The Wednesday Wrap: Food News to Go

Is That a Bullet in My Blackened Catfish?: Legendary Louisiana chef Chef Paul Prudhomme takes "Iron Chef" a whole new level as he was grazed in the arm by a stray .22 caliber bullet  while setting up his cooking tent on the golf course at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. The "falling bullet" felt like a bee sting and was fired somewhere within a 1.5-mile radius. "Within five minutes, he was back to doing his thing."  [ESPN.com]

Dollar-Store Dinner Party: Henry Alford takes a Marco Polo approach to exploring the edible delights (and downers) on the shelves in New York's 99-cent stores. "For dessert each night we turned to the slightly wanton charms of the Little Debbie product line, particularly young Debbie's Oatmeal Creme Pies, whose velvety filling so perfectly captures an imagined marriage between buttercream frosting and Noxzema." [NY Times]

Bee Season: Russ Parsons chronicles Colony Collapse Disorder and how the shrinking honeybee population is affecting California's almond industry.  [LA Times]

Indiana Jones and the Summer Wedding Catered by the Naked Chef:  Rumors are swirling that Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart hope to hire UK celebrity chef Jamie Oliver for their summer nuptials. Let's hope that the monkey brains dinner sequence from Temple of Doom doesn't serve as inspiration for the menu. [Hello Magazine]

Collards and Candied Yams and Cobbler... Oh My!: Food critic Kevin Nance seeks out Southern "down-home deliciousness in the Windy City." [Chicago Sun-Times]

Cookbook Award Season is in Full Swing: Last week the IACP announced their 2008 nominees and on Monday the James Beard Foundation announced their 2008 finalists. Winners will be revealed on June 8. [James Beard Foundation]

Bruni Beat: Frank Bruni revisits the four-year-old West Village restaurant Mas and sticks with two stars ("very good"). "For the most part this isn’t a restaurant for diners with big, blunt appetites. It’s for those who revel in little surprises and unexpected nuances..." [NY Times]

--BTP

Comments

[Jim C. on March 31, 2008 at 04:20 PM]

Re Prudhomme: the headline on Fark was "I shot the chef, but I did not shoot the maitre d'."