Another must-have at the new Whole Foods is 365 Sourdough Crackers. There are fewer than 365 crackers in the box, sadly; 365 is WF’s house brand. They’re small, very crispy square crackers with a distinct sourdough flavor. It’s easy to finish a whole box. Buy two. Today I went to IKEA and managed to buy […]
They are trying to bankrupt me. Here are the facts. On Wednesday, a new Whole Foods opened in the Denny Triangle neighborhood, or whatever they are calling it these days. Laurie and Iris and I went to check it out yesterday. The bakery is peculiarly devoid of morning rolls and carmelitas, and they’ve deemphasized the […]
One of my favorite sessions at Worlds of Flavor was the roasting class, featuring roast suckling pig and roast baby lamb. The lamb was cooked by Marco Antonio García. He gestured at the lamb and insisted that you cannot get lamb so young anywhere in the United States, only in Spain. I asked where the […]
It’s been an Italian sort of day, which means I affected an effortlessly elegant look and bribed a public official. Okay, it means I ate a bunch of Italian food. For lunch I grabbed a panini from Delaurenti, whose sandwiches are austere in conception and hugely appealing. I had the Misto, with salami, mortadella, Asiago, […]
Here’s the good news: Harold McGee has a blog. Here’s the bad news: if you read, say, Nina Planck’s Good Food, and got the idea that grass-fed beef is some kind of omega-3-laden health food, McGee is here to school you. The long-chain omega-3s in grassfed beef are present at around 20 milligrams per 100 […]
