Epic Product Reviews: Leinenkugel Oktoberfest

by Jeremy August 22, 2010

Autumn is in the air, my friends.  Leaves are changing color, the crack of shoulder pads announce the birth of a new season of football, and the languorous days of summer part for the crisp air and activity of fall.  Actually…no.  It’s still 85 degrees in the shade and much to my chagrin it seems [...]

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I Want Prison Carrott Cake

by Todd August 17, 2010

Check out this recipe for Rikers Island prison carrot cake. Apparently its the favorite of the inmates.  If it’s good enough for Rikers, it should be good enough for you, your family, and literally…your 12,999 closest friends.  Just gotta make 100 of the batches below:
Rikers Island Carrot Cake
25 pounds sugar
3 gallons vegetable oil
25 pounds flour
8 [...]

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Restaurant Tickets

by Todd August 17, 2010

Grant Achatz, the chef of Chicago’s Alinea, which is currently ranked as the #10 restaurant in the world by Restaurant Magazine, has come up with a way of making restaurant eating a bit more…stramlined.   Check out the NY Times article where Achatz talks about selling tickets to his new restaurant (instead of taking reservations) [...]

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Side Dishes in a Box

by Jeremy August 15, 2010

As regular readers of EP know, I function as a stay at home parent.  Notice I didn’t say “work.”  Where I come from, Earth, work is traditionally something you get paid for.  Otherwise it is an internship or volunteering.  Since an internship implies a lack of permanence, I suppose I am a volunteer.  And I’m [...]

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Chick-fil-a ads are hilarious

by Todd August 12, 2010
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Gotta hand it to them on this one!

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Uncaging the Chickens…Finally.

by Todd August 11, 2010

For those of you that have seen Food, Inc., or read Fast Food Nation, you may remember pretty horrendous descriptions of how chicken’s are raised in the United States on factory farms.  Antibiotics are typically used primarily because chickens are housed so close together that they can’t actually move around.

This sucks for all us chicken [...]

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Beezy’s – Ypsilanti, MI

by John August 11, 2010

A lot of people refer to their Mothers as angels, which is to be expected.  Carrying you around for 9 months and being responsible for you being here certainly deserves some sort of endearing term.  The difference between these people and me is my Mother actually is an angel.  I’m not saying that in one [...]

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