The Internet's Best Chef Blogs; Ice Cream Without the Maker

This week in food blogs ...

Eater offered up a handy guide to the Internet's best chef blogs.

Grub Street learned that the new T.G.I. Friday's in Union Square might get some of its food from the Greenmarket.

Midtown Lunch reported that the cops started cracking down on Mister Softee trucks after an "altercation."

Feast shouted out its favorite brunch places, including Balthazar, Back Forty, and Buttermilk Channel.

Atlantic Food discovered that Mark Twain might have been one of the first locavores.

Serious Eats revealed how you can make real ice cream at home without an ice cream machine.

The Food Section unearthed the perfect lemon squeezer called, appropriately, the Lemon Squeezer.

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