I’m spending the next 5 days at SXSWi in Austin, along with a few friends, getting my geek on and having some fun. Given that the REAL point of this trip is the food and drink, a whole lot of my blogging will be happening over on my other site, TunaCupcake.com, so check it out! And if you’re around, follow/dm me on Twitter so we can connect.
BBQ & tacos FTW!
If there are two things in this world that I love, they are TED talks and John Hodgman (the order is unimportant). I haven’t yet gotten around to picking up his new book, More Information than You Require, though I fully intend to as soon as my reading list dwindles a bit. In the meantime, here is a bit of a diversion for you all:
Every Canadian knows of a wonderful, magical place that can cure all your ills, and fill you in a way no other fast food restaurant can or wants to. It is a place worthy of an epic journey, a la Harold & Kumar.
“It” is White Castle.
Last month, I had the good fortune of spending a few days in beautiful Northern Kentucky, famously (mis)marketed as the South Side of Cincinnati (The mis-marketing is a topic for another time and place. Let’s leave it at: I’d never be happy living someplace that built its identity in relation to a bigger, better place. I know, I know, Canada… but here we are). It is also home to a vast array of liquor and tobacco shops, a “main strasse” (I don’t know why they pulled out the German there) and a White Castle. Read more
New on Tuna Cupcake:
As of yesterday, fishermen off the southwest coast of Nova Scotia (where lobster is currently in season) were getting $2.25 CAN per pound. That’s insanely cheap… and worrisome to many a fisher out there. Know who it doesn’t really worry? Me. For me, it just means lots of potential for delicious lobster.
Now, it’s not as cheap in Toronto (note: speculation. I’m too lazy to go to a grocery store with a lobster tank.), but that doesn’t mean we can’t benefit from the cheaper-than-chicken status of lobster (note #2: the weight of lobster includes like… the whole thing, not just the meat you’re going to eat. So you have to factor in all the other junk… but again, too lazy to know what kind of ratio we’re talking there.) So what should you do with this delicious lobster? Read more on tunacupcake.com.