Charity begins and ends at home for the team at the online magazine The Morning News. They got a practical idea while the lights were out in Brooklyn: get drunk and cook up everything that would soon spoil. Why they chose this over bowling rotten chicken carcasses past starving tourists in the lobby of the Tribeca Grand, or chucking spoiled eggs at all those do-gooders directing traffic for free at every intersection, we'll never understand.

"The rules for cooking were simple: there wasn't enough light to read a cookbook so recipes had to be invented. No ingredients could be brought in from outside the house, and all eggs, chicken thighs, and sausages had to be used; same with the cream, butter, leftover pesto, and some produce." It's a blackout cook-off only Dr. Atkins could love.
Recipes for a Blackout [The Morning News]