For their feature “U.S. and Canada’s Best Places to Eat,”Food and Wine magazine picked the best restaurants in 39 cities, from the big names like New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, to smaller places like Bozeman (it’s in Montana, if you’re curious), Burlington, Des Moines, and Kansas City.
But Baltimore did not make the list.
Now I know Food and Wine couldn’t travel [...]
Archive for January, 2010
5 Ways to Save at Whole Foods
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, tagged Baltimore, harbor east, whole foods on January 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
If you read this blog regularly, you may have noticed that I talk about Whole Foods a lot. When I lived in Queens, I was within walking distance of several natural food stores, but in Baltimore, I don’t have as many options. Whole Foods is now my grocery store of choice.
When I first started shopping [...]
Dashi (Japanese Stock)
Posted in Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged bonito flakes, dashi, Japanese stock, kombu, seaweed on January 25, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you watch Top Chef, you may have heard Leah or Michael explain their dishes by saying they made a little dashi, as nonchalantly as if they had made a peanut butter sandwich. Was dashi a type of fish? The name of a dish? A flavoring? I’ll admit it; I didn’t know.
So I turned to my Food [...]
Food News, January 22, 2010: Restaurant Marketing, Dangers of Salt, Roast Your Own Coffee, Meat-Eating Plants
Posted in Food News, tagged coffee, plants, restaurant marketing, salt, sweet maria's on January 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
In this week’s Food News, restaurants design menus to get us to spend more, the dangers of salt, how to roast your own coffee, and a fun slideshow of meat-eating plants:
Restaurant Marketing: The Guardian explores how restaurants get us to spend more money simply through their menu design. (Here’s an example – high-profit items [...]
6 Food Movies You Should Watch
Posted in Fun Food Bites, Pop Culture, Travel, tagged big night, food inc., gwyneth paltrow, king corn, mario batali, mark bittman, mondovino, spain...on the road again, stanley tucci, tampopo, tony shalhoub on January 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The title of this post is slightly misleading. I’m recommending six food movies, some fictional, some documentaries, and I haven’t seem any of them. But I want to see all of them (and many were recommended on a Chowhound forum so I’m not telling you to watch these completely blindly). Extras bonus: Netflix subscribers can watch the first [...]
Breakfast for Dinner: Open-Faced Waffle, Bacon, Egg, Cheese, and Maple Syrup Sandwich
Posted in Recipes, tagged bacon, Eggs, maple syrup, tofu eggs, vegetarian bacon, waffle sandwich, waffles on January 18, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I went to New York this weekend so I fully intended to find a New York food experience to blog about for today. But even though the city is overcrowded with restaurants and food stores, I couldn’t stop thinking about making a sweet and salty breakfast sandwich, kind of like the McDonald’s McGriddle pancake sandwich [...]
What the Baltimore Ravens Eat
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, Pop Culture, tagged baltimore ravens, baltimore ravens food, billy cundiff, ed reed, joe flacco, ray lewis, ray rice on January 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Happy Purple Friday! Think the Ravens can exorcise their demons and beat Indy on Saturday? Let’s hope so!
To get excited for the game, I wanted to do a post on the Ravens. However, because this a food blog, I have to connect the two – Ravens and eating.
So here we are, talking about what [...]
6 Ways to Improve Your Daily Coffee
Posted in Baltimore, Fun Food Bites, Ingredients, tagged caffeine, coffee enema, coffee tasting, energy drinks, kopi luwak coffee, Red Bull, village learning place, zeke's coffee on January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Good morning to the coffee addicts out there! Wouldn’t it be nice to get more from your bag of coffee, or to learn how to make a better cup of coffee that suits your personality?
Last night, I went to the Coffee, Coffee, Everywhere Coffee! event at Baltimore’s Village Learning Place (a space loaded with [...]
Baltimore Food Events, January and February
Posted in Baltimore, Food News, tagged Baltimore food events, Baltimore Restaurant Week, Royal Blue coffee, zeke's coffee on January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Baltimore has a couple of great food events coming up over the next two months (Gives us something to look forward to during the cold winter, right?):
Coffee, Coffee, Everything Coffee!
Wednesday, January 13, 7-9pm (that’s tomorrow)
Village Learning Place, 2521 Saint Paul Street, Baltimore, MD
Tom Rhodes, the founder and proprietor of Zeke’s Coffee, will give practical tips about [...]
Hot and Sour Soup
Posted in Baltimore, Books, Ingredients, Recipes, Travel, tagged black Chinese vinegar, Chinese food, hot and sour soup, ming tsai, the asian kitchen cookbook on January 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When it’s 20 degrees outside and your heater is set to a cold 60 degrees inside, how can you quickly warm up? (And no, you can’t turn up the heat.) Would you: a) Take a hot shower. b) Turn your hair dryer on at the hottest setting and blast your face. c) Make some hot and [...]
