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- An Australian avocado-based pop-up called Good Fat is looking for a “Head of Avo Control” to taste dishes, test produce for firmness, and generally get customers pumped about eating the green fruit in a variety of permutations. A job description notes that “a minimum two years experience in smashing avocados on toast or similar” is required. The lucky recipient of this job will get paid in avocado toast and other dishes from the menu.
- When he was just a Food Network newbie, Guy Fieri got some advice from Rachael Ray that changed his life: “Never burn tape.” That is, when the cameras are rolling, just keep going. The Spikey one tells Delish: “Even when your mic falls off, or the lights go out, or you think nobody's watching, you don’t give up."
- Patricia Llewellyn, the UK TV producer that discovered Jamie Oliver and helped bring the Two Fat Ladies and Gordon Ramsay to the small screen, died last weekend at the age of 55. Jamie shared a touching tribute to Llewellyn on Instagram.
- Cronut creator Dominique Ansel has been busy lately opening up bakeries all around the world, but he still finds time to go back to Paris purely for inspiration. “It is emotional,” Ansel says. “In Paris, bakeries are not just traditional but cultural. French families will visit them multiple times a day.” The chef offers GQ a list of some of his favorite bakeries in the City of Lights.
- Chipotle’s stock dropped by around six percent yesterday, after the company announced a dip in sales on a quarterly earnings call.
- Waffle House employees uses a complicated system of condiment arrangements to communicate dish orders to line cooks. ESPN’s Dave Wilson explains: “A jelly packet at the bottom of the plate signifies scrambled eggs. Raisin toast is signified by a packet of apple butter. A mustard packet facing up means a pork chop. Face-down means country ham.”
- This Nightmare Before Christmas “piescape” belongs in the Ultimate Pie Pantheon. Just, wow:
- Today in celebrity food product news: Kirk Hammett, the guitar player from Metallica, is releasing his own coffee, and NBA all-star Charles Barkley is putting his name on a wine brand (all the proceeds will go to charity).
- After giving his two weeks’ notice, a Starbucks employee posted a bunch of hilarious drink receipts on Tumblr.
- Famous chef and yoga master Rick Bayless is starting a culinary training program for low-income students at Hatchery Chicago, a nonprofit food & business incubator that’s slated to open next year. Bayless remarks: “I believe this program can help surmount two big challenges in the city — lack of cooks to fill our restaurants' kitchens and a lack of both solid preparation and career opportunities for the youth of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods.”
- To fill the junk food void left by the Dollar Menu, McDonald’s will roll out a value board with $1, $2, and $3 items next year.
- All I See Is You star Blake Lively wants her daughter to be a chef someday.
- And finally, over in South Africa, the Advertising Standards Authority has agreed that a company called Alcohol Free Wine can’t label its grape juice as wine since there’s no fermentation involved. The company now has to remove all “Alcohol Free Wine” branding from its products.
