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My Entertainment
Flash-fried finger-lickin’ chicken
Here, “un-fried” really means flash fried. Flash frying is a high-heat deep-frying technique used to rapidly brown small pieces of quickcooking food such as tiny calamari or small shrimp to avoid overcooking them before the crust browns. Flash flying requires an oil temperature of at least 400°F — which means you have to use an oil with a high smoke point, like grapeseed oil. By poaching the chicken first and then flash frying it, I was able to eliminate 20 grams of fat and at least 250 calories from traditional fried chicken. Because the chicken is already cooked, it only has to spend enough time in the hot oil to brown the crust, which means it absorbs less oil.

Taken from “Now Eat This!” by Rocco DiSpirito.

 
My Entertainment
Take comfort in lighter dishes
As a chef, Rocco DiSpirito knows a thing or two about the transcendent, magical power of a stick of butter. But loading up on the good stuff wasn’t really an option when writing recipes for his new book “Now Eat This!,” a collection of comfort foods that clock in at under 350 calories.
 
New York Going Out
Gallivan is a chef for all seasons
There’s no secret to why Terrence Gallivan of August restaurant is this week’s Hot Chef (um, just look at his picture). But this Virginia-raised chef is nice as well — he won’t even say anything bad about Gordon Ramsay.
 
Philly Arts
Dreaming up life in a ‘Future City’
Gene Coleman has a recurring dream in which he finds himself in a strange city. “I don’t know where this place is, and I don’t think it’s any place that actually exists,” he says. “But it has these fantastic, almost surrealistic architectural qualities to it.”
 
Published 22:25, February the 4th, 2010
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THE WEEK THAT WAS

Metro’s expert newsologists sniff out the week’s media buffet in search of any nuggets of truth

QUOTED IN THE NEWS

“The consuming public is well aware of the difference between a face and a butt.”   The South Butt’s legal retort to The North Face, which is suing for trademark infringement. Clearly, South Butt’s Legal team has never seen “jersey shore.”

“Phil is treated like a king, surely the envy of all of his fellow groundhogs.”  Altoona Mirror, in response to a proposal from animal rights group peta to replace Punxsutawney Phil with a robot. Which is all well and good — until our cuddly forecasting groundbots rise against their human masters...

WHAT DID WE LEARN?

Palin smarter than she looks
We learned that it’s a lot easier to make the New York Times best-seller list when you divert more than $60,000 from your political action committee straight to your publisher. (“Sarah Palin Uses PAC to Buy Her Own Book,” ABC News, Feb. 1) Her detractors may call her stupid, but vapid prose hasn’t sold this well since L. Ron Hubbard invented his own religion.

How do you clean an iPad?
We learned that people know what they want. (“Adobe Plays the Porn Card in Flash Campaign Against iPad,” Wired, Jan. 29) Because what good is a high-costed, oversized iPhone if you can’t use it to view tasteless Flash-based pornography on the go?

Tragedy? Or opportunity knocking?
We learned that every massive loss of life has a silver lining. (“After Quake, Evangelicals Find Opportunity”, AOL News, Jan 31) “Out of tragedy, there is opportunity,” says surprisngly honest evangelical Christian pastor Gersan Valcin. “For a Christian, this is the best time to be alive.” At the very least, it’s a better time than a few weeks ago — when an estimated 200,000 Haitians died in some earthquake...

GOP kicking some real ass
We learned that America loves a hero. (“New England Company Unveils [Scott] Brown Action Figure,” FOX News, Feb. 1) It’s high time someone in the GOP grew a pair of opposable thumbs.

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Music
MMMpod
The March MMMpod features conversation and music from Surfer Blood and The Allman Brothers Band (There's a double-bill you're not too likely to see. However, Gregg Allman does mention Hannah Montana!). We also speak with Vampire Weekend and the Dropkick Murphys.
 
 
 
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