Freshly Made

Hey, the Editor's Food Blog on Epicurious is pretty great - it's full of interesting news tidbits, cookbook-related amuse-bouches and crusty opinions. Seems to be pretty down to earth, which is a nice change from the zillions of flogs (food/foodie-blogs) out there gasping over the miracle of fava beans or recounting every last thing they put in their mouth over the course of the day. For sure, I loved the heads-up on Pimp My Snack, a website devoted to making humungoid doppelgangers of Oreos and reasonable facimiles of Big Macs. Oh baby, I love it! Seems like there's a whole heck of a lot of people out there who like nothing more than spending a day scraping out forty packs of Reese Peanut Butter Cups, melting down the chocolate and creating, like a phoenix rising out of the ashes, a Guinness Book of World Records'-like spectacle. The only thing is I am totally unfamiliar with are English junk foods, a realization that causes me a significant amount of sadness and rising determination to taste these items. Rainbow Drops? Twiglets? Faerie Cakes? I think my fellow Canadians should rise to the challenge and begin creating gigantic Wagon Wheels and Coffee Crisps (yes, I know these are English sweets too, but I miss 'em). But I gotta say that the first pimped snack I saw was a gigantic gummy bear created by a guy called Matt. This killer snack was comprised of layers 'n layers of melted gummy bears poured into an empty animal cracker tub. Way to go Matt!