What’s your favorite sci-fi related food? Earl Grey, hot? Soylent Green that isn’t people? Do you refer to your microwave as a food synthesizer or talk to your coffee machine? If so, and especially if you cook (or dreamed of cooking) with dry ice, we want to hear from you! SyFy has a new series, Marcel’s Quantum Kitchen, premiering on Tuesday, March 22 at 10 PM EST, featuring former Top Chef All Stars Marcel Vigneron’s “molecular gastronomy.” To celebrate, we’re giving away one Quantum Kitchen t-shirt.
To enter, simply type in the comments below:
If you post an ORIGINAL recipe, we’ll compile them altogether for a post on CliqueClack Food (and a cross-reference to CliqueClack TV).
Entries to this giveaway must be made by Friday, March 25th at 9 PM ET. We’ll pick one comment completely at random and alert the person picked in the following weeks (make sure your spam filter allows @cliqueclack.com addressed email!) Only one entry per person and you must have a valid U.S.-based mailing address. Not following these guidelines voids your entry. Good luck!
(You can track some of our most recent giveaway results on its dedicated page.)
Clacked by An Nicholson 
on Mar 18, 2011 @ 13:00 EST5EDT
I’m sorry you’re going there. You know, supporting Syfy in their continuing effort to leave science fiction behind. Syfy does not need any promotion or support in their efforts to dump science fiction. In fact, you should be chiding them for it, not supporting them.
I’m commenting so that if I win the shirt I will burn it and post the video on YouTube.
Here’s my recipe: Take one channel called Syfy, add scripted science fiction programming, skim off the reality scum, enjoy.
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<——- currently laughing his ass off at Tom
Would that laughing be:
1) In ridicule
2) In agreement with
3) At my face (I get this one a lot)
4) All of the above
5) None of the above
I can take any combination of the above. Having been married longer than dirt has existed I’m very used to ridicule.
The worst part is this show will probably last many seasons and from what I’ve read about the host, should contain copious amounts of foam.
(Couldn’t they have just cut to the chase and renamed it Syfy-ish?)
* Sigh * Tom, you’re ruining all my fun ;) I’ll be honest, the reason I jumped to provide the giveaway is because I have an obsession with Star Trek food. What with tablets (PADDS) and cell phones (communicators) making the scene, we’re living the 1960s future. So, I hoped this post would a) inspire people to provide the various sci fi dishes in existence, so I could compile them and post them in another piece. Also, b) I hoped people actually *did* do innovative space agey things with cooking. I gotta tell you, eating freeze dried mango is a different experience.
While I hoped the show would serve as a Mr. Wizard meets Bill Nye the Science Guy meets Cake Boss, especially with recipes like tuna-flavored watermelon, it seems as if it will mostly follow his catering/restaurant business around town.
I have dozens, if not hundreds, of recipes, but none of them are scifi themed, although some of them disappear off the plate at warp speed! All I can suggest is you buy some of that freeze-dried “astronaut ice cream” and try to enjoy it.
I’m not against a show like this per se, but it’s on the wrong channel (for now). Makes about as much sense as seeing an episode of LA Law on The Weather Channel (for now).
The show you’re looking for is called “Good Eats” and Alton Brown does it better than this oddly coiffed foameister will ever hope to.
An, I ruin everybody’s fun. It’s a living…
I’m hoping someone posts a recipe for Ktarian chocolate puff.
Ruby, I’d be all over that like a fat kid on Ktarian chocolate puff!
(Off topic, but I wanted to tell you that Outsourced is growing on me. The last episode I saw was when Charlie enlisted Gupta to help him become more culturally sensitive. I liked how Gupta explained part of what makes a cow sacred when he said something about the milk can continue to feed many while the mean can only feed a few. I guess I was as clueless as Charlie, but that makes so much sense I feel like a fool for not seeing it before! The characters are slowly getting some depth and that’s making it a much better show. I actually like Gupta now, which is a real 180 degree turn for me.)
1) I love Good Eats and Alton Brown!
2) Outsourced keeps getting better, Tom. The last episode (“Todd’s Holi War”) was one of the funniest they’ve done so far, and it shows how far characters like Rajiv and Madhuri have come since the pilot.
I’m glad to know the show keeps improving. I’ve really grown to like it in just the last few episodes now that there’s some depth to the characters. Knowing from you that the Indian characters are true to reality, at least when a sitcom is concerned, makes me appreciate them more. I understand the frustration when the media portrays your culture in a completely inaccurate way; probably not as much as you, but I understand from limited experience.
You’re right about Outsourced, Ruby. I just watched “Todd’s Holi War” and it was really fun, plus it was the first time I actually liked Rajiv! That’s an accomplishment.
I know it’s a bad comparison, but because of all the color splashing and paintballs it reminded me a little of Community’s paintball episode. It was a lot of fun, really silly and some characters got a chance to show more of who they are. I wish the show had been like this from the start, but I’m glad I stuck around. It’s improving while “Bleep My Dad Says” is just stagnating.
Yeah, I thought of that Community episode too, Tom. I get annoyed when people just dismiss Outsourced after watching maybe one episode. You can’t expect brilliant, 3-dimensional characters in 23 minutes! It’s the accumulation of details and history over the course of a series that creates well-rounded characters, and that’s happening on Outsourced, for the Indian characters at least.
And then there’s the “in-group humor” – people who don’t get Outsourced’s in-group humor zero in on the cheap gags and think that’s all there is. It’s too bad they’re missing the best part, but unfortunately no amount of explaining can make it funny for them; they either get it, or they don’t.
(An, sorry for hijacking your post.)
I’d love a recipe for a Pan-Galactic Gargleblaster cocktail mix. :)
*POST AUTHOR*
Nice one ;)
How about Tribble Cotton Candy?