The first food piece I ever wrote was a review of Good Dog/Bad Dog: Sausages For All, in downtown Portland. My friend Brian Covey and I, editors at our school paper (The Cardinal Times, Lincoln High School) were wandering through downtown one night in the 1991-92 era and came across this new place. We were […]
Chocolate Jesus Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, fumed, “It’s an all-out war on Christianity.” Yeah, Christianity had a good 2000-year run until Chocolate Jesus ruined it. I thought of three ways this story could get even better: The hotel claims that they shuttered the exhibit because people kept eating Chocolate […]
Recently I asked, in a post about frozen potatoes: Is there a web site devoted to revealing which convenience foods are good and which are terrible? Still haven’t found it, but I thought of a couple of other convenience foods I can highly recommend. One is polenta in a tube, or as Iris and I call […]
This week’s Culinate column is about oil. At the risk of turning this column into one of those “everything currently in my desk drawer” pages from the early days of the Web, I would like to share which fats I keep on hand and what I use them for, and speak up for lipid […]
As Wendy suggested, I’ve put up a page that duplicates the dinners from the sidebar, so you can ask questions and leave comments. There’s a link to it (“comment”) in the box, or click here. Maybe this will inspire me to be less lazy about planning dinner for the week on Sunday. You’re also welcome, […]