A restaurant under construction, by Flickr user leonardo.bonanni.
Anyone who can turn out a few decent dishes at home has heard the suggestion: “Why don’t you open a restaurant?”
Now, I have an ego that makes it touch-and-go whether I can fit in standard elevators. Sometimes I have to take the freight lift. But at [...]
So let’s pretend for a second that I’m not a huge Lord of the Rings nerd. The kind who’s still peeved that that the movie script had Frodo in Osgiliath practically brandishing the One Ring at a Nazgul like a magnesium flare in a coal mine. (”Yoo-hoo, Witch King of Aaaaaang-mar! [...]
The Rava Masala Dosa at Palace of Dosas, as seen at Ahaar
Check out Ahaar: Pleasure & sustenance, a lovely blog with a mastery of Indian food from right here in Buffalo.
Mandira, the main author, started it about a year ago (Ahaar means “a meal” in Hindi.) She’s got loads of recipes and pictures - including [...]
Day 19 - delicious, magical Day 19 by mandydale.
Amanda Kelso was a vegetarian for 12 years when she decided to return to the “dark side” of life’s menu. She didn’t just dabble in chicken breast. No, she dove right into the deep end – having a different kind of pork each day for 30 days [...]
Gingerbread pancakes, by Homesick Texan
She grew up in Austin, Texas, where chicken-fried steak and Texas red (chili, no beans ever) were the stuff of life.
Then she decamped to New York City, where “salsa” comes in a glass jar. As many co-suffers do in times of desperation, she took matters into her own hands. Fortunately, she [...]
Indoor smores, from Savory & Sweet
Here’s to Holloway Constantine, proprietress of Savory & Sweet, who inspired me to stop talking about a food blog and finally get to work on one. (Yes, that’s her first name. It’s a family name. She must hear that question endlessly, but she’s awfully patient.)
What kind of woman is she? [...]
Crain’s Chicago Business Week examines Kraft’s products sporting the “Made with Real Kraft Cheese” logo. You know, the one shaped like a wedge of cheese.
Their conclusion: Many Kraft products bearing the claim contain “no natural cheese.”
Those products “get their flavor from natural and synthetic ingredients that add up to processed cheese - made in a [...]
From Chocolate & Zucchini, listed among Top Food Blogs on the right-hand side, an endearing post about cauliflower gratin that provides a fair explanation of why Clotilde, the site’s proprietress, signed a book contract last year. (More recently the author of Orangette did as well.)
Reading Chocolate & Zucchini can get frustrating, as Clotilde Dusoulier (scroll down [...]
A quick non-food note to congratulate Kelly Sedinger, esteemed proprietor of Byzantium’s Shores, who won the Buffalo News’ short story contest.
The challenge was to take two characters and an event - the assassination of President William McKinley in 1901 - and weave a compelling tale around them. Sedinger’s story is terrific, the best of 125 entires, [...]
