Food: A Solid Burger, Shake and Fries

Food: A Solid Burger, Shake and Fries

by | Apr 7, 2011 | Food + Booze

Even as our world faces a resource-challenged future and a battered economy, it may be seen as reassuring that any danger of Valley residents being denied access to a quality hamburger has been thoroughly averted. Just a few years ago, the burger options—beyond...

Not Julia or Julie

by | Jun 18, 2010 | Food + Booze

Unlike Julia Child, I was not motivated by the frustrating tedium of empty days in France. And unlike Julie Powell, I was not inspired by Julia Child. I was not moved to lift my whisk out of some insatiable desire to whip an egg into a yolky frenzy. Nor was I...
Food: Enough With the Yogurt

Food: Enough With the Yogurt

by | Sep 23, 2010 | Food + Booze

The pressure to eat yogurt in America is out of control. In recent years makers of the tasty snack, once the province of menopausal women and grade-school kids with sack lunches, have been aggressively targeting the minds of the nation’s young and middle-aged...
Canned Beer

Canned Beer

by | May 14, 2010 | Food + Booze

The other day I broke from my normal beer buying habits and sprang for a more potent, more hops-laden India Pale Ale (IPA) that was also a bit pricier. The clerk at the cash register recognized the change in my routine and congratulated me on my “taking a step...
Food: For Sweeteners, A Bitter Battle

Food: For Sweeteners, A Bitter Battle

by | Jun 10, 2011 | Food + Booze

God, what a treat it is. It’s like a dessert that goes on and on. If you’re tired of watching the country wallow deeper and deeper into a diabetes epidemic, the suit now in progress between sugar and corn syrup will be more of a hoot to watch than the...