Let Him Eat Cake

 

The #1 food blog of the moment isn't cucinanicolina (but see how I worked that in): It's Perambulare. What?

Samer's homage to single guys who want cake for one in 10 minutes or less got his blog about 6k page views when it was Stumbledupon.

We're not sure of Perambulare's demographic, but here is a sampling of the comments on this post:

Mme70 (02:03:03) :
Oh. My. God. I’m telling EVERYbody how you are my hero!

helen (15:34:17) :
I just moved to Austria from the US for a semester abroad. My dorm room doesn’t have a kitchen, only a stove and microwave, and I’ve been frustrated by the lack of familiar ingredients with which to make even non-baked desserts. I’m a compulsive baker, and the lack was killing me. Thank you! I’m going to try this tomorrow. You may have saved me.

nicole (19:00:17) :
Gorgeous photo, as always … and I must admit this looks intriguing. Now, if only I had a microwave!!

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Not my call, Samer, but I would thank mom, keep up with Helen and watch my back with that Nicole chick.

Samer Slides. At Least There Was Cake.

We complimented Samer on his rock-solid blog post about his 10-minute cake recipe experiments (featured on tastespotting.com, mind you!)

And then he goes and writes this:

"Do do do, da da da. That is all I have to say to you."

The World in a Grain of Rice

She taught us that quinoa could save the world and now Nicole is all about "The World in a Grain of Rice." Make up your mind? What's that? This just in: They are both grains.

Our woman in San Francisco is serving up some Chow (sorry) about what you can do with things called "polenta" and "millet" and "bulgur." Worst cocktails names ever.

But we like lists, and this is a top 10, which means we can just find #1 and go with that without a lot of reading. Cake is mentioned. That's promising.

The "about" part at the bottom is very cool, and peepsNet is going to use this boilerplate for Nicole stories from now on. Our only quibble is calling Cucina Nicolina a "cooking blog." It's about life, people.

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Nicole Spiridakis contributes to the San Francisco Chronicle and NPR online, as well as other publications, and writes a cooking blog called Cucina Nicolina.

Cooking with Samer

With apologies to our vegetarians readers -- but not to the culinary-inclined! -- we report that Samer has documented yet another meal prepared by his hand.

This time our friend has prepared "Rabbit Stewed with Dried Cherries," and, in an introduction to the illustrated recipe on Flickr, he warns:" (I)t is long and complicated, it'll use half the pots and pans in your kitchen, and if you are queasy, stay away."

peepsNet can second that last part.

A New Home for cuciananicolina

cuciana nicolina is dead! Long live cuciananicolina!

Nicole's culinary-related blog died over the weekend, no doubt from a sudden burst of use, as has already been noted by peepsNet. Sadly, there was collateral damage: the most recent post was lost in the tragedy and Nicole writes that while she probably will restore it on her new space "... at the moment I'm totally annoyed by the whole thing and need a little break."

She has migrated to Blogger, and peepsNet welcomes her to the fold. Don't forget to update your bookmarks and to Blogroll the new location.

Speak, Rissoto

The pace is quickening at Nicole's culinary blog. Sources also tell peepsNet that lots of writing is going on there in the City by the Bay.

cucina nicolina has three new entries this month, and four this summer.

The latest recounts a weekend camping trip where the challenge was to make a gourmet meal. peepsNet is now about to make the same joke for the third time, which is far short of our goal of beating it to death:

"She eats better in the wild than I do at home."

Thank you, and don't forget your waitresses.

Because of technical difficulties (ahem) there are no pictures accompanying Nicole's prose, which makes peepsNet's dime-store blog light-years advanced. But her collecton can be seen here.