A Nice Cuppa

Peanut butter and bacon sandwiches. Fried Twinkies. Cheese on a stick. No doubt some of the hedonistic flavors and artery-destroyers that paint the culinary canvas of this nation are less than nutritionally ??? or palatably ??? sound.
But we???ve entered into entirely new territory. We???ve taken a junk food item so ubiquitous it […]

Once upon a time, all the diet sodas in all the land were chock full of saccharine, and all the diet soda drinkers were oblivious to any broken, skittish lab rats strung out in testing facilities with ugly malignancies of all sorts of horridness, spawned from that very same saccharine.
But the saying goes, ???Ignorance is […]

There???s the Earl of Sandwich. The Duke of Earl. And if you???re a fan of NBC sitcoms, ???My Name Is Earl???. But of all the Earls out there, the Grey variety is by far the most ubiquitous ??? and the most delicious, of course. Earl Grey tea is uniquely perfumed, sweet […]

There???s little in the food and beverage world that has not been revitalized in recent years with an ???artisan??? approach. Perhaps this is because revisiting inspired homemade cooking or brewing conjures nostalgia, quality, authenticity, and a certain kind of emotion. We can eat ???artisan??? pizza and imagine little old ladies kneading dough in […]

Oh, Summer, how we loved ye.
And now your glorious heat and sunshine and long lazy days at the beach are starting to fade…
Well, not quite yet. I know we still have Labor Day to get through and that technically the season extends long into September. But I???m starting to sense that ???Fall feeling??? […]

I love a good latte. When I???m drinking an honest-to-goodness, properly crafted latte, I am likely to get caught up in the cup and wax poetic about the delicate balance of flavors ??? the symphony of milk and espresso that waltzes on my tastebuds. Yet, sadly, the latte has become a lost art […]

On a recent episode of HBO???s Entourage, the character Johnny Drama stages a revolt at an espresso bar when the merchant doesn???t honor his ???buy-9-drinks-get-the-10th-free??? card. Ranting and raving amid violent finger-pointing, he reams the guy out for failing to let him pay for his latte with the wallet-sized piece of paper. A tad melodramatic? […]

You know how the old saying goes: bigger is better. And it???s fair to say that this is often true. For instance, in the case of airplane seats. Yet there seems to be a growing adoration these days for diminutive things. There has long been a love for mini bars, […]

Let me begin by saying that I eat in phases.
There was the Baked Potato Phase, the Milkshake Phase (one of my favorites), the Avocado Phase, and, that good old standby, the Cereal Phase (Frosted Flakes are the choice du jour, por favor).
Naturally, that is not to say that these are the only foods I eat, […]

Ah, that rich aroma of coffee, so inviting, so intoxicating, so invigorating to your tired brain and hungry senses as the scent wafts up from???.your feet?
We all know coffee is a great stimulant to drink, sometimes even to eat (when it???s inflicting its jolting powers into ice cream, for instance), but it can have equally […]