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Monday, November 2, 2009
Michele's Chili Chocolate Cookies – I'd Love Them Even If She Wasn't My Wife!
These dense, dark, and dangerously addictive cookies feature a dose of black pepper and cayenne, which to some may seem like an odd addition. But one taste and you'll understand the method to this madness.
Just like adding a pinch of salt to dessert recipes makes them even sweeter and more delicious, the addition of pepper in this cookie really makes the chocolate even more chocolaty. The cookies aren't really "spicy," but you can definitely tell something strange and wonderful is happening.
I'm terrible with keeping my secret ingredients, secret. As soon as someone says, "Hey, what's in these?" I spill the beans. However, if you're one of those sadistic cooks that loves tormenting your foodie friends by not telling them what that certain something is, then this recipe is for you, since the spices are very hard to identify.
A couple notes about the recipe ingredients below. I use kosher salt for just about everything, but I always have to remind myself that it has a much flakier, larger grain, so 1/2 teaspoon of kosher salt is really like 1/4 teaspoon of fine table salt. The measurement below is for fine salt, so double it if you also use flake-style kosher salt.
Also, Michele decided to reverse the chocolate blend in the original recipe by using 2 parts unsweetened chocolate to 1 part bittersweet. If you like really sweet cookies use 2 parts bittersweet to 1 part unsweetened.
If you're not sure, make 4 or 5 batches and experiment with different combinations. You really can't practice too much when it comes to these strange, but spectacular cookies. Enjoy!
1/2 cup dried currants
2 tablespoons Kahlua
2 ounces bittersweet chocolate
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
2 room temperature eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup chocolate chips
Note: Special thanks to Sigve Hoel who gifted me a sweet new set of OXO mixing bowls! He saw them on my Amazon Wish List (in the sidebar in case you're wondering). Thanks Sigve! We LOVE them.
75 comments:
- Unknown said...
Yummy! Nice job Michele!
- November 2, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Looks delicious, I think I'll give these a try for Christmas. Thank you very much for the recipe. :)
PS: Nice to see the new bowls being used, they look great. Hope you enjoy them! :) (Almost tempted to get some for myself now =P)
- November 2, 2009 at 2:55 PM
- Chef John said...
OMG! I totally forgot to mention the new bowls in the voice over!! I LOVE them, thanks sooo much!!
- November 2, 2009 at 2:58 PM
- Chef John said...
I just added a special thanks to the bottom of the post! Thanks again!
- November 2, 2009 at 3:02 PM
Great recipe! Is there something I can use instead of Khalua? Something non-alcoholic?
Thanks! :)
- November 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, u can use coffee
- November 2, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Kai | Kat said...
i'd love to try these! my mom made mayan chocolate cake which also has chili and i loved it. this looks like an easy cookie version!
is it possible to replace the currants with something else? raisins? sultanas?
- November 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM
- Chef John said...
sure, those will work
- November 3, 2009 at 11:42 AM
- The Healthy Apple said...
Yum; I love adding spicy ingredients to my baked goods...I always add chili powder because it gives baked goods a nice kick....this recipe looks delish.
Can't wait to meet you this weekend in San Fran for the Foodbuzz Festival!
- November 3, 2009 at 12:43 PM
- Chef John said...
Likewise! Are u going to the opening cocktail reception?
- November 3, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- frabala.com said...
Hello Chef John!
I love the way you speak in your videos, even a dummy can produce your recipes!!!
And this one is very nice!
- November 3, 2009 at 1:15 PM
- Sam said...
Chef, check it out!
Your chicken wing video was featured on another website today.
- November 3, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- Amelia PS said...
such a wonderful adult treat!
- November 3, 2009 at 5:06 PM
Where would one find Dried Currants? With the dried fruit (cranberries, etc)?
- November 7, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Chef John said...
Yes, always next to the raisins
- November 7, 2009 at 3:02 PM
- Unknown said...
How much of a coffee flavor does the kahlua give? We don't like coffee, but these sound awesome.
- November 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM
- Chef John said...
Very little coffe flavor
- November 7, 2009 at 5:35 PM
what do you have your cookie dough baking on?
- November 7, 2009 at 10:39 PM
heyy Chef John, I made those cookies last night and they are ABSOLUTELY delicious. Although instead of Kahlua (I couldn't find it) I added Bacardi and some coffee. Thanks for the recipe.
Aggie (14 years old :) )
- November 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM
- DianShan said...
Can I replace cayenne pepper with chilli powder or double up the amount of black pepper instead?
- November 15, 2009 at 8:31 PM
- Chef John said...
chili powder is much different, and double bp would be too much, just leave out.
- November 15, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- DianShan said...
Thanks Chef John! I'm going to try out this recipe tonight!
BTW, regarding the unsweetened chocolate, is it the same as baking chocolate? I was able to get bittersweet chocolate but only saw 'No sugar added' milk chocolate at the store.
- November 15, 2009 at 8:41 PM
- Chef John said...
yes, usually baking chocolate is unsweetened, but it should say.
- November 16, 2009 at 1:45 AM
- DianShan said...
They are delicious!! I left out the cayenne pepper & did all the rest accordingly & they are just melt in your mouth delicious! I may just add additional 1/8tsp ground bp the next time to test the recipe
- November 16, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Hi, I realize that you only use normal fine sugar in the making of your cookies, can I have your opinion regarding replacing some fine/white sugar with brown sugar? Lastly, I never like raisins in my chocolates or cookies, but can I know roughly what is the taste of mixing raisins and kahlua together? Thanks!
- December 4, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- Chef John said...
I can't describe raisin's taste, if you don't like, you wont like here. Also, I've never tried with brown sugar but should work,
- December 4, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Any suggestions for doing making this recipe for a diabetic?
- December 7, 2009 at 9:53 AM
- Chef John said...
sorry, I don't. I'm sure there are tons of websites that have versions for you though.
- December 7, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Really delicious cookies! I tried them today and they turned out great. They were a bit flatter than yours, but I actually like flat cookies.
- April 19, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- the Domestic Goddess said...
Help! I made these and they are sooo delicious, but they retained their ball shape throughout cooking. I don't know what I did wrong. I am making them for a party this weekend. Can you help?
- April 25, 2010 at 8:26 PM
- Chef John said...
No idea!! Maybe overmixed? That's strange.
- April 25, 2010 at 9:09 PM
Chef John, these cookies are absolutely addictive. I made a batch as a farewell gift for some friends and before I knew it, I finished it all :D
- June 13, 2010 at 6:42 PM
Chef John ---
Could I make the dough a couple days in advance and keep it in the fridge (or freezer)? Any downside to that? Thanks, I look forward to making this for Christmas!
- December 23, 2010 at 8:22 PM
- Chef John said...
should be fine!
- December 23, 2010 at 8:26 PM
You use cayenne pepper a lot in your receipes, can I substitute it with Indian red chilli powder?
- January 26, 2011 at 11:52 AM
- genesis said...
do i have your blessing to leave out the currants? i couldnt find any, and frankly i dont like the taste of raisins
- March 21, 2011 at 6:27 AM
- Chef John said...
I think we both know the answer to that. ;-)
- March 21, 2011 at 12:00 PM
This is a very, very, very good cookie. This an adult chocolate cookie. Kudos to your wife, and kudos to you for marrying her. I made a cocktail to accompany them: 1 part Bailey's, 1 part Chambord, 1/2 part creme de cacao, 1/2 part vanilla vodka, 1 part creme. Shake with ice, serve in a martini glass, shave a touch of nutmeg over the top to garnish. Cookies and milk for adults.
- March 25, 2011 at 12:44 PM
- Slanecek said...
I love the idea of milk for adults! And I love this recipe. Made them couple times, I didn't find cayenne though so I used dried chili peppers and they worked fantastic. I also often substitute dried currants with candied orange peels and kahlua with cointreau. Amazing. Last time I used home made butter and they turned just excelent.
- April 5, 2011 at 4:53 PM
- Unknown said...
If I leave out the Kahlua and currants do I need to put in more liquid? Less maybe? Will the taking out of those two affect this recipe?
Besides lost deliciousness that is- my family equates dried fruits in cookies as blasphemy.
- April 10, 2011 at 8:34 PM
- Chef John said...
you can omit, but not as good!
- April 10, 2011 at 9:03 PM
- Mohammad Khan said...
On the Kahlua, could you use instant coffee as a substitute or regular coffee?
- August 17, 2011 at 8:48 PM
- Chef John said...
Sorry, not really the same.
- August 17, 2011 at 9:18 PM
I don't have Kahlua at home, but I have brandy and dark rum. Which one would be the closest substitute in terms of taste?
- September 1, 2011 at 8:37 AM
- Chef John said...
Dark rum!
- September 1, 2011 at 12:01 PM
do you have to use bittersweet chocolate or can you just use unsweetened chocolate? x
- September 18, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Are these the crunchy types or soft, Chef John?
Could I request a biscuit video, like ginger snaps?
- November 7, 2011 at 5:57 AM
Tried making these cookies but too many things went wrong =(
Put in wayyyyyyy too much butter, tried to compensate with extra flour, used cold eggs instead of room temperature. Ended up with cookies that oozed all over the tray!
Felt like crying but i'm gonna try it again. wish me luck!
- November 7, 2011 at 7:14 AM
Chef John, could I request your reply. I am keen to try these.
Are these the crunchy type cookies or soft?
Could I also request a biscuit video, like ginger snaps?
- November 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Chef John said...
they are mostly soft, with a little crisp around the edges.
- November 9, 2011 at 11:46 AM
Thanks Chef John!
In case you do a ginger snap/biscuit recipe, a healthier version would be great!
Keep up the fab work! You do make cooking easier for many of us!
- November 9, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Chef John, can teenagers and children under 18 eat these cookies with Kahlua?
Also, how long can these cookies be stored after baking?
Many thanks in advance to you and Michelle.
- November 19, 2011 at 12:15 PM
- Rachel said...
Hi, these cookies look wonderfully interesting. Did I read the ingredient list correctly? Is it really only 1/2 cup of flour?
- December 3, 2011 at 7:52 PM
- Chef John said...
Yes, 1/2 cup, but not sifted first. Just scoop it out of the bag.
- December 3, 2011 at 9:20 PM
I apologize for even asking, but any suggestions for a sub for the currants that's not fruit? Could I sub nuts for the currants?
- December 9, 2011 at 11:26 AM
- Chef John said...
Of course!! They're your cookies! Put what u like!
- December 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM
This recipe looks fabulous. I can't wait to try it. Putting up the Christmas tree today and baking cookies tonight. These will be on my list of Christmas cookies this year. If you have a recipe for a great ginger snap, please let me know. I love ginger snaps, but they have to be flavorful, and with a good snap. Many recipes I've found are chewy. They should be called 'ginger chews', not snaps.
- December 11, 2011 at 2:13 PM
Thank you Chef John, for this recipe. I find the cookies a little too sweet for my taste, but love the spicy kick. They will be highly addictive I assume...
- December 12, 2011 at 8:50 PM
Hi me and my mother are making these cookies for christmas and my grandmother doesnt like spice so much but loves these cookies... any suggestions? Mom says to leave out the pepper but would that mess up the cookies?? Thanks
- December 18, 2011 at 10:21 PM
- Chef John said...
leave it out!
- December 18, 2011 at 11:37 PM
- Tom A Johnson said...
I baked these yesterday with a friend and we used Amaretto instead of Kahlua. The results were amazing and I find it hard to imagine that using Kahlua would make them taste any better. I handed out a few at a dance Sunday night and floored everybody.
- December 19, 2011 at 3:01 AM
- Megan said...
My local grocery store does not carry dried currants and all of amazon.com's "currants" are actually just dried grapes.
Where do you get dried black currants from? I am reluctant to substitute dried grapes since they are so bland. Maybe dried cranberries or dried tart cherries would work.
- April 2, 2012 at 11:04 PM
Finally got all the ingredients together and made them today with my daughter. We've been looking forward to this for a while. The cookies are delicious, and we love the cayenne and peppery bite to the rich chocolatey flavor. Thanks for the recipe.
- April 10, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Dear Chef John,
I just made these cookies and ate one while still warm. So good!
I substitutet the currants with raisins and did a few other minor changes, because I'm the boss of my cookies. ;-) They came out really delicious!
Thanks for the great recipe. Greetings from Germany!
- April 13, 2012 at 3:30 AM
Chef John,
I after I added in my chocolate mixture, my batter started to thicken up a lot instead of being liquidy like yours. Any tips? Thanks!
- May 23, 2012 at 3:24 AM
- Unknown said...
I'd never thought that it would turn out to be this delicious!! Thanks for sharing this recipe Chef John!
- April 20, 2013 at 6:00 AM
- Unknown said...
What makes people think these cookies aren't suitable for kids? There's 2 tbsp 20% liqueur in the entire batch. That's 30 ml, or 6 ml ethanol, which is 0.6 units. In 24 cookies that's 0.025 units each.
How many Units to get little Timmy tipsy? 3? That's 120 cookies without taking into account you let most of it evaporate in the pan and oven, and that the cookies you're not "drinking" on an empty stomach.
- June 3, 2013 at 5:01 PM
- Beth said...
Do you measure your flour by spooning it into the measuring cup, or do you dip-and-sweep it? I'm more used to weight measurements. Thanks!
- July 3, 2013 at 12:19 AM
- Chef John said...
Sorry, I honestly don't remember!
- July 3, 2013 at 12:45 AM
- Chef John said...
I usually dip.
- July 3, 2013 at 12:45 AM
These were too sweet for me, but too delicious and intriguing to leave behind, so I tweaked.
I subbed 1/2 cup of cacao nibs and 1/2 cup chopped bitter (not unsweetened) chocolate for the for chocolate chips. This helped a lot!
Would reducing the sugar mess with the chemistry?
- July 7, 2013 at 3:36 PM
- Isaac said...
Just made these, they are fanfreakingtastic. Can't wait to try your tomato bisque recipe next! Chef John, you are a gentleman and a scholar.
- October 4, 2013 at 8:18 PM
- L said...
I was very excited to make these cookies, but upon tasting them I was disappointed to find out they taste just like Dutch chocolate 'pepernoten'. You can buy those in any supermarket and many other stores in the Netherlands from October to December.
- December 9, 2013 at 5:04 AM
Hi dear... Let me start with I LOVE YOUR WORK!!!
I'm planning at last to get to this recipe.. But I'm making it for my daughter's birthday so NO Kahlua... Can you advise me with something to replace it with?? PLEASE?!?
Nora Cassandra
- September 6, 2014 at 8:33 AM
- Unknown said...
For anyone wondering, dried BLUEBERRIES worked great as a sub for currants. I used dried wild blueberries and espresso as I discovered I was out of kuhlua. These are worth making.
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Recently, DuckDuckGo has been turning up in my referrers list. Curious about the name, and thinking it was a spam site, DuckDuckGo needed investigation.
Seems I've been missing out on what could be the major competition to Google as a search engine.
Here is a quick summary of what I learned about DuckDuckGo.
- It is an open source search engine project launched in 2008.
- It respects privacy and does not collect data about you as you search and click.
- It features a minimalistic interface similar to Google, but the search results pageview is a bit more responsive and informative.
- DuckDuckGo uses its own web crawler to index the web, and compiles the results with "structured content like Wikipedia" and Wolfram|Alfa, improving the relevancy of the results.
- Search results include concentrated removal of spam and clutter, potentially returning cleaner and more relevant results.
- It was a one person project, originally run by founder Gabriel Weinberg for the first three years of the search engine's life. Hiring the first employee in October 2011, it now has five full-time employees and 10 part-timers.
- As of August 2012, DuckDuckGo averages 1.4 million million searches a day. They offer a live traffic report chart with the stats.
- DuckDuckGo only accounts for an estimated 0.1 percent of all US search traffic, according to results from tracking firm comScore. Half of its traffic comes from overseas, specifically Europe.
- It doesn't use a "filter bubble" to personalize search results, creating a more stable search result for every user not just you.
- In addition to the search engine website, they have an iPhone and Android app, and a variety of plugins and add-ons for most of the major web browsers.
- In May 2012, they put out a challenge for DuckDuckHack – an open invitation to hackers to hack its search results, write plugins, and improve the open source search engine platform.
- DuckDuckGo offers a DuckDuckGo Goodies page, called "Zero-click" search results, for fun and to speed up access to popular searches.
- DuckDuckGo is built with open source tools including FreeBSD, Nginix, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu, and Perl. Some of the code is distributed free on GitHub.
- DuckDuckGo survives and makes money through venture capital funding, contextual advertising, ecommerce site affiliate links (commission if you make a purchase as a result of your search), and relevant sponsored links to companies at the top of search results pages.
- DuckDuckGo offers a short domain of http://ddg.gg which redirects to their encrypted site.
- Linux Mint, Trisquel, and Midori use DuckDuckGo as their default search engine.
- If you like to side with the anti-establishment, according to The Next Web Insider, DuckDuckGo is the default search engine for Anonymous, the infamous hacker group noted for their publicized protest hacks around the world.
- Founder Gabriel Weinberg sold The Names Database to United Online in 2006 for $10 million, and has continued working in the startup and angel investing industry. He blogs regularly on angel investing, startups, acquisitions, hiring, marketing, programming, and of course, DuckDuckGo.
My favorite description of DuckDuckGo came from an interview with Harry McCracken of Time Magazine Techland column, "Duck Duck Go, the In-N-Out Burger of Search Engines," also used in the Wikipedia page on the search engine. He refers to the popular US chain of no-nonsense hamburger drive-thrus.
It feels a lot like early Google, with a stripped-down home page. Just as In-N-Out doesn't have lattes or Asian salads or sundaes or scrambled eggs, DDG doesn't try to do news or blogs or books or images. There's no auto-completion or instant results. It just offers core Web search—mostly the "ten blue links" approach that's still really useful, no matter what its critics say…As for the quality, I'm not saying that Weinberg has figured out a way to return more relevant results than Google's mighty search team. But Duck Duck Go…is really good at bringing back useful sites. It all feels meaty and straightforward and filler-free…
Lifehacker reviewed DuckDuckGo and called it their "favorite alternative search engine."
Our favorite alternative is DuckDuckGo, a search engine that focuses on your privacy, while also packing itself with great features for power users, like searching specific sites with a bang (e.g. !lifehacker jailbreak iphone), keyboard shortcuts that help you navigate your results, and even integration with other services like Wolfram Alpha for quick answers to certain things (like unit conversions, calculations, and other facts).
As a long time fan of Wolfram|Alpha, having it tied into DuckDuckGo scores big points for me.
Digital Trends reviewed DuckDuckGo and called it a breath of fresh air.
DuckDuckGo offers the proverbial, "breath of fresh air." While Google's results are chock full of biased articles that our friends have recommended on Google Plus, or direct us to websites infected with malware, Weinberg prides his creation on its four pillars of excellence: "Our four primary focuses in this regard have been aggressively ridding spam and irrelevant results, reducing clutter as much as possible, adding instant answers from great sources above links whenever more relevant, and offering real privacy," said Weinberg in an interview with Digital Trends. In other words, DuckDuckGo's number one priority is protecting you, the user, from the dangers of the online world.
In 2010, Ostatic reviewed DuckDuckGo.
The search results from DuckDuckGo are clean and easy to read. More importantly, the results are generally just as accurate as a similar search with Google, if not more. DuckDuckGo also makes a point of not collecting any user data. When you do a search in Google, a lot of personally identifiable information is recorded and stored for an indefinite period of time. Google has come under attack by privacy advocates for its stance on the subject, but DuckDuckGo easily sidesteps the issue by making a point of collecting data anonymously from the start.
By far my favorite feature of DuckDuckGo is how hacker friendly it is. You can navigate search results using vi key bindings. I'm a long time vi user, so much so that the h, j, k, and l keys are memorized in the muscle of my fingers. I don't even have to think about navigating through the DuckDuckGo search results, and I don't have to lift my hands from the keyboard to use the mouse. Awesome.
Time Magazine included DuckDuckGo in their 50 Best Websites of 2011 at number 21.
Some of the largest companies on the Web have attempted to compete with Google and failed. DuckDuckGo, on the other hand, is about as small as a company can be — it has one full-time employee — and has come up with one of the most appealing Google alternatives to date. It doesn't involve e-mail, maps, real-time results or social networking. It's just a simple, straightforward search engine that's reminiscent of early Google, with a no-nonsense privacy policy (it will not store any information that could tie you to your searches). Best of all, the results are dependably relevant and devoid of spam.
PCMag also included DuckDuckGo in their top 100 websites for 2011, crediting the privacy and extra relevance in search results. They chastised Google by saying, "It may just be following the 'Don't be evil' credo that Google once exposed."
DuckDuckGo and Search Engine Privacy
The Atlantic published a chart of "people freaking out about online privacy" in March 2012. The chart was actually a measurement of DuckDuckGo's spikes in usage in relationship to privacy events across the web. The chart is part of DuckDuckGo's marketing of their privacy protection and non-tracking policies.
But it seems to coincide with something bigger, too: the public's growing awareness of the many trade-offs of online privacy, particularly when it comes to Google. So the chart above suggests on the one hand an upstart search engine growing its base of users. But it also suggests, on the other, a base of users who are panicking about their privacy — slowly, steadily, and then, whoa, exponentially.
It's fairly common for me to meet with clients and students very cautious and a bit paranoid about Google becoming the next big brother, and many are very wary of privacy issues on social media networks. There is a definite trend of awareness and resistance to requests for personal information beyond the basics. A search engine focused on protecting that privacy could go a long way with savvy web users.
According to DuckDuckGo's own stats page, the source of the chart used by The Atlantic, they experienced impressive growth in search engine queries and traffic of 227% in the first quarter of 2012. They admit that their own marketing worked, but also claim the growth was fueled by current events related to privacy lawsuits and violations from major social media and Internet companies. It's impressive no matter what the reason.
So how does it really work?
The specifics are outlined in DuckDuckGo's Privacy statement. They state that they do not collect or share personal information.
Eileen Brown of ZDNet described the privacy features of DuckDuckGo:
DuckDuckGo does not store your data and it does not send your search terms to any of the sites you visited for that search term. That means it does not filter the results based on the information you have previously given it. You get the same results as everyone else does when searching for a page.
It also stops any searches from being traced back to you. With Google searches, information about your IP address, your User Agent and cookie information is sent to the web site. If you are logged in to your Google account, it sends your name and email address too.
Web sites potentially can gather a lot of information about you. As can the search engines. And they might have to give the information over to the authorities if asked for.
Privacy related search engines such as ixquick are used more and more often. There is a downside though. The tight control on privacy means that you do not get any search history if you are making several related searches. Nor do you get auto correct when you type your search query.
DuckDuckGo's Privacy statement goes on to explain why you should care about what they call "Search Leakage," when your search terms are sent to the site you are search, thus exposing your search terms. Along with the search terms, your user agent, IP address, and other information is collected for analytics and statistics.
Web Analytics folks, bloggers, and SEO experts rely on this data to analyze what keywords are bringing visitors to a site. DuckDuckGo prevents search leakage by not passing on the information of your search request. A search engine that doesn't pass on this information could shake up the analytics market reliant on tracking visitors.
It also includes lengthy discussions on privacy issues for search history, what information they do not collect, and what they do, along with the information they share, or do not share, with others. Sharing and selling collected search data is big money to Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
DuckDuckGo does not use cookies by default. They do save searches, but not in a "personally identifiable way" with your IP address, etc. They may add affiliate code to major ecommerce sites to generate commission income when you make purchases at those sites, a simple way of generating income for the search engine.
In an interview with Time Magazine, DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg talked about why he stopped tracking IP addresses and started taking privacy more seriously.
The more he talked to people on sites like Reddit, the more he began to question Google's way of doing things. "I thought it was kind of creepy that search engines would have all of that data when someone had not opted in to share it," says Weinberg. "There was also this history of search engines being subpoenaed for records of people's personal search histories. I didn't really like the idea of being subpoenaed. I figured it would only be a matter of time, so I really wanted to get that out of my hands. That's why I decided to stop storing IP addresses."
The idea is that the Feds or police won't come knocking on the company's door because it doesn't have anything to give them. It also means that DuckDuckGo doesn't have certain resources and features that other search engines do, such as targeted advertising and saved search histories.
In a review of DuckDuckGo by Digital Trends, they describe US government requests from Google for user data.
In the United States, from January to June 2011 alone, the government served Google 5,950 user data requests, with an astounding compliance rate of 93 percent. What's even scarier is that Google reported an increase in data removal requests by 29%, compared to the previous data reporting period of July to December 2010. While Google itself may not knock on your door, law enforcement officials one day may.
DuckDuckGo isn't the only or first search engine to realize the impact of privacy issues for searchers and themselves. For a list of search engines offering anonymous Internet searches, which includes DuckDuckGo, see this list by Hacker 10 – Security Hacker.
The Story Behind DuckDuckGo
In an interview with Weinberg on TechSpot Reviews, the founder described why he started a new search engine.
I didn't set out to do a search engine, but experimented a bit with some projects that I thought would be useful in search, things like more aggressively identifying spam and removing that from search results, and then using structured content like Wikipedia to improve results.
About a year into that I figured "hey, I could turn this into a search engine." I decided to package it up into something I could launch and was just surprised at the response of people, so I decided to really focus on it.
SearchEngineLand says that DuckDuckGo could be the biggest long-term threat to Google, saying it gives more instant answers, less spam and clutter, "real" privacy with promises not to track you, and "lots of goodies."
The article is an excellent read as it explains the challenges facing search engine competitors. When it comes to consumer search competencies, there are two in which a search engine must excel to succeed: retrieval and presentation. Retrieval is the gathering and processing of the search results. Presentation is the way the information is presented to the user, scored by the speed at which the user can find the information they need.
According to SearchEngineLand's Mathan Safran, DuckDuckGo (DDG) wins almost across the board, but succeeds best in presentation of the search results.
The conclusion from our Google – DuckDuckGo SERP comparison for several query types is that DDG is clearly innovating in search 'presentation' — an area that has arguably decayed over the years as the large search engines rush to cram ever more (images, video, local, advertising, social…) into the search results.
Specifically, DDG has successfully reduced the 'searcher work quotient', improving on the 'get in and get out' standard. With negative publicity around Google's recent changes that have not always been described as a positive step forward for the SERPs, one could easily argue that there is pent-up consumer demand for just such a change.
The article also reminded us of when some little whipper snapper search engine called Google showed up 15 years ago, Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, and many others dismissed the young upstart.
What are the DuckDuckGo Goodies?
Many of the articles refer to the great "goodies" that DuckDuckGo offers.
In addition to Firefox, Chrome, and other browser extensions and tools and Android and iPhone apps, it offers a DuckDuckGo Goodies page with easy to use calculations for man, square roots and other computations, conversions for sizes, speeds, dates, temperatures, and money, date estimators and searches, entertainment questions, random facts, food and recipes, geography – the list goes on and on.
On the right side of the page are "Special Stuff" which include a list of the various Keyboard Shortcuts and advanced search Syntax methods.
Location aware tools are also fascinating as you can find out the time, weather, sunrise and sunset times, tides, and more with one click.
It also features what it calls "Zero-click Info" sources directing the user to the most frequent search sources for Wikipedia, lyrics, dictionaries, maps, etc., found through DuckDuckGo search results. There are some fascinating searches including find studs (for the home builder and DIY not the other), Kid rock schedule, i'm a walking contradiction, and a little ego search for DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg on Crunchbase.
Plugins and tools created by general hackers and coders receive public credit under each tool on the page. That's a very nice, inclusive touch.
Why Do You Need to Know About DuckDuckGo
Why should you know or care about DuckDuckGo? Should we be paying attention to this oddly named search engine that makes it difficult to say "Go DuckDuckGo it?"
There are many reasons. The most important is the impact of privacy protection, and violations, for your online life and work.
Bloggers are the first voices in the crowd to cry out against infringements of all kinds, and violation of privacy is a huge infringement.
I'm not paranoid. That's a fact. Search engines and social media networks dating back to the early days of the web have been tracking your every move.
Since the earliest days of Internet Explorer, the browser has been tracking every move of your life through the web and using and selling the information. In December 201, Microsoft announced support of Do Not Track (DNT) and their marketing department and advertisers and web analytics watchers protested strongly about making DNT the default. They want the users to opt out rather than opt in. With so few understanding the complexities, it is likely few will opt out.
In January 2011, Mozilla announced Firefox would also provide a DNT option, and other browsers followed except for Google Chrome which continues to track.
Things got complicated a few days ago when Apache Web server software announced they are overriding Internet Explorer 10's Do Not Track settings. The battle over privacy issues is just beginning.
Facebook has been in trouble for the past few years for switching their privacy statement around almost monthly. In 2006, AOL was sued for "search data leaks" when they were caught releasing private user information to the open web. They weren't the first, and they aren't the last.
The concept of the "filter bubble" continues to grow in interest, including advice on how to break out of profiled search results. The Filter Bubble is a site and book by Eli Pariser of Upworthy and MoveOn fame dedicated to filter bubble information, including what you can do to bring back the "neutral, un-filtered, un-personalized web."
We need to educate ourselves and our readers about protecting our privacy, explaining what is tracked and what is not, and how that data is used as we move through the web.
We also need to explore the impact of a trackless search engine in our SEO driven life and work. If more and more of our visitors are visiting anonymously, restricting the information picked up by web analytics programs like Google Analytics, how will we track referrals and traffic? How will we monitor how we are doing in the search engine results pages (SERP) (formerly PageRank) obsessed industry.
How will this change how you blog and how you fuel search engines?
Lastly, we all love kick starters, whipper snappers, and underdogs nipping at the heels of the monolithic monsters of the world. DuckDuckGo is a modern David and Goliath, a story that never loses its power. That's a story worth sharing.
You can find out more about the specifics of the company in their Support Center articles about the company and the service in general.
Here are more reviews and editorial commentary about DuckDuckGo.
- DuckDuckGo on Wikipedia
- Search Insurgents Pair Up Against Spam … and Google – Wired.com
- Interview With Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo – Unfinished Man
- Interview with DuckDuckGo founder Gabriel Weinberg – TechSpot Reviews
- Duck Duck Go: Silly Name, Interesting Search Engine – ReadWriteWeb
- Gabriel Weinberg on search engine DuckDuckGo | Interview | .net magazine
- DuckDuckGo – An Exclusive Interview With Founder, Gabriel Weinberg – Killer Startups
- DuckDuckGo Search Engine Review | Kikabink Reviews – Internet Marketing Product Reviews
- DuckDuck Go Review – An Alternative Search Engine to Google – Hallam Internet Limited
- DuckDuckGo: The Default Search Engine for Anonymous – The Next Web
- DuckDuckGo Search Traffic Up 227% In 3 Months – The Next Web
- DuckDuckGo To Google, Bing Users: Escape Them Filter Bubbles! | TechCrunch
- DuckDuckGo: Ditch Google, Bing for Unfiltered Search – Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
- DuckDuckGo Questions Quality, Accuracy Of Search Engine Traffic Numbers – Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
- DuckDuckGo: A New Search Engine Built from Open Source
- How The Founder Of Duck Duck Go Previously Bootstrapped A $10 Mil Company – with Gabriel Weinberg | Business Tips
- DuckDuckGo Aims To Beat Google With New Search Features | TPM Idea Lab
- Let's Ditch Google for DuckDuckGo — The Brooks Review
- The Basement Coders Developer Podcast » Episode 34 – Interview with DuckDuckGo's Gabriel Weinberg
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The courtroom ordeal for the families of Paris Harbin and Chandy Bresee-Plumb ended Friday when Federal Magistrate Judge Gary Fenner sentenced former gang leader Thomas "Mad Dog" Smith to three consecutive life terms for their murder, but the mourning goes on.
"It was just killing us for him to stand there and say he has no remorse," said Paris Harbin's grandmother Jessielene Harbin of Joplin after the sentencing hearing at the federal courthouse in Springfield. "That's my tax money that's going to let him live the life of Riley in prison. I'm an older woman and I still have to work. He wasn't sentenced to death, but he will meet his own death in prison."
Smith was convicted Feb. 7 of two counts of first degree murder in the execution-style killings of Harbin and Bresee-Plumb in their south-Joplin home in December 1999.
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According to the U.S. attorney's office, on the first day of the trial, Smith pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of crack cocaine in Jasper County from as early as January 1999 to December 2000. Each of those convictions resulted in a term of life imprisonment in Friday's sentence, which the court ordered to be served consecutively.
Smith and other members of the gang moved to Joplin from Tulsa, Okla., bringing a wave of drug distribution and drug-related violence from 1999 through 2001. Smith, who believed that Harbin was involved in the theft of money and a large quantity of crack cocaine from his crack house, confronted him in an upstairs bedroom at a friend's apartment and shot each of the victims twice Dec. 13, 1999.
Smith is the final co-defendant to be sentenced on charges contained in the May 2, 2002, federal indictment and subsequent superseding indictments.
Smith had plenty to say before sentence was pronounced.
He said he knew he'd spend the rest of his life in prison when he was arrested in 2002, but he had no remorse for the life he led.
"I would like to feel some remorse, some regret, but I don't," Smith said when given the chance to make a statement by the judge. "I've not lost one night's sleep over anything that has happened, and I won't. It's been a long road, and I guess I'm at the end of it."
Smith went on to congratulate the Joplin Police Department for "manufacturing the evidence against me," and accused federal prosecutor David Rush of being "drunk" for calling some of the witnesses he called. He also said he considered the outcome of the case a win because he wasn't sentenced to death.
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Twitter said in a blog post on Friday it detected attempts to gain access to its user data earlier in the week. It shut down one attack moments after it was detected.
But Twitter discovered that the attackers may have stolen user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords belonging to 250,000 users they describe as "a very small percentage of our users." The company reset the pilfered passwords and sent emails advising the affected users.
The Twitter attack comes on the heels of recent hacks into the computer systems of US companies, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Both newspapers reported this week that their computer systems had been infiltrated by China-based hackers, likely to monitor media coverage the Chinese government deems important.
On Friday, The Washington Post disclosed in an article published on its website that it was also the target of a sophisticated cyberattack, which was discovered in 2011 and was first reported by an independent cybersecurity blog. Washington Post spokeswoman, Kris Coratti, didn't offer any details including the duration of the attack or the origins. But according to sources that the newspaper quoted, who it said spoke on condition of anonymity, the intruders gained access as early as 2008 or 2009. According to the sources, Chinese hackers are also suspected.
Coratti couldn't be reached immediately for comment by The Associated Press. According to her comments made to the newspaper, the company worked with security company Mandiant to "detect, investigate and remediate the situation promptly at the end of 2011."
China has been accused of mounting a widespread, aggressive cyber-spying campaign for several years, trying to steal classified information and corporate secrets and to intimidate critics. The Chinese foreign ministry could not be reached for comment Saturday, but the Chinese government has said those accusations are baseless and that China itself is a victim of cyberattacks.
Twitter didn't provide any clues as to whether it believes that China was behind its hack. However, the blog post by the company's director of information security, Bob Lord, made clear that the hackers knew what they were doing. Lord said in the blog that the attack ``was not the work of amateurs, and we do not believe it was an isolated incident.''
"The attackers were extremely sophisticated, and we believe other companies and organizations have also been recently similarly attacked,'' Lord said. ``For that reason we felt that it was important to publicize this attack while we still gather information, and we are helping government and federal law enforcement in their effort to find and prosecute these attackers to make the Internet safer for all users."
Reached on Saturday, Twitter spokesman Jim Prosser had no further comment.
Based on the few details released about the Twitter and Washington Post attacks it's hard to say whether Chinese hackers were involved, said Rich Mogull, CEO of Securosis, an independent security research and advisory firm. There are certain pieces of malicious software that are characteristic to Chinese hackers, he said, but ``the problem is not enough has been made public.''
One theory is that the Twitter hack happened after an employee's home or work computer was compromised through vulnerabilities in Java, a commonly used computing language whose weaknesses have been well publicized. Independent privacy and security researcher Ashkan Soltani said such a move would give attackers ``a toehold'' in Twitter's internal network, potentially allowing them either to sniff out user information as it traveled across the company's system or break into specific areas, such as the authentication servers that process users' passwords.
The relatively small number of users affected suggests that attackers weren't on the network long or that they were only able to compromise a subset of the company's servers, Soltani said.
Twitter is generally used to broadcast messages to the public, so the hack might not immediately have yielded any important secrets. But the stolen credentials could be used to eavesdrop on private messages or track which Internet address a user is posting from.
That might be useful, for example, for an authoritarian regime trying to keep tabs on a journalist's movements.
"More realistically, someone could use that as an entry point into another service," Soltani said, noting that since few people bother using different passwords for different services, a password stolen from Twitter might be just as handy for reading a journalist's emails.
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Monday, May 24, 2010
Creamy Onion and Blue Cheese Soup - Meatless Monday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...The weather turned cool and wet on Saturday. Really wet. It was not a day for salads, so I pulled an untried soup recipe from my files and had a go at it. This turned out to be a nice soup, perfect for a rainy Saturday or Meatless Monday, but I must warn you, it is not for the feint of heart. To say it is strongly flavored is an understatement, but if you love French onion soup, beer and blue cheese I suspect the first spoonful will make you a rabid fan. The recipe is much like any other you may have for French onion soup, save for the addition of lots and lots of blue cheese. The cheese gives the soup its creamy texture. I suggest you add it in increment and taste as you go along. Start with four ounces and work you way up the suggested range of measure. Eight ounces would have been ideal for me, but Bob preferred it with a full twelve ounces. The soup also uses beer instead of wine to boost flavor. A bit of caution should be exercised here. To avoid bitterness, use something that is mellow. I have, for years now, used a specific non-alcoholic beer for cooking that gives flavor without bitterness. I'm not a teetotaler. The Belgian beer that I prefer is not available in this area, but I've found that O'Doul's Amber Ale has a hops finish and is a reasonable substitute. I also puree roughly half of the soup to give it substance. While this will never replace my favorite French onion soup, I can recommend this soup to any who love strong flavors are looking to try something a bit out of the ordinary. Here's the recipe.
Creamy Onion and Blue Cheese Soup...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite adapted fro The Spoon
6 (8-oz.) yellow onions, thinly sliced
3 tablespoon butter or olive oil
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon brown sugar
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon dried thyme
1 bay leaf 1/2 teaspoon sage
6 cups vegetable stock or water
1 (12-oz.) bottle O'Doul's Amber Ale
4 to 12 ounces blue cheese, crumbled
1) Heat olive oil and butter in a large pot or Dutch oven until butter melt and mixture sizzles. Add onions and stir to coat. Cover pan and cook at a medium-low temperature for 15 to 20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until onions are tender and translucent. Uncover, raise heat to medium-high, and stir in salt and sugar. Cook, stirring only to prevent burning, until onions are a deep golden brown, about 30 to 45 minutes.
2) Lower heat to medium, stir in flour to form a paste with onions. Cook, stirring constantly, until flour is lightly brown, about 2 minutes. Add 1 cup of vegetable stock or water, stirring to blend stock with onion mixture. Add thyme, bay leaf and sage along with remain stock and beer to pot. Bring mixture to a simmer and cook slowly for 30 to 40 minutes. Place 1/3 to 1/2 of soup in a blender jar, Puree, being careful not to burn yourself. Return to pot. Add cheese in 4 ounce increments to taste. Add salt and pepper as required. Continue cooking over low heat for 30 minutes longer. Do not allow soup to boil once cheese has been added. Serve piping hot. Yield: 6 servings.
You might also enjoy these meatless entries:
Vegan Red Lentil and Pepper Flan - One Perfect Bite
Vegan Red Lentil Soup - One Perfect Bite
Pasta Primavera - One Perfect Bite
This recipe is being linked to Meatless Monday at My Sweet and Savory
53 comments :
- Nancy's Notes said...
Oh my goodness Mary! What a fabulous recipe, thank you so very much for sharing! My mouth is watering...yumm!
- May 24, 2010 at 1:14 PM
- Kait said...
Beer + Cheese = WINNER! Thank you for sharing this recipe. Soups are great for rainy days.
- May 24, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- Sushma Mallya said...
healthy and yummy soup,
- May 24, 2010 at 1:21 PM
- Maria said...
It is snowing in Utah today so this is perfect!
- May 24, 2010 at 1:27 PM
- The Blonde Duck said...
Anything with cheese is always divine.
- May 24, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- La Bella Cooks said...
So rich and decadent! My husband would love the blue cheese element so I may just have to give this one a try.
- May 24, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Sasha said...
This soup looks and sounds so chic. And I can practically smell it from that picture : )
- May 24, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Diane said...
This sounds wonderful and the forecast says our weather is due for a change tomorrow. Typical Nigel arrives!!! Diane
- May 24, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- Jonna said...
Hi Mary,
Oh my Goodness....I'm glad I found you as well! You site looks delicious, and I'll visit often as well. Thanks for visiting:
Thanks again,
- May 24, 2010 at 2:05 PM
- PeggyR said...
What a great soup! Unfortunately we are in the 80s here! But I will definitely be trying it once it cools down.
- May 24, 2010 at 2:08 PM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
Oh my, that would be a very hearty tasting soup. Possibly we would enjoy it. I would opt for the smaller amount of cheese myself. Hope your weather starting turning. It's time.
- May 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM
- Allie and Pattie said...
It looks gorgeous, Mary, and I suspect that I would enjoy it as you would with 8 ounces of cheese. I'm filing this to try. Thank you!
xoxo Pattie
- May 24, 2010 at 2:25 PM
- Martha said...
I made onion soup last week on our rainy Wednesday -- and it was perfect but this looks and sounds delicious and we both love blue cheese. It's getting to be summer on the prairie -- soups need to be cold! But it will be a good autumn soup.
- May 24, 2010 at 2:47 PM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Cheese soup! And it's even BLUE CHEESE! Looks so creamy and satisfying!
- May 24, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- RamblingTart said...
Oh mercy, Mary, this soup is marvelous!!! My Danish family are huge fans of blue cheese and I will have to make this for them on our next rainy day get together. :-) Yum!!
- May 24, 2010 at 3:08 PM
- Jen_from_NJ said...
Creamy onion and blue cheese sounds like a winning combination. Perfect for a meatless Monday meal!
- May 24, 2010 at 4:21 PM
- Alessandra said...
WIth Ale! I am learning something new every day!
Thank you Mary :-)
- May 24, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Janice said...
Fab recipe, but we are having a heat wave lol!
- May 24, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Janell said...
Thank you so much Mary for stopping by! I am LOVING your site as well. Adding it to my favorites! I LOVE sharing good food and it looks like your site is chocked FULL!!! :)
- May 24, 2010 at 5:20 PM
- tspegar said...
Thank you for the kind words about my blog. This soup sounds delicious. I have visited your blog before... it's lovely and simple. I really like it.
- May 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- Devaki said...
Dear Mary - You had me at ale! Love the combination of cheese, onions and beer.
What's not to love?
Ciao, Devaki @ weavethousandflavors
- May 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- Ren- Lady Of The Arts said...
I am a huge blue cheese fan. When my husband and I met he did not like it at all and now after ten years of marriage he's just as much into it as I am.
I don't know if I would sacrifice my regular blue cheese into a soup but at Trader Joe's they sell it crumbled and I sometimes get that to toss on salades. I would love to try this hearty soup, I might just have to wait until fall though- it's already hot here.
- May 24, 2010 at 5:40 PM
- Biren said...
Beer and blue cheese in a soup...sounds interesting. Good idea about adding in increments.
- May 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- Unknown said...
I love onion soup, and beer of course. But I'm not a big fan of blue cheese. I can have a small piece but I find it too rich. Anyway, the soup looks delicious. Have a great Monday Mary. Michael
- May 24, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- DailyChef said...
What a perfect recipe. Spring sunshine has been slow to come this year and I'm still in the mood for warm, delicious soup!
- May 24, 2010 at 6:26 PM
- Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...
Great recipe...love the photo...very inviting.
p.s. following you now on twitter. Fixed my twitter account.
- May 24, 2010 at 6:40 PM
- Martha said...
A little to hot here in Florida for soups now but it sure does look delicious Mary!
- May 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM
- Chef E said...
I may have just died and gone to soup heaven! I love intense flavors and this sounds great!
On my list to try now...
- May 24, 2010 at 7:05 PM
- tasteofbeirut said...
How interesting! a bottle of o'doul in the soup and then blue cheese! I have got to try it! Unfortunately the weather here has been in the 90s!
- May 24, 2010 at 7:15 PM
- Pondside said...
This sounds delicious, and just the thing for the half of a Costco sized blue cheese in the fridge!
- May 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM
- Baking is my Zen...sweet nibbles for the soul said...
I've had twitter issues...so it's private. Send me a twitter request and I'll add you!
- May 24, 2010 at 8:08 PM
- penny aka jeroxie said...
I have joined onto the band wagon and am doing meatless mondays as well. It is such a great movement. Let's support each other :)
- May 24, 2010 at 8:25 PM
- A SPICY PERSPECTIVE said...
This sounds so comforting--as all soups should be. It was a perfect choice for the rainy day!
Thanks for visiting A Spicy Perspective. Your kind words are very encouraging!
- May 24, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- Bossy Chef said...
Thank you so much for stopping by and saying hello, it was very sweet and meant a lot to me that you like my blog. I love yours.
Oh if I wasn't banned from Blue Cheese for the near future I would be making this tonight. Yum.
- May 24, 2010 at 9:15 PM
- Little Inbox said...
I really love the meatless dishes. Sounds healthy.
- May 24, 2010 at 9:38 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
I am such a blue cheese fan - this sounds fantastic, Mary!
- May 24, 2010 at 10:08 PM
- Pam said...
It's wet and cold here too Mary. This soup looks and sounds absolutely divine!
- May 24, 2010 at 10:16 PM
- Louis la Vache said...
«Louis» appreciates the use of the cheese in this recipe - we've got to keep his cousins employed, doncha know...
- May 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM
- Dewi said...
This is truly delicious and smooth looking soup Mary.
- May 24, 2010 at 10:51 PM
- Cristie said...
What an interesting soup. I'm not sure I've seen a blue cheese soup before, I love it!
- May 24, 2010 at 11:53 PM
- My Little Space said...
This sounds really seducing. Beer & cheese in soup! I had beer & cheese bread but not this! Hopefully, I don't feel dizzy after that. hehe... Though, it's a very comforting soup. Enjoy!
- May 25, 2010 at 1:52 AM
- Federica Simoni said...
come sempre una super ricetta!! baci!
- May 25, 2010 at 5:24 AM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
A very unique soup and it looks both creamy and delicious--yum!
- May 25, 2010 at 7:06 AM
- Salsa Verde said...
This recipe is fabulous. I love blue cheese and your soup look so creamy and delicious...
- May 25, 2010 at 7:37 AM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I am far from being feint-hearted Mary. I have some lovely goatgonzola in the fridge.
- May 25, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Claudia said...
I have some blue cheese begging for this recipe. Onions, blue cheese, ale - who could complain? We have soared into the 90's but this is MN - we will turn cold and I will make this.
- May 25, 2010 at 10:31 AM
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- May 25, 2010 at 4:26 PM
- Juliana said...
Wow, I cannot wait to try this! It's going on my list for next week's menu. Thanks!!
- May 25, 2010 at 6:04 PM
- Nina said...
Just stumbled across you blog doing research for mine. www.mommacooks.net
- May 26, 2010 at 12:50 AM
- Jan said...
I wanted to say hi and thank you for your kind comment on my blog.
I'm loving your blog Mary and I really like the idea of onion and blue cheese soup - it looks delicious!
- May 26, 2010 at 2:16 AM
- Tasha said...
This soup sounds perfect for us- as we love onion soup, blue cheese and beer! It's not even remotely close to cool weather where I live, but that won't stop me from giving this one a try soon!
- May 26, 2010 at 10:14 AM
- Chats the Comfy Cook said...
Mary, I would have like to have made this before I got back to you but this week was simply not the right time.
I Love the changes you made which must make some subtle difference for even better flavor.
Thanks for linking this to My Meatless Mondays.
- May 27, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- test it comm said...
Sweet onions and tangy blue cheese would go so well together in blue cheese form!
- May 29, 2010 at 8:23 PM


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This October, California Design 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way will open at LACMA. Part of the Getty's region-wide Pacific Standard Time initiative, the exhibition features modern design and craft from all over California—everything from necklaces to cars. The exhibit will examine the contexts surrounding well-known and loved designers like Charles and Ray Eames, as well as introducing some incredible designers that are not household names… yet.
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Russell Flinchum, Dreyfuss's biographer, put us in touch with James Conner, who designed the camera. Over the phone and email, the 88-year-old designer demonstrated his remarkable memory, walking me through details of the camera, such as its innovative light meter which displayed a straightforward "Yes" or "No" depending on whether or not the camera could take a successful picture.
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