My Food Looks Funny

If your food ever looks funny, take a picture and send it to this website.

Funny Foods

How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves

Bagels and Möbius strips have way more in common than you thought. Here's the proof and how to make a mathematically correct breakfast.

View the Mathematically Correct Breakfast

Public Radio Kitchen

"FOR PASSIONATE PUBLIC RADIO FANS & HOPELESS GOURMANDS...And featuring recipes and cooking tips & opinions on all things edible served up by You, Our Listeners. From locavores to omnivores, professional chefs to local food bloggers, all are welcome!"

Start your burners...view the kitchen!

The Condiment Packet Gallery

Chris Harne began collecting condiment packets in November of 2003. Initially the purpose of the collection was a more practical one. He came to the conclusion that ketchup was no longer a reasonable thing to spend money on. A handful of packets here and there would do just fine. He began to pick up other condiments as well. He stopped at a variety of locations in order to gather new types of condiments. It was around this time that he discovered how many different condiment packets existed. A collector by nature, the only logical thing for him to do was attempt to get every different packet design he possibly could. The Condiment Packet Gallery is the result, an archive of flexible portion control condiment packets. Who knew there where so many and so colorful to look at!

View the Condiment Packet Gallery

Fast Food Calories and Calorie Counter

"Chowbaby.com has listed nutritional and calories information from various fast food restaurants as a service to help you make smart choices. Items and serving sizes change often. Please check directly with the fast food restaurant if you have any questions. Chowbaby.com takes no responsibility for any inaccuracies that might occur."

How many calories is that! Find out at: Fast Food Calories and Calorie Counter

The World's Healthiest Foods

"The George Mateljan Foundation is a non-profit organization free of commercial influence, which provides this website for you free of charge. Our purpose is to provide you with unbiased scientific information about how nutrient-rich World's Healthiest Foods can promote vibrant health and energy and fit your personal needs and busy lifestyle."

Eat well at The World's Healthiest Foods

Airline Meals

"This is a website about nothing but airline food. There are over 15,000 pictures, meals from more than 500 different airlines, sent in by travellers from every corner of the world. First class meals, business class meals, economy class meals, but also crew meals, vegetarian meals, gluten free meals, children's meals...or just a bag of peanuts."

Hungry for airline food, visit: Airline Meals.net - Airline catering * largest site about airline catering and nothing but that... :-)

The Official Ramen Homepage

Over 300 recipes…for ramen noodles
This is actually a blog, all about Top Ramen noodles. But every other entry is a recipe, and there's a database of ramen recipes. Chili Ramen, Sinful Breakfast Ramen, Batter-Fried Ramen, and so much more!

The Official Ramen Homepage

Ban Trans Fats: The Campaign to Ban Partially Hydrogenated Oils

"It is now universally accepted that partially hydrogenated oils should be removed from our food supply as soon as possible. Partially hydrogenated oils contain trans fats that contribute significantly to premature heart attacks and other health problems.

About 40% of products in supermarkets contain them. Some health conscious markets such as Whole Foods will not sell any products containing partially hydrogenated oils. If the words "partially hydrogenated" or "shortening" are in the list of ingredients, don't buy that product, and if you've already bought it then just throw it away. You can always find an equivalent product which is just as tasty, without the partially hydrogenated oil."

Learn more: Ban Trans Fats: The Campaign to Ban Partially Hydrogenated Oils

Chef Rick's Southern cooking-Cajun Low Country and Soul Food

"If you're looking for the best of Southern Regional, Cajun, Low-country and All-American home cooking, you've come to the right place.

Chef Rick is serving up a delicious blend of Cajun, Creole, and Southern home cooking, along with a touch of Soul food and some good old fashioned down-home cooking. You’ll find cooking tips, food trivia, advice on choosing and using cookware,  and much more. Don’t forget the recipe page where you'll find delicious main dishes, Cajun favorites, and wonderful cakes and pies.  If you love southern cooking, you'll love chefrick.com."

Visit: Chef Rick's Southern cooking-Cajun Low Country and Soul Food

Amusing Flanedotes

"Amusing Flanecdotes

In El Salvador, flan is called flan de horchata because it is made with a milk-based almond drink sold across the country.

The Mexicali Blues Cafe in Teaneck, New Jersey makes flan flavored with kahlua and laced with pomegranate seeds.

On April 11, 1994, Taste It Presents, a company in Kenilworth, New Jersey that makes prepackaged foods sold at gourmet shops, released four frozen confections including flan in its 'Desserts Espanol' series.

Attention travellers. Dining out and eating flan? In Sacramento, California, flan will cost you $3.50 at Tortola's or Bull Market. Paella's in Washington D.C. will charge you $2.75."

Learn more: Mr. Smarty Pants Amusing Flanedotes

Halloween - Pumpkin Carving 101

"Pumpkin Carving - Nothing better signifies Halloween than a glowing Jack O' Lantern! Whether it's simply carving a pumpkin to sit on the door step for Halloween night or holding a pumpkin carving party with you're friends and family, this age old tradition is a main event for young and old alike. Here you'll find everything you need to know to carve your own pumpkins into spooky masterpieces for Halloween and have a lot of fun doing it!"

Halloween - Pumpkin Carving 101 - Carve a Jack O' Lantern for Halloween

Hidden Kitchens

"The Kitchen Sisters and Jay Allison are gathering stories for a new radio series coming to Morning Edition exploring the world of hidden kitchens, street corner cooking, legendary meals and eating traditions — how communities come together through food."

Learn more about: The Kitchen Sisters

The Glycemic Index

"The glycemic index is a ranking of carbohydrates based on their immediate effect on blood glucose (blood sugar) levels. It compares foods gram for gram of carbohydrate. Carbohydrates that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes. The blood glucose response is fast and high. Carbohydrates that break down slowly, releasing glucose gradually into the blood stream, have low glycemic indexes."

Learn more, visit: The Glycemic Index

Raw and Living Foods Recipes

"Raw/live food gourmet cuisine is delicious, filling and satisfying. After consuming these raw foods for a period of time, the pull back towards or attraction to cooked foods will lessen. If you can manage to stay completely away from cooked foods for at least 3 to 6 months, then when you again taste cooked foods, you will discover that the flavor is not as good as you remember. That is when you'll notice that something is missing in them that you were never able to discern before. And you would be right. The missing factor is . . . the Life.

You can choose to eat only raw/live foods or you can choose to incorporate more of these types of foods into your cooked menus. This choice is yours alone to make. Even if you choose the second option, your health is sure to improve and this may lead you to adhere even more faithfully to the raw food diet in the future."

Raw and Living Foods Recipes: Gourmet Uncooked Vegetarian and Vegan Cuisine

The Soup Peddler

The Soup Peddler, aka David Ansel, delivers his homemade soups to South Austin Texas customers by bike. Ansel is a serious soupmaker and cyclist...view his odometer at the site.

Bicycle delivered soup: The Soup Peddler.

How To Boil Eggs

"Hard-cooked eggs (eggs cooked in the shell in water) should never be boiled - simmer them in water. If boiled or cooked too long, the protein toughens or becomes rubbery and a greenish or purplish ring forms around the yolk.

To correctly cook the eggs, place them in a single layer in a pan with enough cold water to cover them completely. Bring the water to a boil, remove from heat, cover tightly with a lid, and allow to remain in the water approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Then place under running, cold water to cool quickly. This way of cooking is also known as 'coddling.' It does not toughen the whites as boiling does."

Boiling Eggs - soft-cooked, medium-cooked, hard-cooked

Jelly Belly Recipes

For Jelly Belly Addicts... - An online Jelly Belly menu and several "recipes" have been gathered over the years. The menu covers all 40 "official" flavors, and some of the newer flavors as well. The recipes include Banana Split, Candy Apple, Strawberry Milkshake, and more. Jelly Belly recipes