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  • Raw egg aioli promoted for Ocean’s Eleven screening

    Posted: September 10th, 2010 - 10:21pm by Doug Powell

    Dinner and a Movie on TBS is incredibly hokey and contrived, which makes it perfect entertainment fare along with trashy magazines and Tom Robbins novels while recharging at the beach.

    During a (probably repeat) screening of the George Clooney Ocean’s Eleven remake on Friday night, the recipe to accompany the movie was ‘Risky Aioli;’ risky because, as the hosts said, the recipe included raw egg.

    The host did say that if you didn’t feel up to it (were a wus) a tablespoon of commercial mayo could be substituted instead. They went ahead with the raw egg.

    I’m guessing the egg-of-course-we-only-promote-the-cooked-kind industry didn’t register any health objections when the episode originally aired.

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  • New York celebrity hot spot La Esquina shut down, again

    Posted: August 19th, 2010 - 5:36pm by Doug Powell

    Celebrities are a terrible source of information about all things food, and worse when it comes to food safety.

    DNAinfo reports the New York City Department of Health closed down taco hot spot La Esquina after a Monday restaurant inspection, marking the celeb-frequented eatery’s second shutdown since May.

    La Esquina's "critical" violations included inadequate refrigeration and holding large amounts of food above maximum temperatures.

    In total, the restaurant racked up 64 violation points — well above the 28 necessary to earn a "C" letter grade under the department's new system.

    DNAinfo says that La Esquina’s “secret” underground passageway and cellar level restaurant have helped it earn big name fans including George Clooney, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts.

    But “combustible ceilings and inadequate egress” in those same area’s provoked the Department of Building’s spring shutdown.
     

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