's has been a long time favorite of the team at Social Bite - we just can't get enough of those Zeppole di mela (handmade apple c...
Aging wine in barrels is not a new thing. In fact I'd wager a a bet every wine drinker here has enjoyed a nice oaked Chardonay at one point or another.
Aging wine in Whiskey barrels though? Wow.
Of course I wouldn't be writing about it if it hadn'...
If you were a little slow on the uptake when it came to getting reservations for Chicago's restaurant week this year, fear not, you still have an opportunity to partake in some mouth-watering goodness on the cheap during Chicago Chef Week.
From Ma...
Canned beer gets a bad rap. Long gone are the days of aluminum or metallic flavor being imparted by low quality cans. In fact, your chances of a quality brew increase when drinking from a pop-top.
You see cans keep out things that beer doesn't lik...
I've always wanted to do a home brew barrel aged beer. Aged oak barrels can impart so many great characteristics like rich vanilla flavors and delightfully dry tannins - not to mention leaving behind the "spirits" of their former h...
Mark Reigelman designed this bite silverware to raise awareness of both hunger and obesity issues worldwide.
The design is both stunning and engaging and I think conveys the message well.
I'd love to have these on my table, how bout you?
New York upstart A.B Smeby Bittering Company has started a line of local, seasonal bitters in NY.
The line of bitters includes cranberry, vanilla, lemon and hibiscus among others. I'm really into this idea. I've wanted to start making my own bitte...
Half Acre's Ginger Twin red IPA will be officially available this Friday in growler form, bottles soon to follow.
The best part is all gingers will get a discount.
From the site:
*Anyone with God given red hair will be granted an 8% discount...
Hot on the heals of Schorschbrau's Schorschbock 40, Brewdog has reclaimed their world's strongest beer title (formerly held by tactical nuclear penguin) with their " Brewdog's argument that it's trying to...
There are few things that I enjoy more than having a great meal. I love to eat, I love to cook and I love to go out to dinner. Lucky me, one of my favorite markets in Chicago, August, located at 1500 W. Division, is a grocery store tha...
Moleskin has released a new collection of "Passions" journals with layouts optimised for recipes, wine notes, wellness, film, books and music.
I love moleskins and these new targeted layouts look like great gifts for the food/art lover in your lif...
I have a completely irrational love of vegetables. I will pick out the vegetables from any dish and eat them, leaving everything else on my plate. So, when I came across a tuna recipe listing two of my favorite vegetables right in the ti...
So... you waited until the last minute to make your Valentine’s Day reservations, didn’t you? You really want to impress your date AND you want something romantic, delicious, authentic and sourced from local farms? You’re k...
For safety reasons the British Design Council requested a redesign of the classic pint glass. The idea being to cut down on broken glasses and shards from them, Designbridge stepped up to the challenge.
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For those among us who are Ommegang fans listen up and listen well... there are two... not one, but TWO excellent Ommegang Brewmasters dinners to be had in Chicago this month:
The Chiquita banana's sticker has been a mainstay of the produce section for years. I can remember mom peeling the sticker from ripe bananas and sticking it playfully to my lapel. My brothers and I would collect them like badges of honor, so...
I have already made my plans for Wednesday March 24th, and I encourage you to do the same... I will be attending the Three Floyd's beer dinner at The Wit Hotel's State and Lake Restaurant.
If you haven't visited State and Lake before, you ar...
Notcot pointed me at these awesome baggy wine coats and wine breathers by MENU.
The former is a stylish custom bag for carrying your boxed wine in. The bag resizes as you drink and fits multiple tap sizes, so any box of wine should work....
Red & White, the first Occasional Rarity release for 2010 will start hitting the shelves beginning February 1st. The beer began shipping to wholesalers this week.
Now I just have to wait a little bit longer for Aprihop!
One of my favorite parts of a Kim/Dan dinner party is the moment I hear “Go ahead and open up anything interesting from the rack.” With the exception of a few boundaries that have been hammered out over a history of pillaging their wine...
Ok, so I covered my engineering friends with the Cocktail Blueprints for Engineers post, but what about you typography geeks?
Fret not my visually astute pals we've got you covered, in sans-serif at least...read more tags:
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Shall I ever be able to adequately articulate my passion for you? I must try lest my heart explode from holding it in. I will let Aeros guide my pen, Aphrodite move my words and myself, the mere mortal, feel the pain of a p...
I am a lover of cheese, but I am was woefully uneducated on the subject, so I decided to do a little research to see where in Chicago I might be able to get better educated on the topic. What I found wasread more tags:
This re-usable sixpack holder looks like the perfect thing for bringing multiple beers to the next shin-dig.
I wonder how well it holds up with large format beers in it?
What do you want in your stocking or under your menorah this holiday season? My list is longer than I am proud of, but what can I say? I’m greedy. Here is a list of some of the things I am currently coveting, in no particular order:
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