From this week's NYTimes food section, this fine article on porter. Coincidentally enough, I was drinking a bottle of Duck Rabbit Porter while I was reading the piece. I was a bit disappointed that Duck Rabbit didn't get a mention (altho I noticed that the writer tried to innoculate himself from complaints that he'd missed X or Y beer by stating that there were many great small breweries which were only available locally. So even though one of the top things on my list of things to try is the Coal Porter from Maine, it's possible that Duck Rabbit doesn't ship all the way up to NYC.

We're on record here at the HoD as big fans of NYC's Shake Shack so of course we're also fans of its owner, Danny Meyer. Thanks to Minty for the link, which includes an excerpt from Meyer's new book and some audio (which maybe you'll be able to hear if you're not using Firefox on a Mac like I am).

Over at Epicurious there's a good article on Ferran Adrià. I think that a lot of the arguments they're making are rather straw-man, at least in terms of Adrià's cuisine, or what I understand about it from things I've seen and read. They sort of grudgingly admit Adrià's brilliance but want to make sure that no one follows in his footsteps.