Deciding Where To Eat

Deciding Where To Eat

  THAT GUY Remember when you first started trying to understand wine, the sommelier told you what you were tasting and you believed every word he said. It wasn’t until you built your own palette and started understanding  more you realized everyone was...
Sustainable Seafood and Why It’s Not Working

Sustainable Seafood and Why It’s Not Working

DEATH IS A MESSY BUSINESS In the words of Alex Atalla, death is all around us in the kitchen, eating really is a life and death situation. There is rarely a plate on the dinner table that didn’t start with death, but at what point did we forget our meal was once...
5 Reasons Why Italian Food is The Best

5 Reasons Why Italian Food is The Best

What, Italian food is the best? What about the French? What about the Nordic movement? What about everything that is happening in Spain and Peru? Yeah, yeah I understand how you feel but if you are really honest with yourself and remember some of the most pleasurable,...
A History of Food/About Ryan

A History of Food/About Ryan

This is not another romantic story about a boy who grew-up looking over his grandma’s shoulder as she folded the last soft egg whites into a chocolate soufflé. Nor is it a blog about growing up with a burning desire to chef. When I was a kid I wanted to be a...