Beer is a many splendored thing, by Flickr user aixcracker.
As if you needed more reasons to drink fine beer: The Art of Beer, March 7, is an easy way to enjoy dozens of hand-crafted brews for only $20, and raise money for a worthy institution.
The Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, 1201 Pine Ave., Niagara Falls, [...]
Entries from February 2008
February 28, 2008
The art of beer: Niagara Falls, March 7
February 26, 2008
Cheerless Chinese: Golden Duck, Amherst
No one hesitated to grab a slab of scallion pancake.
I’m trying to remember why my family and I ended up at Golden Duck (1840 Maple Rd., Amherst).
Chang’s Garden hadn’t burned down yet, so that wasn’t it. Maybe it was the memory I had of a waiter expertly cutting a Peking duck in the [...]
February 22, 2008
A cheeseburger today: The Great Burger Hunt
My personal bacon cheeseburger is not in the running. Because if it was, it would be a short hunt indeed.
There are probably more hamburgers on Western New York menus than anything else.
In my experience, that has made it the most sinned-against item in the Western New York restaurant repertoire.
So the News has commissioned [...]
February 17, 2008
A hero’s welcome: Esquire’s ‘best sandwiches in America’
It takes a lot of nerve to sit down and write a story that purports to name “The Best Sandwiches in America,” as Esquire did recently.
But that’s fine by me, because it gets people talking, arguing over choices with the passion and nuance normally reserved, around here at least, for the question, “Which [...]
February 13, 2008
Soup success: Corn chowder
Corn chowder, by paul goyette.
Kathy, the wife, has eaten some pretty fancy chocolate, but honestly prefers Hershey’s Kisses.
After cookies, soup is my comfort food.
I go for creamy soups with vegetables in them. Andrew makes a kick butt potato soup with ham in it. But sometimes the ham is stringy and ruins the creamy consistency [...]
February 8, 2008
Land of plenty: Grand Buffet, Amherst
One of three ranks of steam tables now occupying what used to be the Funny Bone. Insert punchline here.
Staggering out of a Chinese buffet, hoping you can get home before the insulin shock renders you too logy to drive, you tend to get philosophical, like a man on Death Row.
“You get what you pay for.” [...]
February 4, 2008
Warmth on my tongue: Rosa’s pickled jalapenos
The crimson specimens among them are the elders, of course, older and mellower in their ripening.
Last week, as the snow was howling sideways outside my office windows, I thought of the pickled jalapenos I made with a batch of chiles from the North Tonawanda Farmer’s Market.
It wasn’t the heat I craved. I like [...]
