Category: Food and Drink

  • The Sausage Life

    Fluorescent cube life getting you down? Do you dream of being your own boss, making your own way, calling the shots? Do you like sausage? A different life beckons Cherie Peterson and Merry Barry. Having created some of the best boutique sausages to ever grace a bun, The Sausage Sisters are moving on and selling…

  • Fair Index

    hey, you got some grass? Saturday’s Fair Index (with apologies to Harpers) Number of Lark-bound old ladies that got stuck in the fergaliscious crowd in front of KDWB: 2 Chances that someone sucking down a shake by the dairy barn would step in dung: 1 in 4 Ratio of fanny-packs to tube tops at noon:…

  • Famous, but not a Grouse

    A colleague likes to talk about the Ivy League football games he went to as a graduate student at Harvard. Apparently they did not sing the Tom Lehrer Harvard fight song (“Wouldn’t it be peachy if we won the game …”); in fact, the crowd’s invective sounds as though it was scarcely more subtle than…

  • Hotdish, Rehabbed

    Seasonally, the time is right for hotdish. The weather is turning cooler, the oven has waited patiently while the grill has had its many days of glory. People are coming off their summer buzz and organizing, whether to boost a local sports team or join a church choir. And in this neck of the woods,…

  • TC Dream Team

    Casey’s too cute to chop onions… Here’s the Big Lesson for the kids on Top Chef: Don’t Believe Your Own Press. The Dream Team of CJ, Tre, Brian and Casey sputtered out last night on the second version of the Restaurant Wars episode. You can’t even say they went down in flames, there wasn’t even…

  • Genius-on-a-Stick

    It’s that time of year when finding cutting edge eats means turning your back on the hoi-polloi and shaking hands with the common man. Forget your foams and chuck your sous vide, it’s all about the stick. The pioneers of fry-technology and stuffing-science are in high demand as we ponder what’s in store for 2007.…