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Keep Your iPad Safe in the Kitchen with Chef Sleeve The iPad really can be the perfect virtual recipe book, but when using your iPad in the kitchen there’s always a chance that something’s going to get spilt on it. Fortunately, one new iPad case has you covered. It’s called “Chef Sleeve,” and it can keep your tablet safe from eggs, milk, cake mix and more.

• Great Food & Wine Event For Travelers Gets Even Better

For years the Masters of Food & Wine, an annual weekend event held in Carmel, CA, was the ultimate hidden gem of food festival circuit. It was intimate and hands on, even as many other newly created food festivals spiraled out of control into mob events where guests waited on long lines to try food and wine and faced disappointment with sold out lectures and classes. Now Park Hyatt, which owns the Masters of Food & Wine, is taking the wonderful event global while sticking to its small group roots and insider feel.

• California & Wine Month – a perfect pairing

Every September the California wine harvest is an opportunity to sample the latest and greatest that the California wine regions offer. The weather is usually perfect, the wine and food flows freely and nearly everyone is throwing a party.

• Beer as an Ingredient

Cooking with beer makes sense: not only is it more flavorful than water, but it’s also more flavorful than any store-bought chicken stock and less ethically objectionable as well.

• A (Culinary) Major in Philosophy

Mr. Adrià’s long-term project is a new culinary foundation, which is scheduled to open in 2014 on the site of his former restaurant. It will host a rotating group of 20 chefs who will visit for months at a time. Alongside Mr. Adrià, they will create new dishes and work on different approaches to cooking.

• World’s Weirdest Spirits

An alcoholic yogurt liqueur, a bitter apéritif made from artichokes… how about a concoction featuring wood chips steeped in liquor that is touted as “Dominican Viagra”? It would be difficult to hear about such spirits and not wonder whether the world of bizarre booze is spiraling out of control.

• The French Laundry at Harrods: Thomas Keller interview

Probably the most ambitious pop-up project to hit London’s dining scene, The French Laundry will commandeer a section of Harrods’ Georgian Restaurant for ten days next month, from October 1-10. Frequently lauded as America’s best restaurant, the 70-cover Californian institution will be replicated as faithfully as possible in London.

Chef Matt G is the guy behind the Chef Blog Digest, he is a well seasoned all rounder when it comes to all things culinary as well is a mad keen blogger in all aspects of the term.

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