FavorFlav Weekly #5

Every week, FavorFlav selects the best, most interesting and funniest articles from the food scene. From long reads to listicles and interviews, it’s all here.

Baking bread for 22 hours

On February 3, the Masters de la Boulangerie, also known as the Olympic Games of bread, will take place. The participants have to bake the best French baguette. It’s really not only French bakers who take part; last time, the South Korean team baked the best baguette. They have 22 hours for the entire baking process, including proofing. If you don’t want to miss this, you can watch live via Facebook. The winner may call themselves World Master Baker and gets to bake bread for the French president for a year.

No more slipping on a banana peel

You no longer have to peel your bananas. At least, if you live in Japan. There, you can now buy bananas with an edible peel. The peel of this Mongee banana is thinner and supposedly tasteless, but it still really doesn’t look appetizing to us.

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Salt Bae sprinkles without gloves

Salt Bae recently opened his new restaurant in New York. He cuts the meat at the table, after which he performs his famous salt seasoning move. And he does it all with his bare hands. The Department of Health says it is investigating the establishment, because that last part isn’t allowed.

Answers to your wine questions

Winemaker Ilja Gort is getting a new show. In Gort’s Wijnkwartier, he answers viewers’ questions about wine. What, for example, is the difference between a bottle of wine with a cork and one with a screw cap? For this, he visits winemakers he knows and talks to experts from his own vineyard. Starting Friday, February 16, on NPO2.