Every so often, people ask me why I don’t take the time to trumpet this site, since I’m a food writer/professional journalist-type. Usually, the answer I give is that I use this website like an athlete would use a gym in the off-season. That is, when I find myself in between gigs, I populate this site with various words and verbiage in an effort to keep my writing “muscle” sharp. That way, I don’t spend [...]

I think, at long last, we have moved beyond the peak of cupcake worship. We are descending the downward slope, our shoes covered in delicious pink frosting. It’s time to move on to the next big thing in dessert. Don’t get me wrong. I dig on the cupcake as much as the next person. In fact, dare I say my enjoyment of them has been hovering at its apex for quite some time, since my [...]

My wife called me a ninny the other day. She was right to do so. the impetus for her justified name calling was because of that Food List Challenge post that I put up last week. A few hours I sent my thoughts to the eternal vortex of cyberspace, my beloved contributed to the comment section by stating thusly: You realize that you failed because you have actually had some of these items (WITH ME!). [...]

Facebook has made me feel inferior. Let me explain. Mark Zuckerberg’s tool for eventual global domination has a fun little interactive application on its site called The Food List Challenge. If you read this slop, you may have already partaken in its voodoo. Not that I could blame you, of course; who doesn’t love a good challenge, right? If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a pretty simple exercise. After being greeted with the quasi-threatening [...]

A brown patch of dirt sits at the southeast corner of a Brea strip mall on Imperial Highway, just off of the 57 Freeway. Dull, bland, and lifeless, it presents a striking contrast to the bright and shiny tropical-themed chain restaurant that proudly stands a few paces west. There is confirmation that the boring thatch of brown will soon disappear soon, and will be replaced by the fresh bones of a modest yet burgeoning chain [...]

Okay, so I was totally planning on putting together a legitimate post Thursday night. Sure, I had other writing assignments that I was working on, which has pretty much become a recurring theme in my life (yay!), but I had an evening to myself at home, where I could just sit down and crank out something that landed somewhere between the poignant and the absurd. I had a few ideas batting around in my head [...]

So the whole pink slime controversy caused an uproar a few weeks ago. Probably made a bunch of us squeamish, too. I know the images of the stuff that started cropping up around the internet were not exactly pretty visuals. There’s one photo of the slurry that particularly grossed me out — a shot of a thick, snakelike tube curling over itself inside a box, looking very much like square carton of strawberry soft serve. [...]

I have a new idea for a drinking game. All you have to do is turn on a competitive cooking show like “Chopped” or “Cupcake Wars” and take a shot every time someone mispronounces a food item or ingredient. Sounds great, right? I’m sure it does to some of you. Now, before you run off to reach for that bottle of discount tequila that you mysteriously have lurking about in the back of your liquor [...]

So I’m watching this program on The Travel Channel Sunday morning in real time, just to provide my hearty breakfast of Golden Grahams and a cup of coffee some background noise while my wife gets ready for the day upstairs. As the show segues into commercial time, the TV blasts me with the kind of cacophony that can only come from a network whilst promoting a new show. My eyes focus on the screen just [...]

Yeah, so I had a little bit of an issue with my website over the last few days, where my server wasn’t recognizing the website as actually active or some such jargon. I don’t know all the details in terms of tech jargon, so I’m not going to pretend to sound like I know what the heck I’m talking about here. It would be rather pointless and probably end up making me sound stupid. Well, [...]