A Full Belly

Space Cooking

Space Cooking: Feeding Astronauts on Mars-bound Missions Future long-duration space crews may need up to 40 different food processing machines to turn crops such as wheat and tomatoes into edible foods like bread and cereals, NASA officials estimated.

sushi pillow

The original sushi pillow. [via Derek]

Gingerbread Cookies Worth Eating

Cook's Illustrated: Gingerbread Cookies Worth Eating

The Japanese Knife Revolution

LA Times on the Japanese knife revolution: "As might be expected in a country where the most celebrated cuisine is largely a matter of perfect slicing, the Japanese have made a fetish of the knife. It seems that every other person I talk to has been raving about these blades. And after a couple of months of testing, I have to say that I too am a convert."

Bread Porn

NYC Sullivan Street Bakery's bread porn [via Newyorkology]

Review Roundup: See you next year!

Thanks to the crunch of work deadlines and the holiday season, Review Roundup will be on hiatus until the New Year. In the meantime, regular posting to continue as scheduled.

Food Stylin'

Profile of Seattle food stylist, JoAnne Naganawa: If your home-cooked version of a recipe doesn't look like what's in the cookbook, don't despair, Naganawa said. "There's a reason you can't get it just right. The pros work on the pictures. And the pros include a food stylist and a prop stylist who brings in the right dishes, silverware, plates, cups and towels," she said. "Recently for a Costco shoot, there were three food stylists, two prop stylists and an assistant, and we got 10 shots in a day." [via GH]

Dinner with Mario Batali

Dinner with Mario. Mario Batali serves up dinner and conversation for 6 lucky NYC couples.

A toast

A toast to the 71st anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition!

Good for the heart, good for the brain

New study finds that reducing bad cholesterol may protect your heart and help protect brain cells.  “What we find is that a high-fat diet is bad for learning and memory, and the low-calorie and intermittent fasting diets preserve learning and memory,” says Mattson, whose research was presented last month at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in San Diego.