Hot Sake - Food News You Can Use

- A lovely family story, centered around the casual Puebla Mexican Food restaurant in the EV, was recently told in the The Villager. Some of the food is quite good, we are partial to the roast pork tacos served just as they should be, simply dressed with cilantro, onion and a bit of tomatillo salsa.

- A glimpse of early spring from Zoe Singer at Grub Street; early Greenmarket favorites – rhubarb and spring garlic - have started arriving from far flung growing regions at your local high-end grocers.

- If you don’t have time to read On Food and Cooking cover to cover, and following up with the works of Hervé This and other assorted cooking gurus, this page of kitchen myths is for you. Among the questions answered, the age old does hot or cold water boil faster? (via Megnut)

- Following up on two of the hot topics recently bubbling around in the food blogosphere, we find that former times critic Mimi Sheraton provides some color over at Slate for the Bruni-Chodorow public dustup, and there appears to be an off the record response from the Food Network to the hubbub Anthony Bourdain started with his skewering of the networks often unappealing on-air talent.

- In related news, Rachael Ray’s appeal has continued on its unfathomable march to domination and she is now available in the form of wax. We think the wax is really an improvement.

- Mark your calendar, the second annual Dining for Darfur is set to take place on Sunday April 29th. A very worthy cause that we will continue to remind you about (i.e. beat into your head) as the date approaches.

- From the inbox: Gary writes in about the closing of Honmura An, enclosing the goodbye sign in the window. He adds at the end of his note – “sea urchin was unbelievable. Doubt it can be replaced, maybe we'll try and find some good Yakitori. Any suggestions” Can anyone make a recommendation or two for this reader?

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