More links with little comment: other Oreos, jive, Jack Bruce, odd museums and Ezra Pound

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

• Crème Dreams: 12 Odd & Awesome Oreo Cookie Flavors Green tea, for example. Most of these look better than the classic.
  
  
• Fond of reet pleates? Or maybe you call them drape shapes. In any case, there's a war on, cat, and you're wasting fabric! Jazz Blasts from the Past looks at old Down Beat Magazines, and the language therein.
  
  
• ‘THE MAN BEHIND THE BASS’: EXCELLENT DOCUMENTARY ON THE LEGENDARY JACK BRUCE. Who is Jack Bruce? Never heard of Cream, young padawan? Come back here in forty years, and we'll have a documentary on Bieber Fever, just for you. (Ginger Baker is really scary, btw.)
  
  
• Finally, a reason to schedule a vacation to New Delhi: the Sulabh Toilet Museum. There's more where that came from: 11 Museums Devoted to Everyday Objects
  
  
• What do you know about Ezra Pound (other than that, if you've tried reading him, your head hurt)? This is interesting material: Attainted: The Life and Afterlife of Ezra Pound in Italy.
  
  
  

More links with little comment: Rushdie, patent wars, apples, fried everything and F.M. Ford

More good stuff that speaks for itself:

• Nice piece on the author and his movies: Salman Rushdie gets back to his day job.
  
• Patent wars like Apple's and Samsung's are nothing new. Cold War: The Legal Battle Between Good Humor and the Popsicle Corporation
  
• The history of apples. Sour, and for lowlifes only? Why Do Students Give Teachers Apples and More from the Fruit’s Juicy Past
  
• 25 Deep-Fried Foods From the Texas State Fair: Fried beer? Say no more!
  
• Parade's End is coming to the US, no doubt, and most of us are going to watch it. I mean, Sir Tom Stoppard and Non-Sherlock Cumberbatch? And, oh yeah. The original author: The life of Ford Madox Ford.
  
  
  

Julia at 100

A tip of the hat to @ktmenick for this one.

Bento

I will admit that my sad little lunch that I brought to the office today was a chicken salad sandwich over which I spent literally no time on aesthetics. Chopped up the ingredients, mixed them together and slapped them between two slices of bread. Wrap it in plastic and toss it into a brown bag. End of story.

Bento is the Japanese equivalent of the brown bag. A little rice, a little protein, a little veggie, all in a little box. Simple enough. But then we get into character bento, where just making the food edible isn't enough. It has to look like something. This is sort of Martha Stewart gone insane in a sushi factory, if you ask me, but it makes for entertaining looking food. If, that is, you want your food to be entertaining looking.

Check out Bountiful Bento! 25 Not-So Traditional Lunches for more like the picture here.
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Quick take - Mario Batali's home kitchen

From Esquire.com.
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Grinwout's goes all foody

We at Grinwout's pride ourselves on our prowess in the kitchen. We can make a meal out of anything, from the barest pantry to the most luxurious farmer's market. But we are not perfect. We occasionally make mistakes. It turns out we are not alone in this.

As a general rule, we don't use the interwebs much for food. Lavish printed books with gorgeous photographs are more our style. Food porn, in other words. We want inspiration more than instruction. And it is not like us to post how-to-cook articles here. We leave that to those in the business.

But every now and then an article comes along that every cook has to read. This one is called The Most Common Cooking Mistakes, and it's full of excellent information that will help any cook who isn't a pro. Even Grinwout learned a thing or two!

(via Coudal)