McDonald’s Revises Dollar Menu; Dogs Get Reprieve in China

The glorious culinary past of airplane dining, food intake up since 1970, don't put poison herbs in your salad, and more, in our morning news roundup.

Posted 08/04/08 in Grub Street : Mediavore

Tags: beijing, cookbooks, dog, mcdonald's, mcdonalds, mediavore, olympics, pichet ong, silver star, top chef, upper east side, zak pelaccio

In DJ Cassidy’s Mix: Cookie Crisp, Fruity Pebbles, and Balthazar

As the go-to party spinner for the likes of Jay-Z, Diddy, and Russell Simmons, DJ Cassidy, who recently cut tracks with J-Lo and Jessica Simpson, has seen some lavish food spreads in his 25 years. For instance, the time he was flown to Naomi Campbell’s birthday bash in Dubai. “It was in the middle of the Arabian dessert,” he remembers. “It was a never-ending buffet with the most amazing stations — every kind of meat being carved for you, every dessert you could think of, every kind of seafood at the raw bar. I don’t like to work with a heavy stomach, but I couldn’t resist. I stuffed my face.” We asked him what he caved into this week.

Posted 08/03/07 in Grub Street : The New York Diet

Tags: balthazar, daisy may's, dj cassidy, goldbar, pink tea cup, sarge's, shun lee, silver star, the new york diet, tomoe sushi, via quadronno