As a FoodBuzz Featured Publisher, we are sometimes offered free products to try and to blog about. You may recall that I was not at all impressed with the first batch of free stuff we got, the Quaker True Delights granola bars. So I wasn’t sure what to expect of the chocolates we received from Recchiuti, a San Francisco based chocolatier. To my surprise the chocolates were truly amazing.

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Whenever word of an interesting new restaurant hits the food blog-o-sphere, it seems like there’s a space of about two weeks when every food blog writes about it. This can have a few consequences: an oversaturation of coverage, lines out the door, etc. This is what happened at Num Pang, the Cambodian sandwich shop near Union Square. I myself fell victim to the hype; after all, I had a good meal at Kampuchea, which is owned my same people, and I love banh mi, so it seemed like a perfect match. So on a rainy day a few weeks ago I headed out to Num Pang for lunch.

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Congratulations to Kim, winner of the free copy of Spiced! You can also check out her blog, Thoughtful Palate. Thank you to everyone who entered! Hopefully we’ll have some more free stuff to give away soon.

Head on over to the Apple Movie Trailers page and watch the new trailer for Food, Inc., the new documentary about the food industry. The doc features such luminaries as authors Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, among many others. I know a lot of people are pinning their hopes on this movie as something that will really make a big change in the way food is produced and consumed in this country; while I have my doubts about the reach of this movie, I hope that those people are right.

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