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How To Watch The Super Bowl Between Snacks
Confession: I didn’t understand anything about football…until I worked as a sportswriter for a Southern newspaper. In the land of Friday night lights, I needed to learn the sport or be banished to the office, taking score-reporting phone calls for agate. So, I started a month-long study in, quite literally, “Football for Dummies.” …
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The Art Of Eating Alone
As funny (or unfunny) as it may sound, eating a meal in a restaurant alone is a big fear to many people. There’s even a fancy phobia name for it: Solomangarephobia. From asking for a table for one to waiting for food solo, it’s terrifying for some. I can’t say I’m necessarily good at eating…
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Food At NYU: Where I Loved To Eat During College
Ten years ago, I graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree in journalism from New York University and no idea what kind of crazy journey the real world would take me on. But here I am, still truckin’ 10 years later in Los Angeles. Do I miss New York? Occasionally, but I certainly don’t miss…
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TV Characters Who Are Total Foodies
For the kind of work that I do, I have to watch a lot of TV and eat a lot of different food. Sometimes, those worlds intersect, like when I write about the covert dish Chang made on Orange is the New Black or what prison food is really like on, well, OITNB (I do write about…
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What Makes a Great Salad? Favorite Salads For Summer
Even though Los Angeles is always sunny, the temperatures have been rising and the sun is getting stronger — which means it’s summer in the City of Angeles. And there’s nothing I love more than indulging in a great salad in the summer. It’s cool, it’s refreshing, and it’s so delicious. But then I…
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Couch Potato Cook on Instagram, Twitter, & Tumblr!
In addition to reading this blog, you can follow my food adventures in the following places, depending on your preferences. OR you can follow all three for maximum food photo assault. Your choice. INSTAGRAM – COUCHPOTATOCOOK TWITTER – COUCHPOTATOCO0K (someone else took “couchpotatocook” and doesn’t use it at all. 🙁 ) TUMBLR –…
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I Went On The Sriracha Factory Tour
As The Oatmeal comic says, Sriracha is the savior of cheap, crappy Asian food, and actually, all food in general. If you don’t know what Sriracha is, it’s the yummy spicy red sauce that comes in this bottle: It tastes good on everything. Seriously. Lately here in Southern California, Sriracha’s maker Huy Fong Foods…
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I Learned French Food Words On Duolingo
If you haven’t heard the hype yet, Duolingo is language-learning app that teaches you a language new to you as if it’s a addictive game. Launched in 2012, the app now has 8.5 million active users. Apple named Duolingo as its app of the year for 2013, the first educational app to receive the…
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Food In Nashville: Where I Loved To Eat
In my early 20s, I lived in the great state of Tennessee for about three years and traveled all over the place as a newspaper reporter. I lived in Chattanooga, but regularly made trips to Atlanta and Nashville like it ain’t no thang. So you might guess the TV series Nashville has a special place in my…