Our weeklong visit to Lima was to culminate in two blockbuster meals at the two places seen as the very best restaurants in the city, two...

Lima, Peru, a vibrant city of nearly ten million people, has earned a reputation as one of the culinary epicenters of the Americas, if...

Miami, Miami, you've got style! And killer food! Deep in the Design District of the Magic City is an outpost of Michelin-starred Korean...

Seattle is one of the best food cities in the US, if not the world! The combination of the incredible local seafood and west coast...

If I told you the best margarita I'd ever had was at a restaurant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, you would certainly accuse me of at least some...

"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...