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...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the restaurant industry permanently. Many places, regardless of how successful, already operated on...

I'd like to use this opportunity to express solidarity with the protestors speaking out against police brutality and institutional racism...

I have been spending a lot of time longing for the days when we could freely travel and see wonderful new places, and was reminded of my...

I have a few residual blog posts in the bag from February and early March before our culinary world shut down. Will intersperse these...

It made sense at the time for me to chill in the northeast for a while after my guest presentation before heading to San Antonio for the...

It’s difficult for me to remember exactly when my culinary curiosity was piqued. When I was a younger kid, dinner regularly consisted of...

Well folks, we have entered a new year, and even though I am one month late on the new year, it was just over one year ago that I created...

Well folks, the Christmas season is joyful indeed. I successfully executed two gigantic surprises this past season in pursuit of joy for...

I need sushi like I need oxygen. And, my friends, how oxygen-deprived I have been! I pulled a "Steve" and made the decision to wait until...

Hard to believe this is my first post about my home town! I like to think that I know the food scene in Salt Lake better than anywhere...

Purely philosophically, I get tired of neoliberal capitalist enterprises appropriating the things that I care about most. But from a...

Another disadvantage to living in smallish-town Iowa is that my local airport (CID), only fifteen minutes from my residence, is generally...

I have largely been bound to the "sprawling metropolis" of Cedar Rapids in the past several months, biding my time and saving some money...

I have a strange life, as many of you know. The circumstances that lead to this meal are a prime example of how strange that life can be:...

It has been months, hasn’t it? This time, I have no excuse except that I have been sort of in a rut. While it has been nice to be back in...