Close enough to hit the spot
Growing up, cauliflower was one of the vegetables I ate because I didn’t want to get in trouble. At my house, if it was on your plate, you ate it, and I don’t remember a whole lot of successful negotiations.
Today, that policy has truly paid off. First, I can eat [...]
Fairgoers know there is a certain logic to dining en brochette. You can keep walking as you eat, and the need for washing up can be kept to a minimum. Plus, afterward, you can poke your little brother with the pointy end, until your parents make you throw it away.
Here’s a video from the Minnesota [...]
Get an extra pita so you can use two hands
In America, hummus - the Middle Eastern dish made of chickpeas, tahini (ground sesame seeds), lemon juice and other flavorings - has largely been the province of vegetarians. Outside its ethnic base, it was adopted as a staple of hippie cuisine for its ability to provide [...]
From 1,000 miles away, this beacon called to me
When it comes to food that moved me, my brain is like a GPS receiver, with the coordinates of time and taste branded on my cerebellum. This has not always been a bowl of cherries, so to speak.
The problem with recalling the sensational flavors of far-off places [...]
The glasses won’t be this full - but there’ll be plenty to go around
The Buffalo Brewfest at the Central Terminal was such a huge success in September that organizers are talking about doing two days this year. In the meantime, if you like the idea of drinking good beer and eating good food to help [...]
My memory of the Wayside’s pie isn’t fuzzy at all. (Photo by Flickr user Miho115.)
When I start talking about food and restaurants with people we have recently met, my wife Kathy has been known to emit a sound best described as a derisive snort. If she is in a particularly expressive mood, she might roll [...]
Chewy, no nuts - the best of all? by Flickr user Jeff Kubina.
What’s the perfect chocolate chip cookie like? If you ask that question in a crowd, you best duck.
Thin and crispy? Thick and chewy? Thin and chewy? Puffy?
Then there’s the great divide, the Berlin Wall of Cookieland: Nuts, or no?
A Metafilter thread explores the passion [...]
Favas and chickpeas at their humble best
When the stars make you drool
just like pasta fazool,
that’s amore
- Dean Martin
How many times to you have to order a dish in different restaurants, and be handed a plate full of disappointment, before you decide it’s a loser?
My number’s around four or five, and that’s how many [...]
Tacos pastor in the making, by Flickr user supertina71.
Imagine if the pile of meat above was as big as an elephant. The Associated Press reported yesterday that “a group of businessmen in the northern Mexican City of Chihuahua broke a tasty record Friday, making a hunk of meat on a skewer big enough to serve 24,000 [...]
A touch of heat to ward off the chill.
When I’ve got fresh goat cheese that needs to be used up, one of my favorites is a cherve spread spiked with a Vietnamese chile sauce called Sriracha. (It’s the bottle with the rooster on it that you might see on the table at 99 Fast Food [...]
