food
Stan Lee and Iron Man 2 team up to sell Dr Pepper
Yeah, so I’m totally embedding a commercial into the blog. I know, I know … but before you judge me, you should know that it a) has an Iron Man theme, b) features that greatest of Texas beverages, Dr Pepper and c) guests stars Stan Lee. Watch and enjoy:
If you head over to the Dr Pepper website, you can also see all the cool can designs they’ve created featuring Tony Stark, War Machine and even Nick Fury … who doesn’t want a Samuel L. Jackson Nick Fury Dr Pepper can? It will go well with my Spider-Man and X-Men Dr Pepper cans.
- April 15, 2010 @ 09:00 AM by JK Parkin
C.B. Cebulski to pick the best “extreme villain cake” on Food Network this Sunday
C.B. Cebulski by Tetsuya Aoki
If you follow Marvel’s talent scout on Twitter, you know that C.B. Cebulski is a big fan of food … he’s just as likely to point out a great place to get BBQ as he is to share tips and trick on breaking into the business. Now he’s launched a blog called Eataku, “an online home for people passionately obsessed with food,” where he’s posting restaurant reviews, recipes by Alex Maleev and even food-related artwork, as you’ll see above.
He’s also going to be a guest judge on the Food Network’s Challenge show, where various chefs face off in cooking challenges. This week’s challenge is “extreme villain cakes,” and it airs this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT.
“Four cake designers tap into their dark side as they create original villains and tell their stories in cake,” says the Food Network’s description of the show. “The cake designers also need to make their creations move or spin or shoot fire — making for a truly extreme competition. The competitor who can wow the judges with both the story and the special effects will take home ten thousand dollars.”
- April 9, 2010 @ 12:30 PM by JK Parkin
Bye, bye, mince American pie
Olde-timey kids never passed up a chance to get their mince on
Thank God for slow Festivus news days. When else would we find the time to read a fascinating article on the rise and fall of the mince pie? The Chicago Reader‘s Cliff Doersken blows my pumpkin-loving mind with his eye-opening essay on what was once considered “the monarch of the pies.” A spiced beef-based concoction, mince pie was the holiday staple and home-cooked favorite of this great nation throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries — despite the fact that pretty much everyone admitted the ingredients were unhealthy, disgusting, and even psychologically damaging. I’m totally not kidding.
Best of all, for Robot 6′s purposes at least, the piece is accompanied by a selection of vintage newspaper comics that prove what a pop-cultural staple the mince pie once was. I’d say something about newspapers themselves following mince pie into the gullet of history, but that’s hardly in the holiday spirit, so I’ll just say the article’s a feast for those hungry for lost Americana and leave it at that.
(Hat tip: Matthew Perpetua)
- December 23, 2009 @ 08:50 AM by Sean T. Collins
Straight for the art | Minty fresh James Jean art
Coming soon from Giant Robot are three different packages of mints designed by artist James Jean. Check out the other two designs by following the link.
- August 17, 2009 @ 10:40 AM by JK Parkin
We can only hope a Hostess marketing exec is seeing this and getting ideas
Save the BPRD one for me please
Found via Topless Robot. Can you name them all?
- August 5, 2009 @ 07:11 AM by Chris Mautner
Fully baked superheroes
Here are a couple of posts to help ruin your dinner, as my mom always liked to say … first, Thom Zahler shares some cookies his brother brought over for his birthday:
Watchcookie
I’ve never heard of the restaurant where he bought them, called Eat ‘n Park, but they specialize in smiley cookies, apparently. Zahler’s brother had them add the red, which transformed them from regular smiley-face cookies to comic book icons.
And next, retailer and blogger Matt Price shares a whole bunch of comic-themed sheet cakes his wife made, featuring everyone from the Wonder Twins and Captain America to Mr. Spock and Booster Gold:
Booster Gold
I shouldn’t be looking at cookies and cakes before lunch … now I need a snack.
- May 18, 2009 @ 10:40 AM by JK Parkin