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Why Cronuts Are Worth The Hype
Or at least could be.
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When the subject of cronuts came up in a recent BuzzFeed editorial meeting, once everyone's eyes had stopped rolling, someone told this story: A friend of hers went to Dominique Ansel's now-famous bakery in NYC to buy a cronut — the croissant-donut hybrid Ansel invented in May. After waiting in line the requisite two hours at 6am, the friend somehow came back from the bakery with a canelé, thinking it was a cronut, and said it was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted.
It probably was. Therein lies the irony of the cronut craze: YES OF COURSE they are worth the hype. Stop rolling your eyes at cronuts, food lovers: These flaky, tender glorious treats are handmade under the direction of one of America's most talented pastry chefs. This is not a Taco Bell waffle taco we are talking about. Ansel started his formal culinary training in France when he was sixteen years old, spent seven years traveling the world to open shops for Fauchon, and was the executive pastry chef for Daniel Boulud.
You know what else is worth hype? Ansel's canelé — a dessert whose history traces back to at least 17th century France. Also amazing: his Chausson aux Pommes, Pain Au Chocolate, and Sablé Breton. Most of these are based on the same technique he used to invent cronuts: a pastry dough intricately laced with massive amounts of butter that serves as the base for most Vienoisseries, a style of classic French pastry that caught on in 19th Century France and now apparently includes the cronut.
The line outside Ansel's bakery on June 27
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A recent Jacksonville tv news broadcast about a local bakery's imitation cronut goes on and on about how hard it is the make cronuts. "Fold in a block of butter, roll it out, fold it in thirds, roll it out, fold it in thirds, about three times," the announcer says.
Sure it's hard, but that's just how you make any croissant dough.
Most Americans know what a croissant is. But most of them have never had a decent one — and certainly not one as good as Dominique Ansel's. Classic French pastry, especially Vienoisserie, are absolutely amazing — both because of the flavor and texture and because they exist, meaning someone somewhere figured out all the steps, temperatures, and chemical reactions necessary to make them so perfectly. Baking pastry as good as Ansel's is incredibly time consuming, exacting, and difficult — and for all of those reasons, good French pastry is not easy to find and is under appreciated in this country.
Until, maybe, now. If it takes some fancy fried croissant dough with a funny name to teach us how amazing good pastry is, then that's just fine. If that's not what happens, this media explosion is a wasted opportunity. (Except by Ansel, who recently turned the cronut's success into charitable donations to NYC's Food Banks.)
So here's how you an make cronuts worth the hype: Visit your best local bakery — maybe even that very one that ripped off Ansel's cronut and is now selling "dossants." Buy a "croughnut," or whatever, but here's the important part: BUY SOMETHING ELSE.
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How Robots Are Stealing Your Dinner Reservations
High frequency trading comes to the restaurant world.
Image courtesy of Threadless.
Like a lot of young foodies in San Francisco, Diogo Mónica works in tech. And as an engineer at Square, the payment company, he knows how to code. And like most people who make a living coding, he has an eye for inefficiencies.
Getting reservations at one of his favorite restaurants, State Bird Provisions, struck him as inefficient. Or at the very least, frustrating. "Unfortunately, SBP got noticed by the San Francisco foodie community," he wrote on his blog. "This meant that the reservations page started to consistently return the following status: No reservations are currently available."
As is increasingly common, especially in San Francisco, State Bird Provisions takes reservations online. So Mónica threw together a little tool that could monitor changes on the reservation page. His first discovery: Within an hour of new reservations becoming available, at 4 a.m. they were gone.
People getting up early for a restaurant reservation is neither surprising nor unprecedented. His next discovery, however, is: "It had been a while since I looked at [the tool]," Mónica told BuzzFeed, "so I went back and analyzed the data that I had collected and realized that the patterns were getting too fast for this to be humans reserving reservations."
"In under a minute, all the reservations were being taken," he said. The bots had taken over.
Who exactly was running these bots was unclear, but Mónica quickly put together a reservation bot of his own. Asked if he knew anyone else who was using one, he responded: "Every single engineer in SF that is also a foodie. Starting [with] my co-workers here at Square."
The rise of the reservation bots has been fomenting for a while. Hacker Table scrapes hard-to-get reservations from OpenTable and makes them available through a web interface. Now, though, its consequences are becoming very real, very fast. "Restaurant reservations are turning into high-frequency trading," says Mónica.
UrbanSpoon did not return a request for comment this morning, and it's clearly in their interest to prevent services like this from working — if users can't get a good reservation by using the site in a normal way, they simply won't use it.
The consequences for restaurants are more complicated: Either way, they're seating the same number of tables. But it changes their clientele and, by extension, how the city regards them. If hackers are fighting over your reservations, all your reservations will go to hackers.
The top comment on Hacker News spells it out: "There's something frustrating about reading this," it says. "Perhaps it's that a technological advancement that was supposed to make life easier is being capitalized on by a small group of technically competent people, shutting out the average user." In addition, the transformation of reservations into a sort of high-speed trading market is something that most restaurant owners have never had to consider. State Bird Provisions hasn't yet responded to a message; a number of other high profile San Francisco restaurants promised to get back. Every rep I spoke to sounded familiar with the concept, at least.
Mónica, for his part, says he's planning on turning his reservation bot into a website, to "level the playing field."
This generation of reservation bots can probably be stopped. But the next, maybe not: OpenTable and UrbanSpoon are in the unenviable position of competing against the most qualified engineers and programmers in the world. "At the end of the day, bots can be made to look arbitrarily close to a real human being getting a reservation," says Mónica.
"This is a losing battle."
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11 Kinds Of Junk Food That Cost Almost Twice As Much As Something Healthier
Courtesy of DC-based non-profit consumer advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest .
The Center for Science in the Public Interest wanted to see if the urban myth about eating healthy actually being more expensive was true.
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C.S.P.I. created these images to share their findings with the public.
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C.S.P.I. analyzed 20 popular snack and 19 side dish items for average price and calorie number.
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3 Extra-Crispy Ways To Eat Mac 'N' Cheese
Sometimes it needs to crunch, you know? (courtesy of Homeroom restaurant’s The Mac + Cheese Cookbook )
Make Mac 'N' Cheese pancakes.
Via: Sara Remington
SERVES 4
INGREDIENTS
1 cup dried small elbow pasta
1/2 cup Mac Sauce (recipe below)
1 cup grated cheese
(Cheddar is classic, but any other favorite cheese will also work)
1 large egg
1 cup panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
Drink pairing: Mimosas or Bloody Marys
PREPARATION
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until a little less than al dente. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain the pasta again.
Mix the sauce, cheese, and egg together in a bowl. Add the cooked pasta and stir together until evenly mixed. Place the panko bread crumbs in a separate bowl.
Place about 2 tablespoons of the mac mixture in the bowl of panko. Gently roll it around in the panko to form a ball that is fully coated with bread crumbs. It is a little hard to work with, but don't worry, it doesn't need to be perfect—it's about to be flattened out into a pancake!
Heat a griddle or nonstick skillet over medium heat, and butter the pan generously. Place the ball of mac and cheese on the pan, and press it down with the back of the spatula until it flattens out into a thick pancake (not too thin, or it will break apart). Repeat with enough pancakes spaced at least 1 inch apart to fill the griddle or skillet.
Cook the pancakes on one side until brown and crispy, about 2 minutes, then flip and cook the other side until brown and crispy, another 2 minutes. Transfer the pancakes from the griddle to a serving plate. Repeat, adding more butter as needed, until all the pancakes have been cooked.
Eat the pancakes as soon as they are ready for maximum crispiness and cheesy gooeyness.
Make Mac 'N' Cheese for breakfast.
Via: Sara Remington
SERVES 4
INGREDIENTS
1/2 pound dried elbow pasta
1/2 pound sliced bacon
2 cups Mac Sauce (recipe below)
2 cups grated extra-sharp, aged Cheddar cheese
1/2 cup panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
4 large eggs
Freshly ground black pepper
Beer Pairing: IPA
Wine Pairing: Rosé
PREPARATION
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until a little less than al dente. Drain, rinse with cold water, and drain the pasta again.
Preheat the oven to 400°F.
Cook the bacon in a frying pan over high heat until crispy, about 8 minutes. Remove extra grease by patting the strips with a paper towel, and then cut into bite-size pieces.
Add the sauce and cheese to a large, heavy-bottomed pot and cook over medium heat. Stir until the cheese is barely melted, about 3 minutes. Add the bacon and stir to combine. Slowly add the cooked pasta, stir, and continue cooking while stirring continuously until the dish is nice and hot, another 5 minutes.
Spoon the mac and cheese into 4 individual, 5-inch-diameter ovenproof bowls. Sprinkle the panko evenly on top of each bowl. Bake until bubbly, 10 to 15 minutes.
While the macs are cooking, fry the eggs: Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in a large sauté pan over medium-high heat. Crack 2 of the eggs into the pan, cover, and let cook undisturbed for 3 to 4 minutes. The eggs are done when all the egg white is completely opaque, and the yolk is still nice and bright. Slide the eggs onto a plate and repeat with the remaining tablespoon of butter and 2 eggs.
Remove the macs from the oven, and slide a fried egg on top of each one. Top each egg with some black pepper. Serve immediately.
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