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August 24, 2012
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Food fight! The last Wednesday in August is a special day for Bunol, Spain, a small town near Valencia. Since 1945, people have been flocking here to participate in La Tomatina, a giant tomato festival and food fight. On this day, over 150,000 tomatoes are brought in, smashed (for safety precautions) and thrown, and the city’s population of around 9,000 increases to over 50,000. In America, many Spanish tapas restaurants have developed special menu items to honor the festive holiday. In New York City, Boqueria offers a bloody mary, tomato sangria and a variety of dishes such as Heirloom tomato salad throughout the month of August. In Washington, DC, Jaleo offered seven different tomato-based tapas during the week of August 6- 12. In Winter Park, Florida, mi Tomatina Paella Bar was named after the festival itself! How will you be celebrating La Tomatina?  —Lauren Katz, Online Editorial Intern

Food fight! The last Wednesday in August is a special day for Bunol, Spain, a small town near Valencia. Since 1945, people have been flocking here to participate in La Tomatina, a giant tomato festival and food fight. On this day, over 150,000 tomatoes are brought in, smashed (for safety precautions) and thrown, and the city’s population of around 9,000 increases to over 50,000.

In America, many Spanish tapas restaurants have developed special menu items to honor the festive holiday. In New York City, Boqueria offers a bloody mary, tomato sangria and a variety of dishes such as Heirloom tomato salad throughout the month of August. In Washington, DC, Jaleo offered seven different tomato-based tapas during the week of August 6- 12. In Winter Park, Florida, mi Tomatina Paella Bar was named after the festival itself! How will you be celebrating La Tomatina? 

—Lauren Katz, Online Editorial Intern

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June 06, 2012
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Who knew playing with food could be so genius?! I’m smitten by the whimsy and ingenuity that goes into the stop-motion work of “Pes” and his animation partner, Dillon Markey, in their viral videos. In their newest cooking foray, “Fresh Guacamole,” the amount of detail and culinary prowress is impressive, from rolling the “lime” along the table to extract the most juice to their choice of a lightbulb to represent the jalapeno and its removable seeds. Apparently Pes, too, is a skilled cook, admitting, “I know how to handle a knife and can draw on this knowledge in breaking it down into a still image sequence.”

First lauded for their “Food Fight” video, a summarized depiction of post-WWII American warfare using strictly food as its subject, Pes has gone on to tackle a variety of subjects, from skateboarders to spaghetti. For more info on Pes’ work—which director Michel Gondry describes as positively “glittering and exploding”—check out their website at http://www.eatpes.com/.

—Alexa Weibel, Senior Copy Editor

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