"What do Americans eat when they eat out for dinner? That’s the question that inspired us as we designed Season Two of Chef in Residence....

Cobble Hill was the restaurant that started my blogging journey. I'll never forget when I found Cobble Hill. Mom moved to Cedar Rapids...

When I was a budding foodie, I often turned to the Michelin Guide to figure out where to dine whenever I traveled hither or thither. It...

It's hard for me to believe I have been blogging for a couple years and have not written up the restaurant that is probably the one place...

"Different cultures inspire me. Colors inspire me. Travel inspires me. That’s what really excited me when I left Chile the first time at...

I was thrilled to be coming back to San Francisco for my first time in over two years as a little celebration after completing my first...

“At the other places I worked, it was always about the outcome . . . The ingredients were less the focus than the idea. Here, the...

A post from my trip to New York in early February, the same trip where I got to visit Stone Barns for Chef Shola's residency! Craving...

I have been sitting on this blog from an evening in February 2020 for a while, mostly because it seemed kinda crass and tone-deaf to post...

"What we want to eat is, on the hierarchical scale, superior to what we want to do." - Yoruba Proverb I had no intention of being...

I really enjoyed issuing a series of absolutely meaningless "Big Drunk Gay" awards last year, highlighting the very best things I ate,...

I think my lack of dining out has really caught up to me, because as you can probably tell I've been eating at a lot of really great...

One of my favorite idioms is the old "lipstick on a pig" line. It's perhaps put best, however, in one of my very favorite tunes from the...

Yep, Chile! Here I am (or rather, there I was)! Many on social media were surprised to see that I had managed to get out of the country,...

This year has been so bizarre and devoid of culinary wonders (at least those wonders external to the home) that I completely forgot that...

I wound up in Miami far earlier than I expected thanks to California's new shutdown, which sidelined a week-long trip I had planned to...

I gave myself a fairly open itinerary in Utah so I could sort of go where the wind blew me, as it were, originally planning to rent a...

Hello to both of my loyal readers. It has been a bit of time! I am afraid to report I have been a bad chef lately, and since there's not...

Well kids, what can I say? Life is crazy, and my dearth of posts this past month was due in part to my grand adventure in Alaska, yes,...

The fam and I have done our best to be exceptionally conscious of and careful with our behavior during this tough period in our shared...