Four glasses of wine into a perfectly warm Oahu evening, as I finished off my cousin’s barbecued flank steak and extra spicy caesar salad, his girlfriend regaled us with the paragon attributes of Kona peaberry coffee, a speech she learned from one of her employers. That employer is Alan Wong, a man with enough opinions [...]
Sizzling bacon, frying eggs, the smell of hash browns and freshly brewed coffee lingering in the air: these scents and sounds epitomize an American breakfast. They’re what I look forward to on a Saturday morning, what I will always associate with starting the weekend off right. The American greasy spoon diner serves as affirmation that [...]
I am somehow amazed at how eager others are to broadcast where they’re eating. The dead horse lying at the junction of food, place and internet has been beaten to glue in the past few year, but there’s something about the virtual, real-time mapping of New York City that continues to irk me.
Big words from [...]
Homer Simpson may have once fallen under the spell of the good morning burger, but only because he wasn’t aware of the good morning pancake.
When Vicky wrote in from Taipei about the staples of Taiwanese breakfast, I was struck with curiosity. Every other account I stumbled upon stoked that curiosity into veritable starvation until I [...]
I take pride in my ability to operate beyond the habit of “point-and-eat” food blogging.
The day Pies n Thighs returned to Williamsburg – opening its doors one block from my front door and mere hours after the Week of Eating In had ended – was no occasion for pride. It was an occasion for nonstop [...]
This is the babka that officially sank my streak of eating in. Say what you will about my lapse in willpower, but if you utter a lowly syllable about the babka, you are banned from my life.
I spent this morning slushing down Bedford for a medical appointment. While trudging back up from the heart of [...]
When people hear the word “whole foods,” I think a cloud of buzzwords typically attached to the phrase makes the concept more obtuse than it needs to be. A whole food is simply a natural food that hasn’t been processed, and thinking about it this way makes it a lot easier to incorporate whole foods [...]
Every so often, I relish poor decisions. This is rarely the case when said decisions involve food and never the case when they involve champagne (though it is always the case when said decisions involve relish).
In a case for rarity, last week’s snowtorious blizzard, which for me capped about a month of intermittent winter illness [...]
My first trip north of Rodeo, CA introduced me to a couple things: what it’s like to be stranded in Ashland when the 5 freeway closes down due to blizzard conditions, and the cultural landscape of the Pacific Northwest that can only be described as alternative. This is the region whence came Starbucks, yet [...]
The chip butty, found mostly in the UK, is a sandwich of chips, a.k.a. French fries, stuffed between two slices of sturdy bread. To be honest, the concept was a bit confusing at first. One cold winter morning, I pondered while munching on the ridiculously satisfying layers of deep-fried golden potatoes, ketchup, bread and mayonnaise: [...]
