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Jamie and Bobby Deen are the co-collaborators/creators of the new food magazine, Deen Bros. Good Cooking , which will target men (just like Bobby is rumored to do in real life).

Unlike their horrible stint on Food Network's Road Tasted series, there will be no scripted conversations or awkward banter in the pages of the magazine. Maybe print isn't dead after all.

• Fat City kicks things off by pointing out their hatred of American cheese. Hasn't this "prepared cheese product" been beaten up enough.

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Broward-Palm Beach

El Guanaco Taqueria y Antojitos

We were already stuffed when we started looking at dessert, having just feasted on fluffy pupusas larded with stringy cheese, crispy fried tostones, and pollo à la plancha smothered with a rustic sofrito of tomatoes, onions, and peppers. But after all that food, what my friend and I really longed for was something sweet to put a sugary punctuation mark at the end of our meal. More >>

Dallas

Tramontana

This ain't your mother's bistro. No, it's your grandmother's. And if you visit Tramontana of an evening, though not too long past the witching hour of 8, you'll likely see a few other people's grannies here too. They'll be accompanied by nicely dressed adult grandchildren and, if some have been bribed to come along, a younger great-grandkid or two, urged to stifle yawns during Meemaw's birthday dinner or risk being cut out of the will. More >>

Sara Kerens

"If you like your restaurants immutable--same food, same clientele, same scenery--you'll love Tramontana."

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The series will premiere in April on Food Network. Plenty of food, yappy dogs and botox to ensue.

• Fat City is offering up a few pointers for decoding food labels. In addition to just looking at the picture of course.

I think the top one is Cola.

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Fear not fierious readers, a response post will be forthcoming. However, in the interim, those of you who enjoy the over the top caricature that is Guy Fieri can bask in this beautiful desktop background.

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While Rachael Ray laughs at her own ridiculous stories and Giada's atrocious pronunciations grate on our very being, Guy seems very natural and genuine. No tablescapes, annoying flirtations or awkward pauses, just plain, peroxide naturalness. We'd like to have a beer with him, and assume he'd probably be similar to the Guy we see on TV.

• Chow Bella is primed for spring training, and has compiled a list of baseball eats that don't suck. Suffice it to say, buying them peanuts and cracker jacks just won't do.

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Ladies, you may ask, what is considered "moderate"? As defined by the study, no more than two drinks in one day.

A serving of wine is 5 ounces, beer is 12 ounces and liquor is 1.5 ounces, but if you really want to stay thin, stay with the Cabernet... We'll drink to that!

1) Electrolux Design Concept "Heart of the home" animation

Imagine a future kitchen that requires neither pots nor pans for cooking. At DesignBoost, Electrolux revealed a shape-shifting, all-in-one cooking station concept. Heart of the Home works as a kitchen table, a cooking surface and bar all in one. Its design calls for an "intelligent, amorphous, interchangeable cooking surface that adapts to users needs." This video shows the cook selecting a recipe, then marking an area with their hand to show how large the cooking area should be. After pressing down on the table's surface, it creates an indentation that works as a pot or pan. The temperature and cooking time is selected with a few finger swipes.

• Short Order has us pining for discontinued products with their list of "Junk Foods We Want Back." It's not like Nintendo Cereal System doesn't have a certain timeless quality.

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A New Jersey dude supposedly stuffed the bagel sandwich with the extra ingredient (his own body hair), after the order was placed by a cop that had previously arrested him. After receiving the "special order," the cops came back to the restaurant for another special order: an arrest of the chef, Ryan Burke, whom they suspected had sprinkled his essence onto the delivery.

After spending a half-day in jail, Mr. Burke was fired from his job.

There's more to Irish food than just potatoes and shepherd's pie.

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English fare gets the same bad rap, mostly due to the greasy bangers and mash that are so pervasive at Americanized British pubs. (And shame on a certain British pub in Idaho for showing NASCAR in the lounge one afternoon and refusing my repeated requests to turn the channel to a pivotal English Premier League soccer match.)

Anyway, back to Irish food. To understand Irish cuisine, it's important to understand the history of the land itself. Like in most cultures, Ireland has a strong agrarian history, dating back to the 7th century when monks first documented agricultural and foraging practices in voluminous secular texts. The potato wasn't even buried beneath the verdant landscape at that time. Staples of the early Irish diet included barley, oats, wheat and rye, most of which came in the form of sloppy porridge (gruel, if you will) and, on special occasions, flatbreads and cakes.

• Eating Our Words reminds us that today is National Absinthe Day. Get your sugar cubes ready and prepare for a long weekend.

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A Kansas City Royals fan claims that a flying hot dog hit his eye during a game in September of last year and caused permanent damage. In his defense, he was sitting six rows back from the dug out after Slugger, the Royals mascot did a slick, behind-the-back maneuver, striking the unfortunate gentleman right in the peeper. Ok, so it's a bit of a tough sell, but he'll have to sell it to a judge in court. John Coomer, the injured one-eyed fan is suing the baseball team for $25,000 in damages after he underwent two eye surgeries to correct his hot dog injury.

The moral of this story: never underestimate the power of a weenie.