This will be one of those “a picture is [hopefully] worth a thousand words” posts. Although unfortunately, you end up getting nearly a thousand words as well. My little digital camera must have been near capacity when we got home last week from five days in Washington D.C. I can’t resist sharing some of the [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 25, 2008
Celebrating Experience
I rarely muster much enthusiasm for restaurant promotions. You know, restaurant-fests the likes of Dine Around Seattle (formerly “25 for $25″), Boston’s Restaurant Week, Dine Out Vancouver. I certainly covered Seattle’s restaurant promotions a lot while food editor at Seattle Magazine. I’m sure they’ve got legs as a means for restaurants to fill seats in low seasons and draw [...]
March 13, 2008
Rediscovering Tater Tots
“You gonna to eat your tots?” – Napoleon Dynamite
I tried making it through the movie Napoleon Dynamite a couple of times. I just never quite got it, the humor and the appeal of this indie flick. But in missing the point of ND, I clearly also missed something of a culinary resurgence that the movie [...]
March 5, 2008
Today’s soundtrack: silence
I know, I know. That doesn’t sound at all earth-shattering. But around here it’s rather novel. I’ve got one of those busy-body brains that doesn’t do too well in pure quiet. There’s most always something playing in the background to keep me humming along through the day.
This morning began with the usual breakfast-time dose of [...]
March 4, 2008
Lunch at Home: Pizza
Ok, I’m just going to come out and say this. I know that as a professional food writer, I’m supposedly above such cursed impulses and wanton indulgences. But I really like pizza. Of all kinds. Preferably delicious, wood-oven, Naples-esque pizzas (see my recounting of pizza in Naples here). But when no pizzaiolo is close at [...]
March 4, 2008
In Print
A few things are starting to surface this week that I’ve worked on in recent months. It’s a funny thing about freelance writing. With the varied lag times between submission and publications, there can be a momentary surprise when something does show up in print.
First, I have a brief piece in the March issue of Coastal [...]
