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Make that 117 Nagging Food Questions and counting! Over at Chow, a food media site, every week the answer of a new nagging food question is posted. As of January 15, 117 answers are at your disposal!

Some of my favorites?

• How Long Can You Keep Dry Spices? [Short answer: 1-3 years, depending on whole or ground, unless you bust out the fancy storing techniques]
• Why Do Onions Make You Cry? [Short answer: It's all about the chemical reactions]
• How Long Can Dried Pasta Be Stored? [Short answer: Years and years!]
• What Makes Cheddar Cheese Sharp? [Short answer: Bacteria from aging - gross, but so delicious!]
• Is Soy Lecithin Bad for You? [Short answer: Like anything, it's ok - in moderation. It's a natural derivative of the soybean]

via Wordhole

A lot of food groups on Flickr are pure fluff – just pretty photos of food with no utility beyond the visual. Once in a great while I enjoy looking at food, but more often than not, I’m going to want to reproduce it!

I stumbled upon a a few groups whose premise is that each photo must be accompanied by a recipe or a link to a recipe. It combines my love of looking at delicious food with real life reviews and reproduction ability! Recipes to Share, Cooking (recipe required), The (un)official Flickr cookbook, and Food with Blogged Recipes are all recipe based Flickr groups.

One delight that I found through The (un)official Flickr cookbook is this excellent idea of a Lemon-Ginger cookie:

You can find the recipe at the user’s blog, Coconut & Lime.

View my “food” tagged Flickr items to see more yums that yours truly has made or just plain eaten.

FoodPairing.be prompts you to select a food, and from there you are delivered a plot connecting that food with its potential pairings (or, if pertinent, interchanges).

All food can be interchanged with some combination of other foods. I can reconstruct basil by combining coriander, tarragon, cloves, laurel. The way to use [the tool] is to take from each branch of the plot one product and make a combination of those food products.

It’s a great tool for you recipe inventors out there. Bookmark it, press it, spread the words, and cook away!

Never throw water on a grease fire!

1. Extinguish the heat source
2. Dampen a cloth
3. Cover pan with dampened cloth
4. Wait to cool

View this safety short on why we never throw water on grease fires.