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Digest: Dietgeist gets some props, farm-to-table roadblocks
Los Angeles Times: At last, someone else recognizes what we've been preaching for months — a real food revolution is in the works. Dubbing this dietgeist the "Summer of Food," Regina Schrambling details the "choir of disparate voices [that] has been sending
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Salumi Part I: We discover Salumi
It starts like this... The Butter Bitch and I are driving home from work late one evening in early May. Both of us officially work on the east side of Lake Washington and have worked nearly 12 hours. The sun has set, but traffic is very light at this time of night. Neither of us wants to cook and
Cafe Flora – A Place for Locavore Vegetarians
A few weeks ago, when Seattle had just joined the rest of the country in the Land of Sweltering Heat, Man of La Muncha and I made plans to have dinner with M. and K., friends we hadn't seen in a while. After much emailing, we settled on Cafe Flora
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Restaurant roundup: Tomatoes in the ‘hood, sweetbreads in VA, and grass-fed filet mignon in DC
I've had three excellent meals out in the last few weeks, all concocted from fresh, locally sourced ingredients. One was served at low tables in a parking lot in Oakland where all the guests sat on cushions and the wine was BYOB — my first-ever encounter with the underground dining experience known
Carne de Vaca Local
So Sir Loin and I are on vacation in Mexico, near Tulum. It's about two hours outside of Cancun, and they've developed it to be a sort of anti-Girls-Gone-Wild environment. Spring Break for grown-ups. Everything is eco this and eco that. (We stayed in an eco-hut with no electricity and brackish water,
Local in the ‘Hood
For those Austinites that are interested in eating at establishments that make use of locally grown food, I suggest two like-minded, yet atmospherically different restaurants: Casa de Luz and Kerbey Lane. Casa de Luz -- located in South Austin and tucked away on
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Pub Grub in Seattle
Seattle is a town of grey days, damp nights, coffee, and beer. While fair Portland to the south has more brewpubs per capita than anywhere in the world, Seattle has a thriving pub culture that is reminiscent of Great Britain. Seattle doesn't have many brewpubs--that is, pubs that make their own beer
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Drinking (and eating) locally in Arizona
Last week, I had to spend a week in Tucson, Arizona to attend a conference for work. Since MolM and I have good friends in Tucson, I opted to extend my visit, spend the weekend with R. and P., and check out Tucson in the company of locals rather than from the lofty environs of the resort where the conference
Lunch at the Chuck-a-Rama
For Memorial Day weekend, I accompanied the Man of La Muncha to Boise to visit his family. On Monday, before taking me to the airport to head back to Seattle (Man of La Muncha had driven down, and was planning to drive back later in the week), we all went to the Chuck-a-Rama. What
