Category: Food and Drink

A Day For Eaters? … count me in. This weekend the Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota is hosting Grazefest: an event aimed at promoting the health benefits, positive environmental impact, and economic possibilities of pasture-raised foods. And hey, there’s a band! The first half of Saturday is devoted to hot discussion among professional Graziers, but…

It’s a luck day, chums, if you know where to look. I found a very agreeable Cobb Salad. I think that’s very lucky as some Cobb’s can go sadly wrong: not enough bleu cheese, or old nasty bacon, or odd additions like carrots. The Cobb at French Meadow Bakery is lovely. The bleu cheese is…

This is my last dispatch from Denver: #1 Thing to Do in Denver When You’re Hungry. Find Biker Jim’s hot dog cart on the 16th Street Mall, he’s out in front of Palomino. Order a Reindeer Dog. He’ll happily give you a bun with a split alaskan caribou sausage. In the split he’ll caulk a…

Taken in a real live Kwik-E-Mart in Denver! Is there anything more American than a Squishee? My daughter just got back from Spain where she and her host family went to the Grandmother’s house and watched The Simpsons (in Spanish, natch) and then rushed home to watch the same episode again. Whether or not they…

Last night I had a particularly tasty brew. I’m in Denver and while dining at the Denver Chophouse and Brewery, I happened upon their Wild Turkey Barrel Conditioned Stout. After home-brewing the stout, they “cure” it for a time in used bourbon barrels. Being a bourbon girl, and a stout girl, it was like winning…

From the Why Don’t I Make This More Often category: Tuna Poke. Over the past few stifling days, the last thing I’ve wanted to do was fire up Ol’ Bessie and heat up the kitchen. Oh, maybe I should stand in front of the rocket-fueled grill which has withered the leaves in a five foot…