I am woefully behind on blog posts owing to the end of the semester at Davidson and the ensuing whirlwind travel schedule. I know both of...

Years before I came to understand what fine dining really meant––or rather, what it really could mean––my attraction to the best...

I can't stay away from omakase meals in New York City. My last NYC omakase at Nakazawa just reinforced what I already knew––an excellent...

I am bad at making reservations. I tend to wait to book trips until only a few weeks before, and at that point it's too late to get the...

Charlotte is a budding food city, and a particularly good locale for many varieties of Asian cuisine. The notable exception is...

When I was first preparing to move to Charlotte, I heard all around that South End was the happening-est neighborhood in town. When I...

Certain areas of Charlotte experienced a mass migration of rural Appalachian and Carolina Piedmont populations, as well as formerly...

It's hard to pinpoint a seminal dining experience that made me into the insatiable food lover that I am today, but the closest thing I...

I've always been a staunch defender of northern California's food scene over New York City's, mostly because that's where I learned to...

Sushi omakase meals are a dime a dozen in New York City (or, perhaps more accurately, three grand a dozen). The super-high-end sushi...

The Maine coast has approximately 24,398,423,876,323,907 restaurants serving lobster. This is the land of “lobstah,” especially this time...

Boston is one of those cities I feel bad that I haven't spent more time visiting. I finally got up to Boston to see a dear friend's...

I must admit that I have been pretty bad about exploring my new city and environs and seeing what's on offer. When I had dinner with a...

I hadn't been back to Chicago since my last (brief) visit mid-summer of 2020, when almost everything was shuttered, but my sister and I...

Back in the era of big name European celebrity chefs establishing outpost restaurants, in the heyday of places like the Bellagio, when...

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to visit Mélisse, one of West LA's most storied fine dining destinations, with some regularity, since...

Back when I was starting to realize I wouldn't get a teaching job for Fall 2019, fresh out of my doctorate and settled in Mom's guest...

Stone Barns is starting to feel like a bit of a home. The people, the ethos, and the amazing food––everything about it makes me so joyful...

When I posted my first food photos from Lima to my Instagram story, a friend of mine who is a fellow lover of food and works in the...

Instagram has figured out that most of my life is food/wine, airplanes, music, and cute guys. The algorithms are precise, y'all! Though,...