Hi, everybody! There’s some exciting new things afoot at this long-neglected blog. Since I last wrote, my fellow fashionistas and I have started a new record label/art collective/party crew called, appropriately enough, Dinner Party Records. The label sprang from a series of Friday-night gourmet potluck dinners that segued us into the weekend’s craziness. We had great musicians, producers, artists, web developers, marketing people and business-minded folks in the group… Why not take over the world, eh?

The first product our new label will be selling is my new solo album, The White Pinecone, the making of which is what caused a break in my writing here. The music is some really fiery electronic/rock/dance/synthpop stuff. Check it out at the link above or click here for the Myspace page. I’m really excited about it, it’s some of my best work yet.

Dinner Party Records also contains a number of high-powered foodies and cooking obsessives like myself, and you’ll start seeing some contributions from those folks pop up here at feeding//fashionistas. In the meantime, I’m going to be reposting some of my very first pieces I wrote for this blog, just to get the jus flowing, so to speak- a series of articles on lovely/essential tools and ingredients with which to outfit your kitchen in serious style, for champagne cuisine on a Pabst budget. The first is from all the way back in October 2005, and it’s all about tools.

Cheers mates, get cooking!
-GC @ ff

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This is the first installment in my short series on inexpensively outfitting your kitchen for total culinary dominance. Where would Batman be without his utility belt? Where would Elvis be without his guitar and hip pads? Where would Paris Hilton be without her purse full of nasal drugs?

Nowhere, I tells ya.

This time around, I’ll be covering the bare essentials. The BASICS. I will be naming brands, and maybe even stealing a couple of images from manufacturer’s sites- but if you find something in your local store that seems to fit the bill and doesn’t align with exactly what I’ve outlined here, go for it. This stuff is cheap enough that you can afford to make mistakes.

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