Fun: Cooking Music Playlist

Two of my favorite things are cooking and music.  I find it difficult to focus in the kitchen without music in my ears.  I usually throw together a random cooking playlist or load a previous evenings culinary musical selection.

I got to thinking about the music I choose and if it had any correlation to the type of food I was preparing.  I quickly came to realize there is either no correlation, or to find said connection would require some
Dr. Ian Malcolm level mathematics.  Since Dr. Malcolm has yet to answer any of my fanboy email I’m going with an absence of any attractors, strange or otherwise.

I thought I might share a short list of some of the more common songs that echo through the hallowed halls of my kitchen when I am gettin’ my culinary thang on.  I’d really be interested in what some of you folks listen to.  I’ve always found the best way to new music is through the recommendation of friends, so please share your playlists!   So onto my list…

Madness – Muse
Steal My Sunshine – Len
South Side – Moby & Gwen Stefani
Still Alive – Portal closing credits song (Jonathon Coulton)
Humpty Dance – Digital Underground

Mike’s comments:

What have you been listening to in your kitchen this week?

News: Taco Bell Steals Concept From “Divas and Ballers” ?

Gary Cole, Federal Prison Inmate, Sues Taco Bell Over Doritos Locos Taco Invention:

Taco Bell claims that its product developers came up with the idea for the Doritos Locos Taco—probably the most successful new fast food item of the 21st century so far, with more than half a billion sold in the past 14 months—at a summit with Frito-Lay executives at its Irvine, CA, headquarters. But a lawsuit filed by federal prison inmate Gary Cole in the US district Court for the Northern District of Texas on May 15 alleges that the story behind the taco is a lie. In his 35-page handwritten complaint, Cole insists that he invented the Doritos Locos Taco—and that Taco Bell and Frito-Lay stole the idea from him through the mail. In September 2006, Cole wrote up a list of nine product ideas. Most of them were assorted products—hot sauces, body oils, health mixes—to be sold under the brand “Divas and Ballers.” But one, the second in the list, was “Taco Shells of All Flavors (Made of Doritos).” The complaint says Cole sent the list to Janice B. Cole and Keoiana K. Cole in September 2010—but that the letter was “stolen through the US Postal Service Mail and submitted to Frito Lay, Taco Bell, Pepsi Co, Yum Brands, “by someone whose identity remains a mystery to Cole. The companies gave the mail thief “a check…for a large amount” for the rights to his idea. Taco Bell responded with an emailed statement. “We have not been served with the lawsuit, but the claims we’ve read in online news sources are completely false and without merit.”