Gastrolust

When cooking chicken soup with rice
In July I’ll take a peep
Into the cool and fishy deep
Where chicken soup is selling cheap
Selling once, selling twice
Selling chicken soup with rice
In August it will be so hot
I will become a cooking pot
Cooking soup of course—why not?
Cooking once, cooking twice
Cooking chicken soup with rice…
“Chicken Soup with Rice”
from Really Rosie
by [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Chicken Soup with Rice” Dish-Off in August’s issue of Sound magazine.
You can find the full report, include menus, here.
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Two chefs do what they wanna do with “Pork and Beans”
They say
I need some Rogaine
To put in my hair
Work it out at the gym
To fit my underwear
Oakley makes the shades
That transform a tool
You’d hate
For the kids to think
That you lost your cool
CHORUS
I’mma do the things
That I wanna do
I ain’t got a thing
To prove to you
I’ll [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Pork and Beans” Dish-Off in July’s issue of Sound magazine.
You can find the full report, include menus, here.
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Three Asian chefs make our belly ache for more
Said “doctor, ain’t there nothin’ I can take?”
I said “Doctor, to relieve this belly ache,”
I said “Doctor, ain’t there nothin’ I can take?”
I said “Doctor, to relieve this belly ache.”
Now lemme get this straight,
You put de lime in de coconut, you drank ‘em bot’ up,
You put [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Coconut” Dish-Off in June’s issue of Sound magazine.
You can find the full report, include menus, here.
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Three chefs drive “Cheese and Onions” out of the fast food lane
I have always thought
in the back of my mind
Cheese and onions
I have always thought
that the world was unkind
Cheese and onions
Do I have to spell it out?
C-H-E-E-S-E-A-N-D-O-N-I-O-N-S-oh-no
“Cheese and Onions”
from The Rutles
by the Rutles
On my teen budget, “cheese and onions” was a question I got at [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Cheese and Onions” Dish-Off in May’s issue of Sound magazine.
You can find the full report, include menus, here.
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Chefs Create a Variety of Dishes from a Variety of Meats
They call that gizzards, gizzards
Part of the chicken
Not too finger-lickin’
And I’m not sure what part
They call them gizzards, gizzards
Part of the bird but
That’s what I heard but
I don’t know where to start
“Gizzards, Scrapple and Tripe”
from The Hymns of Bucksnort
by The New Duncan Imperials (1991)
“Hope you [...]

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Here are the photos (taken by me) of the rest of the dishes from the “Gizzards, Scrapple and Tripe” Dish-Off in April’s issue of Sound magazine.
You can find the full report, include menus, here.
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