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No, Really, Everything is Better With Sriracha
Look. We get it. You like your food HOT! HOT! HOT! and you were the first in your social circle to discover the wonder of the red stuff in a clear bottle with a green spout and a rooster on it. Fine,...
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A Game of Thrones Viewing Party Menu: A Feast of…
Well…not “crows.’ That’s going to be season five at the earliest. Some of you (okay, some of us) have had March 31 circled in blood-red ink on our calendars since shortly after we removed the plastic...
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Celebrity Chef Man-Crush: David Chang
The internet wants me to mean, by “man crush,” a non-sexual attraction of one man toward another man. I find that a bit constraining and maybe even a bit homophobic? When I think of the concept of...
View ArticleThe First Transcendent Moment in My Eating Life
While the journey from super-fussy midwestern teen picking even the smallest of onion pieces out of a lasagna to urban parent with a CSA subscription and a yen for scanning the aisles at the Japanese...
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Adventures in Processed Food Products: Wonky Wonka Ice Cream
I begin with a confession. Despite the CSA subscription, despite the railing against the pervasiveness of fast food throughout the American diet, despite the striving to continually limit the food...
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Food in Fiction: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk
Do not adjust your monitor. This is definitely not Book Riot. As someone who attempted to gain entry to both Riot parties, I managed only to bluff my way past the bouncer (Schinsky!) at the Food Riot...
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Adventures in Processed Food Products: Taco Bell in a Bottle
Ideally, this particular exercise would always begin with hope. I don’t really want to buy something I have no reason to believe will be anything other than awful. Yet, on my last trip to the grocery,...
View ArticleLeave it to Beaver Bums…
At some point in the last several years, people who get paid to talk about sports decided the word “vanilla” was going to be a fun label to slap on something that was a bit staid, plain, and/or boring....
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Toddler Kitchen: Fish Hands…er…Fingers!
Parenting and food. You can certainly do the “food” thing completely outside the job of parenting, but for those of us who’ve opted to rise to the challenge of raising children, the two are firmly...
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Best of the Brews: What’s Hoppenin’ in Washington?
Why is it I find myself beginning so frequently with an apology? I live in Seattle, Washington and have for nearly seven years. My taste in beer was not developed out here, rather in Germany during a...
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BEHOLD! The Mighty Ramen Burger Awaits! (Recipe Included, Of Course)
“Do the dumb things I gotta do…touch the puppet head.” Or, as it were, make/eat the Ramen Burger. If you’ve not yet heard of the latest food-chimera craze getting citizens of New York to stand in line...
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Take, Taste, Toss: If it’s Autumn, it MUST Have Pumpkin and/or...
But first, a quick bit of preemptive housecleaning… You! Yes, you! The one already rolling the eyes, ready to scroll to the comments to show everyone just how bleeding edge you are among the culinarily...
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The ‘Beerification’ of Wine? Where Do I sign Up?
“There is a ‘winification’ of beer going on and we are at the forefront of a new trend – the ‘beerification’ of wine.” Thus spake Ryan Harms, founder of Union Wine Company. Hence…BEHOLD! The winery...
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Chef John Besh’s Family Table Gets Bigger
If the name “John Besh” does not immediately ring the dinner bell for you, what if I tell you he’s the rather good-looking chef with a bit of an “aw schucks” demeanor who has occasionally appeared on...
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No, Really, Everything is Better With Sriracha
While we’re taking some holiday time off to eat and nap and frolic in the snow, we’re re-running some of our best posts of the year. We’ll be back with new stuff Monday, January 6. Look. We get it. You...
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