Image credit: Jake Stangel Like many wealthy people, Jonathan Blow vividly remembers the moment he became rich. At the time, in late 2008, he was $40,000 in debt and living in a modest San Francisco apartment, having just spent more than three years meticulously refining his video game, Braid—an innovative time-warping platformer (think Super Mario Bros. meets Borges), whose $200,000 development Blow funded himself. Although Braid had been released, to lavish praise from the video-game press, on Microsoft’s Xbox Live Arcade service that August, Blow didn’t see a cent from the game until one autumn day when he sat down at a café in the city’s Mission district. “I opened up my Web browser and Holy fuck, I’m rich now,” he recalled. “There were a ... Continue reading →
Job Title: Temporary Kitchen Assistant When: July 23, 2012-November 2, 2012 Where: CHOW.com headquarters in San Francisco About CBS Interactive: CBS Interactive, a division of CBS Corporation, is the premier online content network for information and entertainment. Its portfolio of leading brands, which include CNET, CBS.com, CBSSports.com, GameSpot, TV.com, BNET, and Last.fm span popular categories like technology, entertainment, sports, news, and business. With more than 150 million people visiting its properties each month, CBS Interactive is a top 10 web property globally. Group/Team/Product Intro:Chow.com's Test Kitchen is looking for a temporary employee to help out the food editors while one of the three-person team is on maternity leave. The qualified candidate will have deep food knowledge including professional preparation and cooking experience, as well as ... Continue reading →
How to Make a Supereasy Tart Dough Published on Wednesday, December 7, 2011, by CHOW Video Team / Edit Post Lauren Shockey, author of Four Kitchens, shares a quick and easy tart dough recipe (view the recipe here) that doesn't need to be rolled out or chilled. CHOW Tips are the shared wisdom of our community. If you’ve figured out some piece of food, drink, or cooking wisdom that you’d like to share on video (and you can be in San Francisco), email Blake Smith and tell us what you’ve got in mind. Continue reading →
featured video After President Obama pays a visit Joe Biden in his room, the vice president confides in his secret friend, George. Watch » Continue reading →
Equal parts periodic table and Gourmet Magazine, Molecule-R has an Apple-like flair for design. Photo: Molecule-R “Where can I find the maltodextrin?” It’s a question that’s likely to result in a blank stare from your local grocer’s stock boy. But the scarcity of such ingredients is a real problem for molecular gastronomy enthusiasts. This avant-garde cooking style combines traditional foods with obscure, technical ingredients and processes, with outlandish results. Peanut butter powder with jelly noodles, anyone? The technique was popularized by chefs like Wylie Dufresne of WD-50, Ferran Adria of elBulli, and former Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold, who wrote the magnum opus in the field, Modernist Cooking. Getting inspired to try this type of kitchen alchemy is easy; getting your hands on hydrocolloids can be ... Continue reading →
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